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[Opinions] If you had twins would you give them matching names?
I wouldn't. I would give twins two completely different names, just as most siblings have. It is kind of cute when they are young, but not as much when they get older, I think. Thoughts?
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Well, sort of. I would want them to have similar endings, or be of the same ethnic origin.Charlotte & Alice ... after my two grandmothers (is a theme)
Theodora & Matilda ... both end in a (is a theme)
Benjamin & Samuel ... both Biblical
Felix & Casper ... both off-beat due to harmless television character associations
Mary & Lucy ... similar endings, letter amount.I suppose you could say I would.
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No, but I might sneak a theme into the middle names... like Oriana Luna and Anna Selene or something.
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have my top 3 for each gender picked out and I'd just give them those names. I don't think twins names are any different from regular siblings' names (but then some people need to match those too). I’d actually love if I had twin girls, so I could honor both grandmother at the same time and not offend anyone (as is I’m going by the order they died).
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No. They're two separate individuals, not photocopies of each other. The most of the matchiness I'd use would be names that look totally different but have similar meanings.
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No, I wouldn't. It's a pet peeve of mine.
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Yes, I'd call them Doris and Boris. Or Morris and Norris. Or Horace and Chloris!
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No, I'd give them the names I would use if they weren't twins.

This message was edited 11/5/2010, 9:05 PM

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nothing like haylee and kaylee but faith and hope (a theme)
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I wouldn't give twins obviously matchy or themey names, but I might do something slightly more subtle such as giving them names with similar meanings or something like that. I'm also not opposed to naming twins with the same first letter as long as the names aren't too close or rhymey.

This message was edited 11/5/2010, 11:42 AM

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I wouldn't give them matching names, but I'm not opposed to giving them names that both start with the same letter. However, I wouldn't want them to both start with the same sound. For example, I wouldn't name boy twins Damon and Darius, but Damon and Dennis isn't too bad.
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No, but...my names sometimes get a little matchy anyway. Two of my top names are Robert and Romaine; if it came down to picking something out, I wouldn't automatically reject my favorites because they had arguably too much in common.
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I'm really tempted by Eliana and Eliora and Jonathan and Nathaniel
I'd vary the middle initials for the girls.
Selina and Serena are also really tempting.
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Nope. Faintly matching middle names, maybe - i.e., Ruby Philomena and Iris Wilhelmina or Caitlin Bellona and Abigail Finella. Probably not even that though, although I like it. Matching first names, though? No way.
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Ehh...unfortunately maybe.
Two of my favorite boys names are Joshua and Jonathan so I would want to use them but they are rather twinny. And my favorite girl names are Maggie and Abigail, which aren't bad but Abigail would be shorted to Abby. Maggie & Abby are kind of cutesy & twinny. I don't like twinny names, especially rhyming names. I wouldn't try to make twinny names. I do think the names should kind of complement each other (I also think sibling names should complement each other), like James Henry and Ashtyn Maverick don't "go" together. I guess that happens though when mom names one & dad names the other.
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I would just pick names that I liked.And if they were "matchy" so be it. DH and I already have a set of names picked that we really, really like and that we've agreed upon. So, if I found out tomorrow that I was pregnant with twins, their names are good to go ;) Rhyming names are a little too much for me, though. The names that we've picked aren't rhyme-y but have a few little quirky similarities. I knew twins named Larry and Gary. I felt so bad for them.
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LOL! I know twins named Larry and Garry (yes, 2 Rs for each)!

This message was edited 11/5/2010, 10:17 AM

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Wow. Poor guys! I also work with a twin. Her sister is Joyce and she is ... Loyce. ::sigh::
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LOL oh manThat is BAD. I love how they needed to give her a rhyming name SO BADLY that they just made something up for the occasion.
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See, I thought Loyce was pretty neat. A variant of Lois that seemed kinda hippish and not so ... ugly (lol). And then I found out she's a (younger) twin. And her sister's name is Joyce. Aargh.
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Is it said like Lois, or does it actually rhyme with Joyce? I would also think Loyce is neat until I heard about sister Joyce!
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When I first started working, I thought it was "low-iss" and then I saw her name plate and it read "L-O-Y-C-E" and, after I listened to HER say her name, it rhymes with Joyce :)
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Yuck. I don't understand the need to make twins' names rhyme.
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Um, yeah. Not like Brayden and Kayden, but I have Rosamund and Edmund as a sibset, Juno and Ludovic (I wouldn't use the nn Ludo, but Juno and Ludo is what makes this matchy for me), and I like the idea of giving siblings names that connect to eachother, like Helios and Selene.
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I don't knowSomeimes I do like names that are "themey" and I guess twins would be as good an opportunity as any to use them, but it does kind of make me barfy to hear of silly twin names. I would DEFINITELY never use rhyming names, but something like Opal and Pearl, or Ivy and Rose, I don't know. Maybe I would. I admit it ok!!?

