Unfair Sibsets

[genevieve!]

There are a lot of unfair sibsets out in this world. You know, when one sibling has an awesome or beautiful name, and the other one has a boring or ugly one? Like, when one sister's named Juliet and the other Olga?
I know a pair of twins named Starling and Alison "Ali"--Starling always complains because everyone thinks her name is weird. Then there was Anthony, Angela, and Marian. Poor Marian got the M-rated name while her brother and sister got A+ names!

Sometimes life isn't fair. Do you know any real-life sibsets like this?

[elisabeth rae]

I know an Anastasia; her siblings all have top 5/top 10 names.

[arielladreams]

Carmen and Jane, Jane's having a bit of a renaissance, but back then it was 'plain Jane'.

[kala_way]

With all the sibset threads out there I think this issue is more important.

To me it's less important if siblings names match or have similar origins or letters and more important that they are equal in strangeness and in beauty.

[genevieve!]

Kala_way, that's exactly what I think! I would never name my kids two names starting with the same letter...that just screams tacky.

[kala_way]

Kala_way, that's exactly what I think! I would never name my kids two names starting with the same letter...that just screams tacky.

I wouldn't do it personally either, but it doesn't bother me in small numbers and when you actually really love the names.
I have a friend with an Aidan and an Ashley, she loved both names and she wasn't trying to match them it just turned out that way.

When it's really tacky and it bothers me is when you plan to have 6 or 7 or 15 kids and have to start spelling things wrong and being kreeaytyv in order to keep your set working.

[strawberry shortcake]

I know of a sibset of Amelie, Oscar, Eleanor and...Gracie-Mai. No joke. I feel sorry for Gracie-Mai, her siblings have beautiful names!

Also know of siblings named Braiden, Evie, Alfie and Harriet. It just sounds weird.

[genevieve!]

Aw, poor Gracie-Mai.
About kreeativ spellings: That reminds me of the Duggars. You know, they have the show 19 Kids and Counting? They had to get really kreeativ, they have 19 kids whose names start with J!!
I got this from answers.com:
Joshua James
Jana Marie
John-David
Jill Michelle
Jessa Lauren
Jinger Nicole
Joseph Garrett
Josiah Matthew
Joy-Anna
Jedidiah Robert
Jeremiah Robert
Jason Michael
James Andrew
Justin Samuel
Jackson Levi
Johannah Faith
Jennifer Danielle
Jordyn-Grace Makiya
Josie Brooklyn

I don't think I would be able to stand having a Jedidiah and a Jeremiah in the same house!!! And they have the same middle name!

[kala_way]

seriously!
You'd already feel lost in the crowd with so many.
How on earth can she remember their names on the fly when they're all so close!?!

[auroradawn]

Jedidiah and Jeremiah are twins. Way too matchy for me, but a lot of people seem to like it that way! I wonder if they're nicknamed Jed and Jerry? That would help...
It's important to remember that there may be more than meets the eye to seemingly unfair sibsets. Tastes differ, and maybe the parents were totally in love with every name they chose and that was the most important thing to them; or maybe, once Eleanor, Sebastian, and Georgia had arrived, grandmother Linda died and they wanted to honor her when their next little girl was born. Sometimes you never know!