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Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

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Help need to name friends 4 day old twins!!!!

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absentmindeddooooodles · 24/08/2013 18:52

A very close firnd has just had twins ( 4 days ago) one girl one boy. She is beside herself because they still have not chosen names for either of them. So oh wise mumsnetters......any suggestions?

She likes quirky and old fashioned names, but is open to absoloutley anything!

Thanks in advance :)

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OliviaMMumsnet · 25/08/2013 20:19

marking place.
Congrats to your friend. Lovely names (especially the boy )

Purplelooby · 25/08/2013 20:16

Henry sebastian and opal sophia are gorgeous! Well done to your friend x

sparkle3232 · 25/08/2013 18:23

Kitty and Jack?
Ava and Freddie?
Harriet and Toby?
Maddy and Max?
Ella and Luke?
Isobel and Benji?
Olivia and Daniel?

Ruprekt · 25/08/2013 16:51

Lovely!

AndWhenYouGetThere · 25/08/2013 12:15

Henry Sebastian and Opal Sophia here too

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absentmindeddooooodles · 25/08/2013 12:12

Drum roll please........

Introducing

Henry sebastian and opal sophia

:) :) :) :)

Friend says thankyou so much and the family think the names are beautiful

Exhaustipated and onyabike spot on!!

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BabyBrainMom · 25/08/2013 11:11

Sylvie and Noah
Eloise and Lukas

Onyabike · 25/08/2013 10:56

Henry Sebastian and Opal Sophia

Exhaustipated · 25/08/2013 10:03

I am very happy to have helped to name a baby by suggesting Opal :) :) :)

I think it is SO beautiful - wanted it for my DD but it doesn't go with our surname and DH said no way

Henry is great and goes with it very well.

My choices for the full names would be

Opal Sophia, although hard to choose as all three beautiful!
and
Henry Sebastian - sounds very distinguished. They would then have 'matchy' middle names I suppose, but that's quite nice...

Congrats OP's friend :)

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absentmindeddooooodles · 25/08/2013 09:22

Opal matilda?
Opal ramona
Opal sophia

Henry edward
Henry sebastian
Henry rafferty

Gorgeous names f4om everyone. Will be saving this and referring to it for myself :) which one of these teo doea everyone think?

Shes slept on it amd still set on opal and henry.
( and the car connotations has just made her dps day....hes a mechanic and rather into his cars. Haha)

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mummanj · 25/08/2013 08:10

Thanks for the update op. My favourites still Matilda and Edward, Tilly and Eddie so cute. X

argylesocks · 25/08/2013 06:44

Opal Ramona! I think that sounds lovely. Lots of things go with Henry... Edward is a bit dull but perfectly nice. Henry Jasper?

largeginandtonic · 24/08/2013 23:13

Arthur and Mabel/Florence.

Albert and Dulcie

herethereandeverywhere · 24/08/2013 23:11

Opal and Henry are quite car themed to my mind (European name for Vauxhall/General Motors and Henry Ford) but I'm sure that wouldn't occur to most people.

largeginandtonic · 24/08/2013 23:10

Hubert and Bunty. Awesome names.

baskingseals · 24/08/2013 23:08

Or Jasper? Maybe that's a bit much though, but it is a lovely name.

baskingseals · 24/08/2013 23:07

What about Opal and Peter? I think Peter means rock, which would be a nice connection to Opal.

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 24/08/2013 22:56

Opal the stone is not unlucky. This whole superstition stemmed from a novel Anne of Geierstein By Walter Scott, and a rumour possibly started by Diamond companies to damage the opposition.
They are beautiful rocks. That's all.

fiddlemethis · 24/08/2013 22:55

Can I just put forward Rafferty for the boy, I love that name!!

sarahtigh · 24/08/2013 22:55

for me Charlotte or Caroline and then Alasdair or perhaps Alexander

Ruprekt · 24/08/2013 22:51

Opal means tears or sadness....something to do with the stone shrinking and falling out of it's ring clasp setting resulting in a sad bride.

Have never liked Henry.......

My twins would be called

Beatrice Oriele

And

Theo Rufus Benjamin

Hooleywhipper · 24/08/2013 22:51

Beautiful names,many congratulations to your friend.

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absentmindeddooooodles · 24/08/2013 22:47

Why is that so hard to believe? Shes been on endless baby namw sites, bought tje books, made lists and had her favourites, but didnt think the names she previously picked suiyed them ( which id fair enough)

Edward was always on her list. Opal she has never come across and really noticed but thought it really suited her dd.

Mumsnet seems like a perfectly reasonable place to come for baby names! Tjeres been some lovely suggestions and of course she would not just choose one for tje sake of it being dont before bedtime. I think everyone else reading this gor the gist that the comment made about it was more in jest, bit that shenis becomimg uncomfortable not having names for them.

Thanks everyone for your lovely suggestions,

For the record she is still going with opal and henry which i think are great names. Im still sat here writing out possibilities for middle names while she feeds dts. :)

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soontobeslendergirl · 24/08/2013 22:46

....and how sane is it to have a third (previously unwanted) child and give it a horrible name to spite some people on an internet forum that you don't know and will never meet? Over dramatic much?

MeerkatMerkin · 24/08/2013 22:44

Cleo and Caspar.

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