This message was edited 11/5/2010, 6:59 AM

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No. Way.Why can't they just have their own identities, instead of being labled "the twins" all the time?
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Definitely not ...Twin comparisons are inevitable as it is (especially for same-sex twins). I wouldn't compound the problem by adding matchy, themey names. Now if I happened to love two names with the same letter and they were honestly my favorites (i.e., Sarah and Samuel), then I'd probably use them.
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Definitely not! I'm a twin and my sister and I do not have matching names and I would never even think about giving my twins matching names. Twins are two individuals who just happen to be born on the same day and sometimes look a lot like each other. Just the fact that you're a twin means that most people around you think of you as one out of two (at least when your a child) and constantly compares you to the other one and/or do not even bother to learn to see the difference between you. Giving twins names like Anna and Anne just makes it worse. I would use my two favorite names for my twins.
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I wouldn't. But I do like a lot of names that start with E, so it is possible that I would give them names with the same initial - but not for the sake of it, rather because I like the names.
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Definitely not names that look or sound similar. Maybe names with similar meanings or the same language origin.
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Not obviously matching ones most likely.
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No I wouldn't. I'd name them just as I would if they were regular siblings, born at different times.
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I like both Alice and Celia, and they are anagrams but without being too blatant; so I might consider that. Same with Gillian and Juliet, but only for mns. Lucy and Helen share a meaning ... but not anything silly like Annemarie and Marianne.My son is Peter, but had he been a twin I wouldn't have used Simon - I simply don't like it, match or no. Or Paul, though I do like that. I know identical twins named Paul and Peter, and it's not a road I'd care to travel.
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I would give them names I loved. If they matched it wouldn't be on purpose.
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No.No, twins shouldn't have names that are any more 'matchy' than ordinary sibings. They ought to complement one another (e.g. Jane and Sarah would, Jane and Mykenzee would not) but that's about it.
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No matchy names! Maybe same letter for first or middle names but nit like Rose and Daisy or something like that. I like:
-Nathaniel/Natalie
-Charlotte/Elizabeth
-Nathaniel/Daniel
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No way. At least, not intentionally. I'd give them the same names I give two children born one after the other. If they happened to have something in common, thats fine, but I'd never do it on purpose, same as I'd never do it for siblings.If I had twins today, I'd name them:
Xanthe Opal Esther & Geneva Lucy Anneliese
Xanthe Opal Esther & Oscar Matthias B.
Oscar Matthias B. & August Malachi Felix.So, not matchy, although the boys would both have M middle names, but not for the sake of them having the same middle name initials.
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I don't have a huge problem with matchy twin sets but it's not something I'd do personally.The closest I would come to being matchy is having the same first initial and even then it would be unintentional.Honestly I'm thinking of my boys' names when I say that. My top three faves all start with R, so it would be unintentional but still possibly perceived as matchy.Naming twins Faith and Hope or Lily and Rose, for example, would be too matchy for my tastes.
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Maybe. Probably I wouldn't bother, I'd just pick two names I liked, but if I had a twin "set" in mind that I liked, I don't think I'd avoid it. I don't think I'd mind, if I were named a matching name with a twin, as long as it wasn't blatant and corny (like, Dawn and Evening, Faith and Hope), and as long as it didn't feel like one name was clearly chosen only to "match" the other rather than for its own sake (like, Brandy and Benedictine, or Tabitha and Dorcas). I think some rhyming names are okay, alliteration is fine, and meaning-matches are usually okay if the names themselves are both nice.
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Dawn and Dusk would be awful.
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Are my girls names matchy?One starts with a K and one with a C, but they are a couple years apart...So no I wouldn't intentionally, like Autumn and Summer, or Jaydon and Kaydon, but two names we love that happen to have something in common? Sure.
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I wouldn't say names starting with the same initial are matchy if they're different otherwise.
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I'd probably give them completely different names, too, or if I didn't they'd be matching in origin, meaning, or something else. You know?
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I wouldn't give them obviously matching names. If there were two names that I really loved that had some sort of more hidden connection, like complementary meanings, I might consider using those, but I'm still not sure.
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No I wouldn't.
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Nope, I wouldn't.
They're their own people, and it bothers me even when people get obsessive about matching a new baby's name to an older sibling name as if the baby is most importantly a sibling for the older one, and not a person in itself.
I like it when names compliment each other, but matching? No thanks.
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Had my twin brothers been born their names would have been Cody Chip and Chip Cody. I personally believe they died of embarrassment in the womb when they realized this. Alteration is fine but don't get too matchy matchy.
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That would be horrible. If I had a twin and we shared names like that I would never admit it. I would take to my grave.
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No. At the most I would give them names that are related in some way. But I wouldn't want them to match.
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