TWIN BOYS

[egj1212]

Okay, so I'm expecting twin boys! Crazy!
These are our name sets so far, which do you prefer?

• Matthew and Zachary
• Alfie and Louie
• Dylan and Ethan
• Noah and Evan
• Harry and Tommy

The middle names will be Luke and Jake :)

Thanks x

Options 1 or 4 - the others are a bit 'matchy'

Try shouting them out loud together (seriously you'll be doing this a LOT) and see how they sound. Do they run together or are they distinct names.

They are all really nice but I'm wondering why you are thinking about them in pairs? It sounds like you are trying to make them match each other. Wouldn't it be best to just choose your two favourite names.

Honestly, I just think certain names can't be paired together! So, yeah - I kinda want them to go with each other and even more so if they're twins - which may sound bad, or not what everyone would do, but it's something DH and I like :)

Matthew and Zachary are my favourites.

Congratulations!! 3 & 4 are my favorite.

Matt and Zac (as they'll get known as) are very similar l think.

I know what you mean about names, l thought the same when choosing dd2 name.

I like Matthew and Tommy (Matt and Tom)

Love Noah and Evan.

I like Dylan and Ethan best.

Alfie Luke and Louis Jake would be lovely

(Prefer Louis spelt with an 's' on the end)

To mix the sets up a bit I also like:

Noah Jake and Dylan Luke
Noah Jake and Harry Luke
Dylan Luke and Harry Jake

Alfred and Laurence. So Alfie and Laurie

Matthew and Zachary, sound fab! but i'd also like Noah and Ivan (not Evan).

Sorry to repeat but I don't get the matching thing either. I have twins and we just talked through our favourite boys and girls names. We had four boys names we liked pretty equally and each had a favourite girls name that's the other also liked. Twos DDs would have meant a favourite each and we would have gradually narrowed down the boys if we had two DSs. As it was, DD got my favourite (I did carry and birth them after all ) and we narrowed down to joint favourite for DS.

There names in no way match but they both have names we love.

Obviously your kids so your rules but I'd pick your favourite two and only discount if they rhyme or alliterate.

OP - think you have to choose you favourite name and then the one that goes best with that? Surely Matthew (for example) would go with all your choices? The only 2 I wouldn't pair would be Evan and Ethan.

I think they're too matchy sound-wise. So I would go for something like Matthew and Ethan.

Another twin mum here who would advise steering clear of any 'matching set' type names. Seriously, these aren't just babies you're naming, they're school children, teenagers, grown men - they don't want to feel like they're half of a gift pack .

There are 10 quite different names there. I think you need to pick your two favourite individual names, and then work out which middle names go with which. Anything but Ethan and Evan would work together.

I would swap them about and have Matthew Jake and Noah Luke , if your concern is that one has a long name and one short , Matthew becomes Matt and Noah stays as Noah .

I have an Evan. Lovely name. I think it's quite different and haven't found it to be too popular which is what Iike. So on that basis I would go maybe Evan & Zachary. My youngest boy is Teddy. I think that goes well too.

Good luck.

Matthew & Zachary from your lists.

Matthew Jake and Harry Luke are lovely names.

As babies says you've got to remember that the cutie baby twins stage is short lived. Teens will not thank you for matching their names.

Hope you're feeling OK

I wouldn't do pairs,pick two favourite names.
I like Evan, Matthew, Zachary and Dylan.

I think some of you are being a bit unfair to the OP. It's not like she is calling them Leo and Theo. Most people pick names that 'go' with sibling names.
The only pairing I would say was remotely matchy is Evan and Noah because of the film Evan Almighty.

Am sorry if it came across as unfair - honestly wasn't the intention but maybe I was being thoughtless.

I think all of the names are great and I think all of them could be paired together with the exception of Evan and Ethan which would be a bit too similar for me. I just wanted to express that I didn't see why OP couldn't have a Matthew and a Harry. My pair are a 70s classic with granny chic combo (think Christopher and Ivy or Caroline and Stanley) and it's never crossed my mind that this is a problem.

Anyway, OP enjoy the crazy world of twins!

I like Evan and Noah.

We have twin boys and we chose names based on what we liked but also based on what they sounded like together - we had to say no to Alex and Fergus because it made us think of Alex Ferguson!

Congrats OP, twins are super

I like Dylan and Ethan but I actually prefer the middle names! Luke and Jake would be cute!

Noah and Evan. Lovely names :)