Twin Trouble

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We are expecting twins begining of July and unlike before we are having terrible trouble deciding on names.......... Please help!!
We are not ifnding out the sex untill birth so need 2x boys 2x girls and a boy/girl combo. We want the names to sound good together but not to 'matchy' IYKWIM!! Any suggestions not on list appreciated also.

Boys:
Ezekiel
Isaac
Alasdair
Leonard
Quentin
Vincent
Richard
Matthew
Andrew
Michael

MN 1:
Hemi
Rua
Tipene
Eti
Wiremu

MN 2:
Alden
George
Peter

Girls:
Harriet
Hettie
Tabitha
Philippa
Arabella
Meredith
Arianna
Abigail

MN1:
Anahera
Ngaio
Lani
Pipi
Taimana
Rea
Kiri

MN2:
Alice
Joan
Meg
Carrie

Our other DC are:
Elizabeth
Xavier
Juliet (our beautiful Angel)
Nicholas (adopted dn)
Jonathan

Ezekiel George and Isaac Hemi
Leonard Peter and Alasdair Eti
Richard Alden and Michael Rua
Andrew George and Isaac Tipene
Matthew Alden and Isaac Wiremu

Harriet Kiri and Philippa Joan
Philippa Lani and Arabella Meg
Arianna Taimana and Meredith Alice
Abigail Ngaio and Harriet Joan
Meredith Anahera and Philippa Carrie

Alasdair Eti and Philippa Lani
Richard Tipene and Arabella Meg
Leonard Rua and Meredith Joan
Andrew George and Abigail Kiri
Ezekiel George and Harriet Lani

Ezekiel Tipene George
Alasdair Hemi Peter
Leonard Hemi Peter
Richard Tipene Alden
Matthew Rua George
Andrew Eti Alden
Michael Hemi Alden

Harriet Pipi Joan
Tabitha Ngaio Carrie
Philippa Lani Meg
Arabella Kiri Joan
Meredith Anahera Meg
Arianna Rea Alice
Abigail Taimana Meg

With your other children I think Alasdair, Leonard, Matthew, Harriet, Arabella and Abigail go best.

I wouldn't use Pipi with Philippa if I were you.
If you like that sort of thing, it would be cool to use Rua and Rea together for b/g twins.

When you say "Middle name 1" and "Middle name 2" do you mean "we'd like a middle name from this set for baby 1, and a middle name from this set for baby 2", or do you mean there are two middle names for each child?

2 middle names for each child. 1st mn is maori and 2nd mn is family(gp/ggp ect)

My favourtites are

Leonard Eti George
Quentin Hemi Alden

Tabitha Rea Alice
Arabella Kiri Joan

Lovely names .

Alasdair Hemi George
Quentin Wiremu George
Vincent Hemi Peter

Philippa Rea Joan
Arabella Pipi Alice
Abigail Kiri Joan

Would be my choices, but they're all lovely classic names and it's nice that you're including maori names.

Nice names, my favourites would be Vincent Eti Peter, Quentin Hemi George and Tabitha Ngaio Alice, Arabella Rea Joan. Good luck - you'll be having your hands full with twins and 4 other children .

Andrew Hemi Alden
Michael Rua George

Abigail Lani Joan
Harriet Pipi Meg

But Quentin, Tabitha, Ezekial and Leonard....do you WANT your children to grow up hating you?!?!?!

Love your existing childrens' names and think these would go particularly well

Alastair Eti Peter
Quentin Hemi George
Michael Hemi Alden
Tabitha Ngaio Alice
Arabella Kiri Joan
Phillipa Lani Joan

Good luck!

Ezekiel Hemi George
Quentin Wiremu Alden
Matthew Rua Peter
Tabitha Ngaio Carrie
Arabella Kiri Joan
Arianna Rea Alice

sound lovely imo.

Well we have narrowed down the middle names!

Boys
Hemi George
Eti Alden
or
Eti George
Hemi Alden

Girls
Lani Alice
Kiri Joan
or
Kiri Alice
Lani Joan

Now to decide which combo sounds best and with what first name??????????

I think Leonard (Leo), Quentin (Quin) and Isaac as well as Tabitha, Arabella and Abigail are lovely, classic but not overused/trendy names. Lovely!

do you have to use the maori names as middle names? I think Kiri and Lani are lovely names and go well for twins. I think they are much nicer than the names you have on the list (which are fine but nothing jumps out)

boys i like matthew, michael and andrew and hemi alden and eti george combo.

My other dc all have
1st name, Maori name, family name, surname combo so would be worried it might seam a bit odd to others if we 'changed tactics' this time.

But then there are two of them so less likely to cause child to feel left out when older and realising they are named differently from siblings??

I love the Maori names its very important to me to include maori names when naming my dc as i am proud of my herritage. I would happily use them as first names but dh was worried that people would have trouble pron and spelling them. But i dont think this would be a problem with Lani or Kiri? I may have to work on dh a bit and see if i can persuade him........... hes such a stubbon old git though

they are really lovely names. I like Rea too.

On name that popped into my head was Christina? Some of the girls and boys names you mentioned are my siblings so thought you maybe had similar taste to my mum. So christina or maybe even laura?

As i said the list you have is fine but elizabeth and juliet are lovely names and imo the list you have doesn't have the same feel IYKWIM?

Congratulations btw on your big brood, how lovely!