I don't have a strict rule (unlike Fifi-trixibelle ) when chosing baby names about not repeating letters but it is something that I would like to avoid.
Anyway DH and I were talking baby names this evening and all the boys names we like start with T and all the girls names we like start with an A. Our DD's name is Tia Adele
So obviously for some random reason we are drawn to these letters.

They are:
Araminta
Autumn
Alaska
Accalia

Tadhg / Tiege / Tige
Tallis
Talon / Tallin
Tobias

Is there any particular letter you seem to like more than others? What is it, and what are the names? Inspire me...

I can't inspire you, but I gravitate towards names with 'L' in them. Either starting with L or with L in the middle.

Our last name starts with L though, and is only one syllable - names with L in them can sound a little odd against our surname, but they still top the list.

DD is named Holly which I think sounds fine with an L surname..

But, now every new name I think of has an L in it and that doesn't necessarily make for the greatest sibset!

Elly
Lucy
Elise
Ally
William


ooh, seems I also like names ending with 'y' LOL

For me a lot of the girls names i like end in 'a'. Also, add an 'a' to the end of a name that I don't like or think it's average and it suddently becomes an awesome name (think sophia, georgiana)! A few 'A' names I like are...

Arianna
Keira
Clara
Sienna
Sophia
Eloisa
Georgiana
Katiana
Trianna
Annika
Isabella

I have always seemed to have been drawn to 'a' and 'e' names, We have a Tia, Evie and Isla and with each pregnancy i have wanted another 't' name lol.

I like the letter N

So

Nina
Nerida
Nicole

Nathan
Nick

For me I seem drawn to girls names starting with "A". These were on my short list:

Avaline (pronounced Ava-lean) - ended up being the winner as it can be shortened to Ava.
Aurelia
Ada
Adele
Adara
Anna
Annika
Amara
Adaline
Analia
Anne

Good luck

I love A girls names:

Amelia
Alice
Alexandra
Anna
Amelie
Aimee


and J boys names:

Jarrod
Jacob
Joshua
Jonah
Jeremy
Joseph

Yes, I am always drawn to L

Luca
Lucas
Lucy
Leah

etc..

Girls, not really although I have 7 names on my list and 3 begin with E.

Boys, I have a thing about L****n names for some reason. Lleyton, Lawson, Lincoln, Leven...I just love them all but they're so similar I can only use one.

If you have ARAMINTA on your list as your top contender, then you need no inspiration! What a gorgeous, cool, seldom heard, feminine, fantastic name.

I will have serious name envy if you end up using it!

Obviously S names (see sig) but unfortunately DH wouldn't go for a 3rd S name so we liked 2 G names and ended up with one of them.

Another vote for girls' names starting with A

Some of my favourites are
Alice
Amelia
Amelie
Anna
Annabelle
Annika
Arabella
Ava

I don't seem to have a set pattern with boys.

I am drawn to names with the letter X in them for some reason!

M e too crankbee, I have an Alex and a Max and I also love the name Felix

For some reason I seem to be fond of girls names to do with the sky, DD is Celeste and I also love the name Aurora

My girl list had lots of A names though DD didn't end up with one of them.

My boy list is so short, there isn't enough for a pattern to emerge!

I don't need baby names yet. I just think its funny how all the names we like start with the same 2 letters!

BMJ - Have been loving Araminta for a while now, but cant seem to find a nice middle names for it. I would like something beginning with J so I can nickname her either Mintie or AJ, but I can't find any J names I love yet and Jane is too boring next to it. So hard!

ETA - DH just suggested Jacinta as a middle name. Yes honey, we will name our daughter Araminta Jacinta!

Not particularly, but i found when we started thinking of names for DD2, every single one doubled up a letter with one of the other kids.

We already had a girl's name for her, Flora...which obviously doubles up with Finnegan.

All of our potential boy's names start with either E, A or L.

Delli - what about Joy as a middle name?

Araminta Joy

I do seem to like quite a few 'A' names for girls, even though I didn't actually use one.

Anna
Alice
Allegra
Aurelia
Anouk
Amelia

I also do like a few 'I' names, one of which I did use.

Isobel
Ingrid
Inès
Isotta

I love a hard C (like K) - Caedance etc.

All ours are vowels (no 'o' though), and 'J'

In order: I, E, A, J, J.

We are finished having children now, but other names we liked but aren't going to use were another A and another E.

It wasn't a rule though, they were just the names we liked, and now to me 'J' is like a vowel . I seriously couldn't imagine naming a child anything but a vowel or J now.

