Unusual but not ridiculous - opinions?

Oooh congratulations with your twins! I love the names of your boys as well - Darwin was on our list but sadly sounds awful with our surname ('w' alliteration, not good) :(

Out of your list at the moment for boys I love Ty, Gray, Rupert and Fergus and for girls I love Melanie, Juliet, Flora and Skye

So you could have

Ty Fergus and Rupert Gray
Melanie Flora and Skye Juliet
Ty Rupert and Melanie Skye
Gray Fergus and Flora Juliet

Hope I helped!

How about Juliet Tansy and Gabriel Fergus? I think they sound better that way round. And Flora Alice is lovely.

Phoebe's lovely but Luna is too close to Loony to be safe.

Melanie Alice -- Melanie will be forever Spice Girls for me
Skye Flora -- too hippyish for my taste and adjectivey
Tansy Juliet -- very nice but I prefer Juliet Tansy, though tansy the plant used to be used to treat intestinal worms among other complaints
Luna Phoebe -- Phoebe Luna nicer than Luna Phoebe and there's a strong potential for Luna being turned into Looney

Ty Leonard really, really dislike Ty but Leonard isn't bad also 'tie Leonard'
Gray Finnian -- Gray is a very blah colour and name imo
Oswald Rupert -- Moseley? Nein
Fergus Gabe -- the nicest of the bunch though I would use Gabriel and not Gabe as the mn

I like the name Corbin, mentioned upthread and think it would go well with your other names and the MNs you have chosen. Corbin is an old word for a crow.

I agree with Scathac's comments.

Tansy Juliet is sweet

Not too sure on the boys names. How about;

Murray
Fraser
Sebastian
Elliott
Elijah
Montgomery (Monty)
Chase

Tansy Juliet and Gray Finnian

TJ and Melissa Alice (not keen on Melanie - sorry)
GF and Fergus Gabriel

Congratulations.

From your list I like,

Girls
Skye Flora
Tansy Juliet - What about Tanith nn Tany?

Boys
Gray Finnian
Fergus Gabe

Good Luck

Of those you've mentioned, Flora and Gabriel are the only two I'd say were ok. I wouldn't get too hung up on middle names, as nobody in RL uses them (you only ever really come across them when people mention Jamie Oliver's children or such like). Though you do of course want to like them.

Suggestions for girls:

Clarissa
Cornelia
Gertie
Fleur
Hepsy (Hephzibah)
Hortensia

Boys:

Gus (Gus is a great name, though I'd call him Augustus to give him choices later)
Hector
Humphrey
Basil

Ooh Bex2011 if this is a boy he will be a Gus! Good to hear you get positive reactions.

Love Ty and Gray, not sure if you could use them together though

Same with Tansy and Flora - love them both but too flowery together!

Skye Flora sounds like the title of a botany book about vegetation on the Isleof Skye. Gray Finnian sounds like the name of a fish. The red finnian, or the gray??? Luna Pheobe is sure to become Loony Pheobe. I love Tansy, but Tansy Juliet? Sounds as though Juliet is being described as "tansy" - what could that mean? drunk, perhaps? That's basically what's wrong with most of the combos - the names themselves are lovely choices, but somehow you are combining them in a way which makes the first name sound like an adjective!! Also, no-one ever actually uses their second name, do they?? So I'd be a bit careful with the order of names if I were you.

Meh. Trouble is OP NOONE ever uses middle names.

Out of all girl's names I only like Flora

And boys Gabriel. Lee Harvey Oswald is not anyone (so tragic) that I would name a child after.....

the combos

I love the names of your DSs, you have great taste :)

I love all of the boys names except Oswald and Finnian, and if I were to put them into different combinations I would go for Ty Rupert and Fergus Gray.

Out of the girls I love them all except Luna and Phoebe and would go for teh combos Melanie Flora and Tansy Juliet.

Hope I helped!

Deliberately have not read other posts to give you my honest opinion not swayed by other comments.

Girls
Melanie Alice - love Alice, Melanie a bit old fashioned imo
Skye Flora - again love Flora but Skye not so much
Tansy Juliet - love Tansy but think of it as a bit of a nickname although not sure for what. Juliet seems a bit ordinary considering your other names
Luna Phoebe - love both of these but not sure they flow together

Boys
Ty Leonard
Gray Finnian
Oswald Rupert
Fergus Gabe

Of your boys names I only really like Finnian and Gabe (although would use Gabriel).

The only one I really balk at is Oswald. I just don't think it sounds very nice and sounds too "serious" compared to the flavour of your other choices.

Tansy and Luna

Ty and Gray

And if you were having mixed I would go for Tansy and Gray or Ty and Luna.

I like Tansy and Flora too.

Congratulations! I think Rolo & Darwin go well with
Tansy & Luna
Ty & Oswald
and also like the suggestions of Angus, Quentin or Gabriel.

Not keen on Melanie (or Smelly Melly) as a girl in our village got called or Skye. Agree that Luna would be asking for trouble too.

Do absolutely love Tansy Juliet though, it's lovely.

From your boys list I like

Oswald Rupert and Fergus and Leonard the best.

How about Leonard Gray or Fergus Finnian?

Congratulations from me too

I adore the name Flora and actually wanted it until a friend sang me a song about being easy to spread and visions of primary school and teasing became quite vivid. Maybe I shouldnt let it put me off!!

Girls: I love the names Flora and Juliet especially Flora because of Cold Comfort Farm. Not so keen on the others, sorry.

Boys: I would avoid Oswald because of Mosley. I like Gabe, but prefer Gabriel. Leonard is nice and different.

My dd's name is Mallory and my friend has 2 ds called Corben and Flynn. I think those all fall into the unusual but not ridiculous category. I get a lot of compliments for Mallory.