What would you name twins? Matching or unmatching names?

[Blackberrybush]

I'm having twins. 6wks 1dy to go. A girl and boy. I really need inspiration, so far I've only got Molly, Amelie and Susannah for a girl and Joshua, Isaiah and Theodore for a boy. Any suggestions?

Also, have you ever heard twins with really matchy names. I know twins called Amy and May (anagrams), Nevis and Snowdown (as in the mountains) and Thomas and Percy. I don't think the family realised how it matched for the last one, but I could only think of Thomas the Tank Engine.

Thomas means a twin so a lovely middle name for a twin!

As a child we had friends who were twins called Anna and Anne. Didn't think anything of it as children dont give two hoots about such things.
As a mother of twins who couldnt be more individual the very idea makes me shudder.

I have two cats called Jinx and Hex ....

Well exactly. Of course they're individual. Just as unique in personality (if not genetics) as any other siblings.

I have 1.3 yr old B/G twins. They are called Quentin and Christina.

Other twins I know are
Hector/Hugo
Poppy/Daisy
Samuel/Rebecca
William/Sylvia

The initials for my name would be S.A.B and J.D.B, so no problems there. Yes, we've gone for Susannah Alice 'Susie' and Joshua David 'Josh/Joshy'. I'm so excited! My initials are S.M.I.L.E and I always liked that. My mother's initials were A.S.S! She always hated that.

Thomas means twin, and I like Joshua Thomas and Susannah Alice or Susannah Elizabeth.
My friend has 3 year old twins called Aimee and Thomas.

I am a twin, my parents chose non - matching names for my brother and me and I have always been grateful. We are such different people that it would have been awful to have similar names. Likewise to dress twins the same - they are two separate people, not two halves of a whole!! We hated people addressing our (joint!) birthday or Christmas card to 'the twins' and having to share EVERYTHING, a bedroom, toys, birthday parties. Let them have their own personalities, being a twin isn't as big a deal for the boy/girl ones as people think. Mostly, they are just like any other siblings.

And never, ever say: oh a twin brother? How nice, are you identical?

Well, durrrr.

All lovely names but please no more Joshuas. My 3year old dd knows so many she gets really confused.

littlest I'm totally with you! I also have a twin brother and we couldn't be more different. I used to laugh when people asked if we were identical and say, "Are you saying I look like a bloke!".
I never think of him as my twin, just my brother, and I too would have hated matching names.

Id go for Phoebe and Rex.

Or Cate and Gregor.

What littlest said.
The word twins was banned in our house, it was refered to a the T word!
Matching names is awful - twins are people not guinea pigs!

I loathe 'matching' names. They're children not goldfish.

Your chosen names are lovely.

Kirrin

I posted before I'd seen your post.

Great minds think alike narked

I don't really like twin names that start with same letter although it seems very common at my DC school. Each to their own. Mine have dif letters but simelar length.

I have twin girls with non-matchy names but both two syllables and with a 'c' sound in them, by coincidence really. We never entertained the idea of matching names, how horrid.

From your list I like Molly and Joshua, I love the simpler names. Also my name is a variant on Amelie and it is bloody EVERYWHERE at the moment. Every time I go to the supermarket I get some mum or other screeching my name out, and I always think she's shouting at me.

Sorry, not much help really.

Lovely name choices. Agree with everyone else non matching names is definitely best. We have a few twins in our family, and the only ones that were 'matchy' ended up that way by their own choice. Christened Agatha and Helen they ended up as Peg and Pat (Peg's middle name was Margaret, not sure how Pat came about)

I particularly like Susannah and Theodore and agree that twins' name should not 'match' - they are two siblings, just like any others, just that they share the same birthday imo.

...I think that we would name them..."Chastity" and "Chase".

I know twins called Nadia and Aidan I kinda like it if you "have" to match.

Of your suggested names I prefer Susannah & Isaiah

I met a guy at uni called Lloyd. I didn't know him particularly well at first, he was more of an acquaintance for the first 2ish years i knew him. After a few years i found out he was a twin (identical) - something like that is always a bit of a shock.

Anyway, so I met his twin for the first time a few years a go at a BBQ, his name is Storm. Yup, thats his actual name, on his passport...

Sounds like an obvious case of, mum picks one name, dad picks the other. Storm and Lloyd. I think matching names are a bit cringey, but dont choose names that are SO far off each other IMO.

Gabriel and Juliet.