Thoughts on the names Freddie/Fred and Lily for b/g twins?

Really cute combo!! Go for it

or Kenton and Shula
or Pinky and Perky

Frederick Hugo and Lily Rosalind

I thought Fred (twin George) and Lily (Harry’s Mum) from Harry Potter tbh

No idea about any Archers connection! I’m 41 and Welsh if that helps

PP’s I do know a Shula though, short for Ursula. She’s always used the shortened version

Yes I thought “nice names but they’re in The Archers “. They’re not very nice characters either.

Like lots of others, my first thought was The Archers. im a die-hard fan. But I suspect The Archers listeners are predominantly of non childbearing age, so you're probably safe.

You will get lots of comments about whether you're an Archers fan, but if that doesn't bother you, then go for it. They are lovely names.

I know siblings Lily & Freddie, I think they go lovely together.

I have heard of the Archers but I couldn't name one character in it.

Please don't pick Elle, I know over 20 different Elle/Ella/Ellie's. Lily is gorgeous.

The archers came to my mind.
I don't listen ( mid 40's) but much younger siblings do!

I started listening to the Archers on maternity leave. DD (25) now listens to it because one of her colleagues has it on in the staff room at lunch time.

At the moment, Freddie and Lily are quite bland, but Freddie has served time in prison (or in a youth offenders institute?) for selling drugs and Lily is living with Russ, whom she met when she was at school and he was a teacher.

The snag is that you don't know what sort of storyline might be associated with them in the future.

(The Archers twins are Lily Rosalind and Frederick Hugo, btw).

flippertyop

Lovely names - sod the archers no one under 60 listens to it

Erm, despite 3 pages of many posters telling you otherwise

I started listening to the Archers as a student and still listen, I'm in my thirties. DS is 3 sings the theme tune and asks to listen to 'the farm story' (have to be careful as not all storylines are appropriate but he likes the ones with animal sounds mostly or Jazzer's motorbike). So don't count on future generations not being aware of it.
Freddie is a convicted drug dealer and Lily had an affair with her married teacher and dropped out of uni to sell kitchens, both traumatised after their father fell from the roof of their stately home.
An everyday story of country folk....

I have a Frederick who we call Freddie/ Fred, more often than not now he tends to be Fred.

Even MIL who hated the name and insisted she would always call him by Frederick (pronounced Fred-er-rick rather than the way we say it which is ‘Fred-Rick’) calls him Freddie. It really suits him.

Freddie/ Frederick is popular but that’s never bothered me, I don’t know what the obsession is with naming your kid something they’ll have to spell out to everyone forever. I have an unusual name (that is an actual name, just not used a lot at the time when I was born) and I’ve always hated it!

Those of you saying you've never heard of it, maybe you would recognise the theme tune? It's called Barwick Green. The audience was in the tens of millions back in the 1950s when it was new and most people in the UK didn't have TV. That changed and the audience fell a bit, but as others have said there are millions of us, and plenty of people who know all about it from growing up with it on in the background or having a relative/partner who listens.

Also, as the Archers threadstarter, I'd like to invite all the posters who listen over to our long-running series of threads in the Radio Addicts topic. Here's the current one, which has a day or two left to run. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/4420580--Archers-thread-133-Woolley-socks-it-to-them-Discuss-The-Archers-and-its-Woolley-thinking-and-plotting-here Spoiler free! (We have a separate thread for spoilers.)

And to add to that, it's not a dreadful connection. The worst that will happen is people will say 'oh, like The Archers' and you'll say 'no, Lily was my grandmother's name'. And they'll only be referred to collectively for a short time. When they move out to university and the workplace, most people around them won't know what their sibling's name is.

I think why the Archers connection wouldn't be an issue for me is the names are both so popular and fit together well stylistically. If it were Balthazar and Cordelia then I'd avoid, but for two of the most popular names in the country if they were my favourite names I wouldn't have a soap opera which isn't in the public consciousness very often (the last storyline which broke out was Helen and Rob six years ago) put me off.

Yep, read the thread title and thought the Archers. Definitely not just an old lady thing - there's a long running series of threads on Munsnet discussing it...!

Lovely names for twins, but I think you mean but be under estimating just how many people will think The Archers.

I'm very close to your age, OP, and thought of The Archers immediately! I've stopped listening but have multiple Millennial friends who listen to it...

Archers was my immediate thought too

I also thought The Archers (NZ listener here!)

I bet their friends won’t know about it but lots of people will mention it to you when you say the names.

Erm, I've listened to the Archers since I was 27, and before that knew all the characters' names because it was always on. Spent a long car journey recently explaining the omnibus storylines to my 18 year old niece.

So, expect a few comments but it wouldn't put me off. They are lovely names and it's not like you are calling them Grant and Phil.

Lovely names - sod the archers no one under 60 listens to it

ancientgran

PartyOnKale
Shula would make me think Archers because I know of no other!

That's true. I wonder where they got that from

The story goes that Phil and Jill shuffled a load of lettered wooden bricks and came up with those names! Before my time but evidently the Fifties were more wacky than we realise!