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"I guess the other thing is that my other kids are likely to have quite formal full names as fns and will all have nns..."

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That would be a problem for me, and possibly for the child who stands out.
I like sibling names to be equal, not similair really, but equal in style, weight...
A woman I know was told by a friend when she expected her second child that sibling names should be "the same". She had an Emma, and named the second girl Elsa, because of what her friend had said. I think that's terrible, they're too much alike, and Emma would not be hard to pair with an equal girl name.
(It also shows how a lot of people don't really think too much about names. She didn't have an input herself, or a list of names she liked, just "my friend said..." Odd.)

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So I don't mean equal like "the same". I guess what I mean is that if I met sisters Beatrice and Rory I would really question the parents. They're not equal.

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So, as much as I love Tessa, I think her sisters should have less formal names too. Nora is a full name to me, and nice with Tessa. Ella (for example) isn't a full name to me, but Ella and Tessa could go together as that type of names. Or her sisters could just have shorter
less traditional names.
Tessa and Katherine - no
Tessa and Kate - yes
Tessa and Stella? Yes
Tessa and Lily - yes

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I think you get my point, I'm rambling.
It is a dilemma though, I'm glad that my kids are also just hypothetical for now.
I could discuss this all night, because I really dislike NNs as given names. But Tessa... is so beautiful. It is amazing what one letter can do. The Tessan version I mentioned ( kind of like Tess-Anne) is garbage to me. Drop the N and wow! There's Tessa.

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Is there a risk of Tessa becoming really trendy?