Doris and Ernest

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One of the One Direction boys has become the older sibling to boy/girl twins named Doris and Ernest.

Thoughts?

Could have been worse - imagine if they'd been twin boys, Ernest & Albert

I'm not a huge fan of the granny chic movement. There are some 'vintage' (Edwardian would it be?) names that are quite pretty sounding; Florence for example. However, many are clunky & ugly sounding to my ears; Ethel, Mavis, Beryl. Not nice sounds. Doris & Ernest are deep in clunky territory. Each to their own though! If they'll be known as Dolly & Ernie it's not quite so bad .

My paternal grandad is called 'Ernest', which I can't get past, but if I try and remove myself it sounds quite nice. I like the association with 'to be earnest' that I hear in my head.

Doris sounds like a name you might call your hamster or goldfish as a joke though, sorry.

Aah they were my grandparents' names. Doris and Ernie. Definitely should stay in that era though.

Just dreadful.

Honestly they're awful names. I can't imagine a beautiful baby girl being called Doris! Ernest isn't as bad but it's still not a great name. But congratulations to Louis's family.

My headteacher at junior schoool was Ernest Smelt.

I know a kid called Ernie, it's a great name. Doris will probably get shortened to Dolly which is pretty cool

One of my relatives was Ernie Gerney. His party piece was singing 'Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west'

Good names for guinea pigs.

Doris is the female Wally.

Trying to hard to be different and getting it wrong.

Awful names. There are some lovely 'old' names-these aren't.

Poor, poor children!

I would have been in the camp for Doris but a friend had a little girl they named Doris and the name really suits her, they mainly call her "Dore" though.

Ernest is yuck, but I guess Ernie goes along quite well with the crop of little Stanleys and Archies.

I have experience of these names she will end up as Doll and he will be Ern and even Big Ern, horrible.

Sweet old folks names - but would never in a million years choose them for babies.

Doris - similar aesthetic to Andy Capp's wife, I imagine. I hated Ernest until one of my Korean students chose it as his western name - he's made it cool somehow, a bit Pink Panther/raffish.

Bloody awful. People on twitter are ripping the names to shreds.

Ernest is sweet. I dislike Doris. It's Louis who's the sibling now? I think that's the second set of twins in the family. I can see Ernie being quite a cute nickname for a toddler.

I like them both. They make a refreshing change from all the usual suspects.

To be honest, I find Florence a clunky dowdy sort of name, so it's purely a matter of taste.

They are both the sorts of names that once a baby was called it, the name would very soon become accepted and normal.

I think they are ahead of the curve.

Utterly hideous.

I know of siblings Doris and Ernest - they'll be in their teens now. Apparently their parents picked their names by looking at grave stones in a cemetary!!

Wow she has loads of kids!

Louis
Charlotte
Félicité
twins Daisy and Phoebe
twins Doris and Ernest

Poor old Doris and Ernest.

Ernie, wasn't he the fastest Milkman in the West?

I don't mind them, quite sweet really.

Awful, awful. 'Granny chic' gone mad.