Twin names - only in America....

[MummysLittleSunbeams]

I copied this from one of the Baby and Bump forums :

Im having twins and have no names selected.
we dont kno the gender yet but heres what i have so far...
boy&girl- braelyn n kailyn
boy&girl- jaiden n kayden
girl&girl-brooklyn n london
girl&girl- faith n hope
boy&girl- bentley n mercedes
boy&boy- de'vonte n de'onte
girl&boy- bonnie n clyde

HELP IS NEEDED TERRIBLELY ANY SUGGESTIONS..???

I agree help is definitely needed!

Ha, ha, thats brilliant!!
Esp. like Braelyn & Kailyn and De'vonte and De'onte???!!

I do know of twins called Faith and Hope over here in good old Blighty - wouldnt have been my choice though probably the 'best' from those listed.

I've only ever personally known of 2 sets of twins and they were Ian & Rachel and Ian & Stuart - obnviously Ian was popular twin name in the 80's??!!

My twins would be:
Joseph & Nathan
Chloe & Georgia
Nathan & Chloe

A friend of friend in NY called her twins Brooklyn & Chelsea and I know of a Sage & Basile set of twins too (in Florida). The last one is just stupid..

My favorite twins' names is my SIL's creation: Percival & Philippa (Percy & Pippa, they just go so well together, not sure I would be brave enough though).

Magdalena, I read your SiL's suggestions as Percy and Pepper and thought she must have had a pig theme. Pippa is better but I still don't understand the matching names thing.

OP, what names do you like? I would definitely avoid having the same initial because that can be confusing with post and stuff later. Rhyming names or names which sound as similar as possible are just totally incomprehensible please don't inflict that on your dc. Do you want a theme with names? If you really really want a theme perhaps go for one a bit broader. You could choose "virtue" names - there was a recent thread about male virtue names. Or "space - related" names so you could have constellation names or something, e.g. Lyra and Leo (although same first letter). Or just don't have a theme and choose 2 names which you like.

They forgot to add salt and pepper to the list.

And Fish and Chips.

seriously?

Perhaps better not to ask for opinions then. I am making an effort not to be too cruel honest

Just as well we didn't have twins as my OH went through a "Stella" and "Artois" phase.........I hope to god he was joking!!! I actually quite liked Stella but not with my surname!!

Maybe a british suggestion to go back with:

2 boys - Mark and Spencer??

Percy and Pippa? Surely that's a wind up?

Naughty naughty SIL!

Love Mark and Spencer!

Gavin and Stacey?
Terry and June?

I promise it is not a joke! Why would it one actually?
I would not go for it for obvious reasons (Percy) but Percival is a name I quite like and it has a nice literary reference. DH and his brothers decided they would not call him "Percy", so my nephew also gets shortened to "Pierce".

I don't think either that the names have to match, it seems just nicer but I am pretty sure I would give two very different names if I had twins.

Also heard in NY: Harper and Viola; Rose and Lily; Grischa and Misha
haha Mark and Spencer! I am sure there are sets called like that.

Sorry Magdalena ignore me. Probably best I say no more.

I don't know if it's just an American thing but they all seem to want twin names that match, or have the same number of letters, have the same initials, rhyme or the worst I've seen are when they have the same name but with the letters reversed such as Heaven & Nevaeh or Aidan & Nadia.. boak!

Hmmmm how about

Jack & Jill
Bill & Ben
Zoe & Chloe

Ooh just a thought

Ben & Jerry
Tom & Jerry
Frankie & Benny

US twin names for 2011 here

Heaven and Nevaeh
Serenity and Trinity
Mackenzie and Makayle
Kayla and Jayla
Mia and Mya
Autumn and Summer (endless potential for arguments about who is best/first, etc)
Oh, and London and Paris..

Brilliant list OP Brooklyn and London is my fav however maybe for kittens.

Paris and Florence
Apple and Clementine

Bonnie and Clyde?! They have high ambitions for their twins.
I did say tell dp that if we ever had boy twins, they would have to be Bill and Ben.
I did know twins called Amanda and Andrew - their parents call them by their first name, but everyone else just called them Mandy and Andy. Don't they think these things through?

Dick and Fanny?

I taught a Leon and Leah pair.

'only in America'?

Hmm, I'm sure you would find parents with equally tacky name combinations in the UK. It's about people who are stupid and lack taste and there are plenty of those on both sides of the Atlantic!

Some US first names for babies that I've come across are very weird though, seem to be made up out of thin air.

I grew up in America and yes, they do have a thing for rhyming (or similar sounding) twin names, or at least they did in the 60's and 70's.

In my class, there was a Terry and Gary (they rhyme if pronounced the American way.)

I also remember a Shelly and Sheila, a Kerry and Sherry, a Sharon and Karen, John and Don and Duane and Jane.

Oh My, I wish I didn't remember.

Boris and Noris
Daryl and Carol
Maisie and Daisy
Harry and Barry

In all seriousness....
B/B - Travis and Rex
B/G - Travis and Sylvie
G/G - Sylvie and Florence

I'm a twin I am Josephine my twin is Rebecca

I used to know a Jeannette and Jennifer. In the UK in the 70s.

I came across twins a couple of years ago named Chablis & Chardonnay- gotta love it!