{"id":15528,"date":"2021-08-14T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T12:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=15528"},"modified":"2021-08-14T09:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:32:50","slug":"our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2021\/08\/14\/our-favorite-baby-name-sibsets-starting-with-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Baby Name Sibsets Starting with V"},"content":{"rendered":"

First post of this series, with longer explanation, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time we are not just listing our favorite names starting with a letter, as we did before: we are forming SIBSETS.<\/strong> You can choose any number of siblings, any number of boys\/girls, any number of sibsets. 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.)<\/p>\n

Today we work on the letter V. When we played the previous game with V<\/a>, I liked Veronica and Vanessa and Verity and Victoria and Vivian for girls, but had a harder time with boys: I liked Vaughn, Vernon, Victor, Vince, but none as much as I like the girl names.<\/p>\n

But because there ARE four boy names, I am going to pretend I am forced to rename my existing children using V names. I choose Vernon, Vaughn, Veronica, Victor, and Vince, in that order. Veronica\/Victor are the twins, and I like the way the two names share the snappy hard-C sound as well as the V. (I DON’T like the way it keeps making my brain glitch and think the girl-name is Victoria.) I wouldn’t normally put Vernon and Veronica in the same sibling set, but desperate times etc.<\/p>\n

If my kids were instead four girls and one boy, I would name them Vanessa, Vivian, Vaughn, Veronica, and Verity. I’m pairing Vaughn\/Veronica for the twins because I like the similar vowel sound of vaughn\/ron. I had trouble with the name for the youngest, because I would rather use Victoria than Verity, but Victoria is so similar in sound\/letters to the Veronica right before it; so then I thought, not only is Verity a different set of sounds (even though the Ver-\/Ver- of Veronica\/Verity LOOKS similar), but also by the fifth child I’d be more willing to steer off my usual style path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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