I would have said T and F off the top of my head but then I looked at my fave names collection. Girls have most in the M's and none in the K's. Boys no letter stands out, some letters only one or two. Which I think says more about what my pool of names start with rather than my letter preferences. The letter M in isolation doesn't grab me anyway so I would say for me the initial letter is of interest but doesn't account for a whole lot.

I love girls' names starting with C and A. I could easily name 6 or 7 daughters with either letter and be very happy with them all.

Boys' names, I don't really have a letter with more favourites.

We are TTC#4 and at the moment i am loving an L names for both boy and girl! Only thing is if we succeed and end up using the L our children's names will spell SELL

I like names starting with D, especially Daniel. I really wanted to name B#2 that but DH older brother died in 2002 and wanted to name him after him. I can live with Jason

We seem to like C,J,K names.

I am CJ.
DH is KJ.
DD is JL.
and we have two dogs K and C.

I like vowels, C, H, J, S, T.

Couldn't tell you why.

I like T names for boys as you can tell. I didn't want to have them start with the same letter but we loved DS2s name so much that we had to. PS Tallas (Tallis) is a great name by the way

We seem to gravitate towards T names too. Our first born is a T, so we have steered away from it for any other first names.

Other T boys for your list:
Tegaue
Tasman
Tamar
Torren

ETA - whoops, that should have been Teague

Can I add a sound? I really can't stand names that begin with the "Sh" sound. They all seem a tad uncouth to me.

I tend to like 'T' names for boys and 'C' or 'L' names for girls


I second that!

I am drawn towards names with the combination 'th', be it at the begin or part way through. I don't, for some reason, like girl's names that begin with 'A'.

Theodore
Anthea
Thea
Beth
Nathaniel

Yay another Tallas/Tallis. I've never met another one!

I love V names for girls:

Violet
Vivien
Veronica
Viola
Violette
Victoria
Verity
Vesper

Neither have I! Your boys are gorgeous BTW

M i love Miles (DS) Millicent and Magnus. Im still gutted i couldn't use Millicent as i already had a Miles and Magnus wont get used now as we had a girl - ahhh well, i can dream of having another baby......

i am not really that fussy but i do have a friend who has to have 'Y' in the middle
she has an Ahlyia, Kaylie & Myley & is pregnant again & if its a boy will be Kayd but unsure of girls name yet

Do you guys have a simple surname or a more difficult one?

How about

Araminta June or Araminta Juno
Araminta Jewel
Araminta Jessimine
Araminta Jill
Araminta Joy
Araminta Juliet

I love H names -

Heidi
Hannah
Holly

Hamish
Heath
Henry

A girl names for me too

Abbi
Aria
Adah
Amelia
Amari
Arla
Anna
Anastasia
Ariana
Asha
Avah
Ayla
Adele
Annika
Amara
Anne
Alice
Annabelle
Arabella
Anouska

Don't mind L's either

Lani
Lara
Lora
Lexi
Loretta
Lorenza
Lucia
Lydia
Lavinia
Lela
Liviana
Lorelei
Lucinda

And for boys it's A, C & M's

Alejandro
Aden
Axel
Amos
Adam
Arlo
Amon
Archie

Charles
Cruz
Cade
Cody
Carter
Chase
Coen

Marcell
Matteo
Matt
Max
Mason
Marcus
Miles
Maxwell

Some ideas for J names with Araminta:

Araminta Joelle
Araminta Jemima
Araminta Jyoti
Araminta Jardine
Araminta Jocasta
Araminta Jasmina
Araminta Janaya
Araminta Jilalga
Araminta Jaianthi
Araminta Jasmitha

Me too! But our surname is also H so makes it tricky. Our son is an H but we steered away from the letter for our daughter.

I didn't used to think there was, but whenever I'm thinking up names for the future child [I'M NOT HAVING], I keep realising I've already got a child with a name starting with A, L, E or B, hahaha!

I only realised just recently that I have a definite tendancy towards "A" names.

Out two meowbabies are named Astro & Alley.

And our girl/boy names we have chosen for our first baby due in August are April or Alexander.

I love 'L' names:
Louisa
Lydia
Lavinia
Letitia
Lucinda
Leonora
Lauren
Lara
Lillian

I also like 'E' names, especially if hey have an 'L' as the 2nd letter!
Elizabeth
Eleonora
Ellen
Eloisa

For boys names, I think I don't have any particular letter.

Thanks for the suggestions BMJ & Gudrun - I think Araminta Jill is a winner at this stage. Now just to get pregnant and make sure its a girl. How hard can it be??

I have broadened the horizons but I can't seem to get past T names for boys... I quite like Chad though, so that might grow on me.

Funny though how some letters suck you in!! I am pretty sure there is a member here with 6 children (or something like that) all with A names.