B/G Twins

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Hello! Need some honest opinons on our name choices

We are having twins at the end of the month (B/G) and already have a DD called Saskia.

They will have long middle names, so we are thinking short names and it needs to work in Dutch.

Current favourite for our little girl is Rose. Others under consideration are

Alice
Anna
Anya
Sanne (Pronounced Sanna)

For our Boy the current favourite is Bram, which is derived from Abraham, but DH is not keen on having a full name on the BC and then a NN. So just Bram (popular Dutch name)

Other names considered

Eli
Noah
Johan

I liked Isaac too and Oscar but DH vetoed them.

Bram is great and goes well with all the girls names except Sanne (I think you'd be constantly having to spell or pn this in the UK).

Alice is my favourite for the girls but they are all really lovely. Not that keen on Eli, Isaac or Oscar, but like Johan.Noah is very 'done' in our neck of the woods.

Thanks, Alice was the front runner for months, and made we the mistake of floating names past a few people saying these are the type of names that we are thinking about and mentioned a few, and the universal response was "Who the fuck is Alice?"

The first time or 2 I thought it was just perhaps the people who I asked, but when my mum and sister said it, I had second thoughts!

Noah was what DD was going to be called, but it has got really popular since then, so I am concerned it might date. Not overly worried about the name being unusual or unique, but I have a 70s name which hasn't aged well so want to perhaps avoid that.

I love the combo of Rose and Bram :) I'd say go for that. Rose is very over used as a middle name or double-barreled first name (such as Lexi-Rose) but rarely used as a stand alone first name,which is always a plus!

Out of the other names I like the possible combo of Anya and Eli,not met anyone with either of those names but they're lovely :)

I really like Bram but would go for Abraham on bc, I think - or maybe Bramwell. Alice is far and away my favourite of the girls' names.

Love Sanne! Sanne on YouTube at the username booksandquills is a lovely dutch girl, which is where I know the name from.

So pretty!

I would go for Sanne and Bram.

This might not be important to you, but I also have B/G twins, and accidentally gave them names with the same number of letters. It was a happy accident. I find their names look good written down together or when printed stitched on to their belonging etc. It's a way to be twin-ish without being so matchy-matchy it's twee.

Hm it was so much easier with DD as we both liked the name imediately when we went through them together, and ddn't have to consider what it went well with!

Sanne & Bram

Sanne and Johan.

I think I am getting more confuzzled by the minute...may be they will pop out and we'll think yes you look like X & X!

Shameless bumping for more feedback

Rose and Bram just gorgeous!

Saskia, Rose and Johan.

Love Bram (pinching for my own longlist, sorry !), and quite like Eli. Noah is too overused now I think.

Anna or Sanne are nice. I don't really like Rose - not a fan of floral names.

What about Ruth? I think Bram and Ruth sounds really nice.

Rose and Bram are my favourites but I also like Alice and Anya for a girlsand Johan and Isaac for the boy.

I love Johan. Also like Bram.

My personal choice would be to go for something slightly more Dutch for the girl too - although Alice and Rose are lovely they are a bit English compared to Johan and Bram.

How about:

Elise
Eline
Julie
Marielle

Sanne would pass that test of course and is lovely.

So is Sanne not too close to Saskia in sound?

Rosa instead of Rose as it is less common.

For Sanne, if its pronounced as Sanna can you not spell it like that to save correcting all the time. Sanna is a city in Yemen & is used as a girls name in its own right in the middle east. I know of 2 so this spelling is known too.

I love Bram.

I wouldn't choose Sanne. It does sound too close to Saskia, IMO.

My preference would be Anna. You could then use Anya as a nickname. I wouldn't put the name Anya on a birth certificate, because I am not a fan of nicknames as given names. Obviously, many people feel differently, that's just my preference.