Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

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

Original poster

Throw some girls names at me - anything and everything - QUICK!

115 replies

neon552 · 10/08/2019 19:31

36+2 with twin girls. No name ideas at all! First children so don’t have a ‘style’ so pls just give me anything and everything.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Bouledeneige · 12/08/2019 20:53

Amelie
Bobby
Celeste
Coralie
Chiara
Elodie
Edie
Evelyn
Florence
Giselle
Isadora
Ines
Marnie
Mallory
Merisna
Scilla
Shona
Thea
Lyra
Stella
Seraphine

Emthebaker · 12/08/2019 12:27

Congratulations! I hope you get chance to enjoy your pregnancy with everything that’s going on 💕

I think a nice way to link twin names is with a prominent sound that isn’t the initial for both, so they have similarities without being too samey..

.e.g.
Violet & Ivy
Margot & Grace
Dorothy & Eden
Eleanor & Lily

Or through meaning..

.e.g.
Elara & Larissa (both moons)
Eira & Neve (both mean snow)
Verity & Blythe (both virtue names)

Hope all goes well with your pregnancy and delivery x

missmouse101 · 12/08/2019 08:33

How's the shortlist, OP?! 😊

Snoopy90 · 11/08/2019 23:13

Another fan of Saskia and Natasha, they sound great together

manicinsomniac · 11/08/2019 22:28

Oh, and my current favourite names:

Astrid, Arabella, Aphra, Amy, Aria, Bronte, Cassidy, Eden, Eva, Fenella, Francesca, Faith, Georgina, Hannah, Iris, (Ivy), Jessica, Jocelyn, Kiki, Kayleigh, Livia, Lyra, Miranda, Mika, Mala, Naomi, (Natasha), Octavia, Piper, Rhiannyd, Rebecca, Saffron, Saskia, Savannah, Sadie, Verity, Xanthe, Zeryn, Zara

manicinsomniac · 11/08/2019 22:23

Your shortlist so far:
Hazel - like it. Don't know any children with this name (bonus?)
Sasha - I know 2 female Sashas. Think it's only make if spelled Sacha.
Etta / Ettie / Effie - Love Etta and Effie. Less keen on Ettie (it's a nn?)
Saskia (Sassie) - Love Saskia. Wouldn't shorted to Sassie
Ivy - Love it. Don't think it's faddy.
Kitty - don't like it, it just makes me think of a cat. I do like Katherine.
Nancy - don't like it
Polly - quite cute
Adelaide - quite like it
Luna - quite like it
Natasha - love it

As pairs, I love -
Natasha and Saskia
Ivy and Etta
Sasha and Effie

Quite a lot of the girl twins I know do have either very rhymey/matching names or have names from a particular culture/country. But the ones I know that might fit your taste are:
Emily and Harriet
Scarlett and Isabella
Beatrice and Hester
Imogen and Laura
Imogen and Nicola

LookAtThatRedSheep · 11/08/2019 13:56

Clementine and Delilah

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 11/08/2019 13:52

Ooh, two more - names of other little girls I know and love:

Hester
Cecily

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 11/08/2019 13:51

Ingrid
Matilda
Hope
Imogen
Rosalind

Just names I would've considered if I'd had a second DD.

Littlepond · 11/08/2019 13:41

Your daughters must be called Erica and Martina.

BikeRunSki · 11/08/2019 13:38

Lucy and Alice is a good pair. I know two sets of twins with these names!

BikeRunSki · 11/08/2019 13:22

Lois and Tara

Bubbletrouble43 · 11/08/2019 13:10

Saskia and natasha do make a lovely pairing

Changedname81 · 11/08/2019 11:53

Lucy and Alice

Benjispruce · 11/08/2019 10:28

Carmela

Benjispruce · 11/08/2019 10:28

Mari
Mariella
Marina
Aurelia (Lia)
Delphine(Della)

taylorlynn · 11/08/2019 10:18

Names that I have come across recently at baby groups and on those mother and baby instagrams!
Blair, Brynn, Marley, Coco, Tinley, Clarissa, Celeste, Tiffany, Paris, Giselle, Shelby, Sydney, Faye, Nikki, Madison, Kinsley, Cher, Noelle, Quinn, Paisley

Gigia · 11/08/2019 09:31

Niamh
Sophia
Grace
Scarlett
Alexis
Lily
Juliette
Victoria
Eloise

ChihuahuaMummy1 · 11/08/2019 09:29

Elsie and Eva
Savannah and Sienna
Everly and Ebony

Benjispruce · 11/08/2019 09:26

My aunty Margaret was known as Molly.

sparklefarts · 11/08/2019 09:25

Emma
Lisa
Rebecca

Ellmau · 11/08/2019 09:22

Polly is a diminutive of Margaret

Molly is short for Margaret.

No - Polly and Molly are both pet names for Mary, not Margaret. (And both seem to have become names in their own right now, so if OP likes one of them go ahead. (Not both together though.)

Benjispruce · 11/08/2019 09:15

Stella
Ruby
Emille( Emmie nn)
Celia

Benjispruce · 11/08/2019 09:08

Molly is short for Margaret.

Benjispruce · 11/08/2019 09:08

I thought Kitty was a form of Katherine and Kathleen.

Swipe left for the next trending thread