First post of this series, with longer explanation, here.
This time we are not listing our favorite names starting with a letter, as we did before: we are forming SIBSETS. 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.)
Today we work on the letter T. When we played the previous game with T, I liked Theodora, Theodosia, Thomasina, Temperance, Tilda, and Tess for girls; Teague, Thatcher, Thompson, Truman, Turner, Tolliver, Terrence, Terry, Ted, Torin, Tully, Tobin for boys. I like Tolliver and Terrance with the longer girl names such as Theodosia and Thomasina; I like Teague and Truman with names like Tilda and Tess; I also like Ted and Tully with Tilda and Tess. For two sisters, I like the idea of going big: Theodosia and Thomasina. But I wonder if I would ACTUALLY choose Tilda and Tess. For two brothers, I like Terry and Ted, or maybe Ted and Tully. I also like combinations of the boy surname names: Thatcher, Thompson, and Truman; Turner, Truman, and Thompson. For one boy and one girl, I like Terrence and Thomasina, or Ted and Tess.
If I were renaming my five kids, I would choose Torin, Ted, Terrence/Terry and Thomasina/Tess for the twins, and Tolliver. I don’t like that my secondborn would have a nickname name, but this is a game and I am going to pick the names I like best for each kid without trying to meet all my usual preferences. (If I WERE trying to meet my usual preferences, I get stuck because I’d want to name him Tobin, which I would never do right after Torin. So then I’d pick Tully—but that for me would probably rule out using Terry for the next boy.)
For a boy/girl pair, Thea and Thatcher. For two boys, Thornton and Thoreau, or maybe Teague and Tate. Two girls, Thelma and Tess or maybe Torrance and Tatum.
If I renamed my kids: Thomas (Tommy), Tallulah (Lula), Tabitha (Tabby), Tessa (Tess) Theodosia (Teddy) and Tatiana (Ana).
Tallulah & Tristan
Tallulah & Thisbe (Lulu & Bea!)
Tristan & Teague
Thorsten and Theadora (Thea)
Continuing with the 2 girls 1 boy, my picks are Tess, Thea and Trevor.
Three girls: Trilby, Teagan and Tayvia
Theodora “Thea”
Thomasine “Tess”
Tobias “Toby”
I’m going to rename my actual kids, too: Theo & Tess.
I can rename my own kids with T! My hubby hasn’t liked any of my T name suggestions so we have no T kids.
Girls: Tatum, Thea, Theone (tay-nee), Trinity
Boys: Thaddeus, Tag, Talbot, Thatcher, Trig and Titus.
Ok! So sticking with my general theme of my existing two children plus imaginary (and thus I can pick boy or girl seen as this kid doesn’t actually and will never exist, ha) third kid.
Tess
Theodore (Ted)
Except that rules out Thea… hmm.
Ok!
Tess
Tolliver (Tolly)
Thea
Toby, Tessa and Thomas!
I love this game, as I get to use my “almost” names! Tom was our boy name for Child #3, and I have always liked Tessa, but we already have a Jesse…
Thus, renaming my own kids (B-B-G), I am choosing: Teddy, Tom, & Tessa
Tariq and Tahir, always high on my list of names that make my heart scintillate, though not appropriate for my Irish Protestant spawn.
Thomas and Tristan/Tristana. (The last I ran across in a fantasy novel; I like it :) )
Teagan (girl) and Thatcher (boy)!
Thalia and Thatcher
Thea and Tessa
Tessa and Theodore (Teddy)
Theodore (Teddy) and Thomas (Tommy)
I like T!
I’d rename mine (4 boys, 3 girls) like this:
Tate, Tully, Tatiana, Thaddeus, Tessa, Teodora, Thomas
Two girls: Tallulah & Tulip
I have 3 boys and my second already has a T name: Tobin.
So I’d go with Titus, Tobin, Trevor.
I love both Tatiana and Titania but could not use both of them together. So I would choose Tatiana because I think it’s the more wearable.
I also love Tabitha, so there are my sisters: Tabitha and Tatiana, Tabby and Tati. I also think Thalia would work well in this sib set.
For brothers I’m not sure. I might go with something classic like Thomas. I do rather like Tyrone. I also like Roman names like Tiberius and Titus but think they’d be over the top for real life. Maybe Tobias nn Toby would bridge the gap.
Final decision : Tabitha, Tatiana, Thalia and Tobias nicknamed Tabby, Tatti, Tali and Toby.
Well, this turns out to be harder than expected. Thaddeus is my favorite boy name, but it feels like a bad fit with most other ‘T’ names, especially for girls. And girl names starting with T all fall into the “I would love that name … on someone else’s children” category. Naming a BGBG set, then, I came up with
Tobias, Thalia, Tristan, and Trinity.
Of those, I think Trinity is a bit of an outlier, but I like that they all have the hard T beginning, but end in different sounds.
T
If 5 boys:
1. Theodore James
2. Thatcher John
3. Thompson Ben
4. Tierney Andrew
5. Teagan Peter
Nicknamed:
Teddy
Thatch
Tom
Tierney
Teague
If 5 girls:
1. Theodora Kate
2. Talulah Sarah
3. Tamsin Dorothy
4. Tillie Elizabeth
5. Trixie Madeleine
Nicknamed:
Teddy
Lulu
Tamsy
Tills
Trix
If renaming my own children:
Theodore (Teddy), Talulah (Lulu), and Trixie (Trix)