{"id":15432,"date":"2021-05-29T08:26:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2021-05-29T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T12:26:27","slug":"our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/05\/29\/our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Baby Name Sibsets Starting with Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe this will not be as fun as the alphabet game we were playing before, where we pretended we were naming a fresh new baby and the name had to start with a particular letter. But I was at work the other day, and there were two books near each other, one that mentioned a Hazel and one that mentioned a Harriet, and it occurred to me that Hazel and Harriet would be a splendid sister set for someone who didn’t mind repeating an initial—and in fact, many parents repeat an initial on purpose. So let’s just TRY this and see if we like it.<\/p>\n

The rules are much less strict for this game, because it is so much more complicated than before. This time 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.<\/p>\n

For this first attempt, let’s start with the letter Z. When we played the previous game with Z<\/a>, I chose Zinnia for a girl and Zeke for a boy, and I do like those in a sibling set. I also like Zinnia and Zachariah. Zinnia and Zipporah is cute for two girls—though I’d much rather be named Zinnia than Zipporah, so that gives me an unbalanced feeling about it. For a very different style, I think Zachary and Zoe are nice together, and I like Zeke and Zelda. I had trouble making brother sets; Z is such a limited letter. But that makes it nice for a starter letter, as we are getting used to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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