Funny, I thought this was a topic only I seemed to care about. I always find it a bit strange when people marry someone with their siblings name. My brother has a very common name, but I’ve only once gone out with someone with that name. I found it odd, if not icky, and I called him by his internet nickname the whole time I saw him. (About three weeks, kind of.)
I asked my (Franco Ontarian) boyfriend if that sort of thing would bother him. Well his sister has a common French name, and he has dated women with that name, but she had a nickname that he always called her anyway. His sister married a guy with the same name as his next oldest brother, and named her son half of my boyfriends name. (double-barrelled hyphenated name…the nephew got the second half of the name). To make matters worse, his father has a name that is also a woman’s name… he admitted dating a girl with that name WAS weird… I have cousins who married girls with the same first name, (and to confuse the issue the sister didn’t marry until quite late in life… about 20 years after her brother, and has always kept her maiden name) so there’s quite the joke about the two “susan smiths”.
Actually, the funny thing was there was a guy I might have gone out with with the same name as my brother, but everytime we met, I could never remember his name. He’d tell me it, and I’d say… oh I should remember that! Its the same name as my brother’s. By the third time I met him and blanked on his name he reminded me of that fact… Although he was cute and I liked him, I think somehow got the idea I wasn’t interested…
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Not a problem. One of my favorite ex’s (we still see each other now and then) shares my sister’s name. We were never serious enough to consider marrying - we were more like good friends that liked to mess around. But we always had fun picturing her being another Laura Bus Guy.
One of my first serious GFs had the same first name as my sister.
I never even gave it a thought.
::: Shrug:::
Thinks about it now.
Nope, doesn’t bother me at all.
I dated a Shannon and am still friends with her. Not an issue. My daughter is another matter, I would have difficulty getting it on with a Claire, ewww.
My sister has a really unusual first name, and no woman, no matter how beautiful or charming she was, would be able to remove the association. Saying her name during sex, for one thing, would be way too weird.
Well, while the thought of calling out either of my brothers’ names during sex squicks me out I am lucky in that neither of them have very common names. That being said, my ex (the father of my eldest child) has the same middle and last name as my mother. Coincidentally (but having nothing to do with my mother – the only way I would honour her would be…uhm, I never would, nevermind) my daughter has that same middle and last name. She has 2 middle names, though, so the middle name she shares with her father is one off from the last name. I hope that makes sense. I guess it doesn’t bother me so much, since I haven’t had anything to do with my mother since before that ex and I were a couple. Never came into play about how I felt about him. Note – while they share the same last name (and the same spelling) there is no chance in hell that they could be related.
It wouldn’t bother me. My brother has a common name; in fact, he shares a name with my SO’s brother. I actually don’t often call my SO by his given name, and certainly not during sex, so I don’t think his having the same name as a member of my family would be weird.
I do, however, think I would be too weirded out to date someone who shares my name. I have a unisex name that is more commonly used for males (I’m female). Would we be known as “the [Myname]s?” That’s so fricking cheesy! I couldn’t do it. Then again, if I met someone who was otherwise a good match for me, and we happened to have the same name, I might feel differently. I tend to be open-minded about this sort of thing.
My cousin married a girl with the same first name as his sister. As his sister hasn’t married and his wife took his surname, they now have the exact same name (except one is a Mrs). It can be a little confusing, but when we’re talking about them we generally refer to them as “our Sharon” and “Pete’s Sharon”, or “Sharon Surname” and “Sharon Maidenname”.
My Grandfather’s sister-in-law was known til the end of her days as Joyce Maidenname by the family in order to distinguish her from their sister Joyce. That one amused me as she was Joyce Marriedname for a good 50 or 60 years, compared to her sister-in-law who married out of the family name in her 20’s.
My friend’s sister Lesley married a man whose father’s name was Lesley. That one always seemed like it must be a little weird for all involved, and it must have felt a little strange to share first and surname with her father-in-law.
Sure - I dated a man with the same name as my younger brother for several years. My sister’s third and fourth husbands had the same name as our other brother.
It didn’t seem strange because my brothers’ names were something like number one and two on the list of most common boys names in the decade we were all born, so it seemed like half the guys we grew up with had those names.
I once had a girlfriend with the same name as my sister. It honestly never occurred to me as an issue until just now. One of my uncles married a woman with the same name as his sister. Again, it was never mentioned.
