Can I have a Charles and a Charlotte?

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Hi there. Twins are due reasonably soon. We both love Charles and Charlotte. Although they mean the same and are the female/male equivalent, they just seem like different names, IMO. 100% they would be Charlie and Lottie :) thank you x

No. Silly idea.

Nope.

I love the joint 'Charlottie' suggestion

Seriously, you can't name your twins Charles and Charlotte imo. They may well both end up as Charlies as, even if you prefer Lottie, your dd's friends may well call her Charlie.

OP you asked But why would she want to change her NN to her brother's name?

The answer is she wouldn't, but her friends would because that's what happens in the playground and she would have no control at all over what name she becomes known as generally. Whether you've heard it or not, Charlie is an increasingly popular abbreviation of Charlotte and I imagine the majority of Charlottes get Charlied fairly regularly.

I know so many parents who have insisted that their dc's name is Thomas, Joseph or Isobel and that is what they are to be called, but by the time that kid is ten they are known by all and sundry as Tom, Joe or Izzy and it's only their parents who still stubbornly stick with the original. Even teachers will pick up on the abbreviations the children call each other. It's just human nature.

Surely there must be one other name you could agree on instead?

Friends do whatever they want to so you'd end up with Chas and Chaz.

If you love royal names so much you could go for Charles and Camilla instead

For the record all the Charlottes I've ever know have had the NN Charlie or, most often, Char(Shar)

You never get to dictate what your DCs friends will call them. Never.

Don't do it. Why would you want to?
Fairly unanimous replies on here. Don't ignore them. (I'm a twin btw, very different names).

No, Charles and Charlotte doesn't work.

How about Charles and Harriet, or Henry and Charlotte, which have a similar feel.

No. Sorry. Absolutely not.

Charlotte has the same name origin as Charles.
They are the same name, just the masculine and feminine forms of it.

You can't call your children the same name as each other imo. Not when they are both really similar forms of the name..

FWIW DD has a friend called Charlotte who is known as Charlie. It is not an unusual nn for Charlotte.

Oh, I want to have twins called Charles and Harriet!

I wish I could find a way of saying inoffensively that calling twins Charles and Charlotte shows that you are possibly not very well educated, but I can't. So I won't say it.

Someone on here couldn't understand why she couldn't call Henry's brother Harry. That's even worse.

yes of course you can, in the family of NO IMAGINATION

i once worked with a guy called Jim short for James, and his twin was called Hamish....basically a scottish version of James ....how lazy and unimaginative must his parents have been?

A child's name isn't about imagination it's about choosing a name you like, not what the most imaginative combo is!

James and Hamish sound different though, and would not end up being abbreviated to the same name.

James and Jacob are "the same name", but would still be fine because nobody treats one as a shortening of the other any more.

John and Jack similarly. (JFK remember)

Charles and Charlotte - just no.

Lotta is a lovely name!

No! Too similar and at some stage the girl will be known as Charlie by someone

I love it but my DS have names that are anagrams

It would sound like you popped out baby1 and decided to call it Charles and then, in the exhaustion and relief of finally popping out baby2, had a bit of a senior moment and decided to call baby 2 the same name...only realising later that she is a girl and you needed to tweak it to the feminine version.

I don't think it's about having to come up with an imaginative combo....

It's just about looking like you could actually be arsed to come up with a second name.

Don't be silly, op. Of course you can't call your twins the male and female equivalent of the same name!
(Because then you would be like my gmil who ran out of imagination after several children, calling the last two Bernard and bloody Bernadette!)

No. It' really daft and they might both end up being called Charlie by other people outside the family.

I remember someone on Big Brother called Anthony saying his twin was called Antonia and I thought his parents probably weren't the brightest couple on the block.

You can't do this.

I have brother and sister cousins who are Nicole and Nicholas and... Please do not do anything like this to your children.

Oliver and Charlotte would be gorgeous. Teddy, Ollie and Lottie?
William and Charlotte would be gorgeous too. Teddy, Billy and Lottie would be fantastic. Really, really nice imo.

Go back with DP/DH and write new lists. There has to be something else besides Charles/Charlotte that you can get reasonably positive about.

Teddy Ollie and Lottie or Charley would be lovely, I agree.

Or Frederick/Freddie for the boy, also lovely with Charlotte.