Twin girls - Holly & Ivy

[Notyetamummy]

My friend is expecting twin girls. They are due on Christmas day.

She wants to name them:

Holly Grace

&

Ivy Rose

Grace & Rose are the names of her two grandmothers.

What does everyone think?

Individually I like the names, but for twin girls

Holly Grace
Noelle Rose/ Natalie Rose

I think it's gorgeous.

What about Donner and Blitzen? Equally Christmassy and no sillier. She must be stopped!

Grace Holly and Ivy Rose

Or Grace Ivy and Rose Holly

Or Holly Grace and Rose Ivy (but not so keen in Rose Ivy whereas Ivy Rose is nice).

I see her point and it's too good an opportunity to miss in some ways but I'd 'go' for incorporating rather than having the first names as Holly and Ivy.

Individually lovely names but you're right they don't really work for twins and at Christmas.

It's nearly as bad as the twin girls at my niece's school called Peace and Love. Bad enough in itself but ther surname is Love too!!!

Natalia and Noella are also Christmassy.

Individually lovely; far too twee together. Is she concerned about popularity? You could point out that Holly is the #1 name for girls born in December (or it was in 2009, anyway).

ayjayjay really???
Peace Love and Love Love?

Oh, whatever. There are worse names. Although they'll get lots of the older generation singing about "when they are both full grown"

I like the names. yes, they are twins, but they are individuals and both names are lovely and not at all out of the ordinary.

Why do people care so much? If she likes the names, she should use them :)

I know a few people with christmas-y names with birthdays around xmas and it's not been a problem for them.

She will thank you later if you persuade her out of it now.

Btw, imagine going through life called Ivy when your sister is Holly - there's a whole song about Holly and Ivy gets one line! (I am petty but if I was 5, that would have occurred to me! )

I do like the names actually. But not for twins and not around christmas.

That is a good point, actually -- "The Holly and the Ivy" is largely a song to the effect of "There are Holly and Ivy, and Holly is really cool whereas Ivy is a bit crap really". And as they will be hearing that song a lot it will only take Ivy a couple of years to twig that...

(Ha! Twig! See what I did there...)

She should call them Mistletoe and Wine.

That would be MUCH better.

I'm such a nerd. I'm ROFL at ProfessorLayton.

Apparently she loves these names and thinks it's lovely that they match

I'm just hoping that as she has some time left that she'll change her mind. She's only 17 (my younger cousin) and I'm not sure that the full reality of them being REAL people has hit her yet.

She needs to do a little reading about the need of twins to be seen as individuals and not a matching pair. Beginning with their names. A lot of twins hate the matchy matchy approach.

Good luck to her though -- 17 and having twins. Gosh. Not an easy row to how.

hoe, dang autocorrect.

I like them :)

My previous comments notwithstanding, she could do a lot worse. At least here both are nice sensible names individually, rather than some random concoction of letters or names that rhyme, or some other offence against naming decency. I still think it's a bad idea, but I've heard much worse ideas.

my g pigs were called Holly and Ivy!!

"It's nearly as bad as the twin girls at my niece's school called Peace and Love. Bad enough in itself but ther surname is Love too!!!"

so one is called Love Love??

I used to have toads called January, February and March
I was an odd child