It's just a big pet peeve of mine,
Emilia and
Julia are the exact level of similar as my favorites
Dorothea and
Althea are and I'd never use both of them.
Josephine and
Delphina are also too similar. But truthfully even using two first names starting with the same letter mildly grates at me - unless they all start with the same letter - but only mildly so I'd probably be okay with say a sibset of
Arthur,
Kieran, and
Aurora if those were the names we loved the most.
When half of the name is the exact same I'd never feel comfortable with that but everyone has different opinions on these sorts of things. I also am going to avoid siblings with overly similar nn's, even borderline similar nn's like
Fiona "Fi" and
Dorothea "
Thea" might be too similar.
Rowan and
Aurora nn
Rory are too similar because of the nn
Rory.
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Favorite Names:
Vivian,
Fiona,
Sabrina,
Aurora,
Hazel,
Josephine,
Delphina,
Dorothea,
Althea,
Artemis, Citrina,
Frida,
Maeve,
Luna,
Iris,
April,
Marguerite, Cascadia
Ciaran,
Rowan,
Brendan,
Malcolm,
Felix,
Robin,
Julian,
Tristan,
Magnus,
Arthur,
Adrian,
Cedar,
Cedric,
Xavier,
Connor,
Silas,
Gavin