First post of this series, with longer explanation, here.
You can choose any number of siblings, any number of boys/girls. This might be TOO broad in scope and, as we play, we might come up with better guidelines. But for now, the idea is that we are imagining a little sibling set of children (they do not have to be our own children), and all of their names are going to start with the same letter, and we will just see how things go from there. As before, you can say as much or as little as you like about your decision-making process, and you can choose multiple sibling sets (“This is what I’d choose for two girls, this is what I’d choose for three boys, this is what I’d choose for one boy and one girl…”) or just one—whatever is most fun / whatever you have the time and energy for on that particular day. I liked the idea some people had of re-naming their actual children with matching initials. (I am not going to attempt that with the more difficult letters.)
Today we work on the letter Y. When we played the previous game with Y, I chose Yvonne for a girl and Yates (in honor of Sally Yates) for a boy, and I like those fine as a sibling set: I can see it either as an advantage or as a disadvantage that the Y-sound is not pronounced the same. If I WANTED to have matching starting sounds, I would be pretty happy with Yasmin and Yates. I wanted to come up with more sibling sets, but there are so few Y names.
Yeardley for a girl, I’m stumped for a boy. Maybe Young or Yoel?
Six names – two girl-coded, two boy-coded, two gender-nonspecific – that I could see myself actually maybe choosing for actual babies to build a sibset. (To be fair, Y names are not my favourite and I might not actually choose any of these in real life…)
Yaritza
Yvaine
Yehiel
Ylli
Yanick
Yona
I’m going to look at my names from the first game and see if they’re a B/G match, then do GG, BB.
Yvaine / Yardley – love it!
Yvaine / Yuzu (my kindy kid had a classmate by this name – it’s a fruit in Eastern Asia and it wore so well)
Yardley / Yates
Yeesh, y is hard.
Yara and Yorick work for me.
Though Yulia, Yacob and Yosef seem to go together too.
Yadira and Yancy
Ylvi & Yvette
Yves and Ysobel
Yancey for a girl, and Yondu (like the Guardians of the Galaxy character) for a boy.
Yasmine and Yates!
Yves for a boy. though it’s nice for a girl too. Yarrow for a girl.
Yarrow and Yva, or
Yves and Yara
Yacob and Yasmine/Yasmin
Yvie & Yates
I like Yarrow or Yara for a girl, but most of the boy names I like are either coded heavily for cultures that aren’t mine (Yakov, Yusuf) or sound way more preppy than I would prefer (Yale, Yeardley, York, Yates.) Those also make a weird sibset.
I think in the end I’d choose Yarrow and York: a plant and a place where it could grow.
I don’t know if I can do this one. I feel like a y pair is bordering on gimmicky. (Whereas an M or C pair could just be two nice names). A parent would have to put some effort into finding two Y names by chance :)
But as it is the game…
Yvainne & Yorick (and I would lean in with the pretentiousness of it all with middle names like Wilberforce or Thomasina).
I think the main trouble is that lots of Y’s are slavic or arabic and I’ve got no right to either culture so I feel they would be out.
York is also ok – though not with Yorick. York and Yale is a class betrayal. Yvainne and Ysobel would be equally problematic so at least I’d have something to talk about at dinner parties :) So I’m settled
b/g Yorick & Yvainne
g/g Yvainne & Ysobel
b/b Yorick & Yale
Yoliette, which is a variation of my own name. Yomary and Yamil, which are the middle names of my siblings.
Random number generator gave me 2 kids, 1 boy and 1 girl
Yarrow and Yves (very unusual names with nature meanings)
or
Yule and York (snappy, offbeat, nickname-proof names)
I know a woman named Yolanda whose ?3 or 4 siblings are all named with Y or Y sounding names. I don’t know if I would use them, but it struck me that her mother took on this very challenge many years ago. :)
Ugh, this letter. Naming two boys and two girls hits its first hurdle, lol.
I like Yvainne, Yvette, and Yvonne but wouldn’t use any in combination because they’re too matchy. So I suppose my MIL’s name, Yolanda, will do for the second. Although I would never use her name in real life for perfectly petty reasons.
Yorek and Yardley for boys, though I think Yardley isn’t really a style match. Today’s naming style is “the letter Y.”
Yorek, Yolanda, Yardley, and Yvette
Zachary, Zelda, Zane, and Zoe
For this letter I think I will have to adopt two little girls from overseas because the Y names I like best are not from my culture.
Yasmin and Yelena
Yareli, Yoanna & Yvo