Twin girl names

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Which names work best for twin girls:

Elizabeth known as Eliza & Matilda known at Tilda

Dorothea known as Dora and Wilhelmina known as Willa

Otillie known as Tilly and Isadora known as Dora

Beatrice known as Bea and Elixabeth known as Eliza

My favourite combination would be Bea and Eliza I think Eliza and Willa could work too.

Otillie and Isadora are lovely names with great shorter versions.

I like Tilly and Dora too - seems balanced (2 syllables in each name). our neighbour's dog is called Willa which is my only reason for not liking it for one of your girls, but they're all lovely names.

Just be careful picking names where there is a more usual nickname, so for instance Liz / Beth / Libby are all more usual shortened versions of Elizabeth than Eliza and if you're set on a particular nickname, its quite difficult to maintain that as they get older (school / friends etc may use something you're not fond of).

Congratulations on your twin pregnancy too [I'm a twin and have twins! Its fab]

I like Dorothea and Wilhelmina

I like the Dorothea & Wilhelmina pairing, but prefer Thea and Mina as the shortened versions.

Eliza and Tilda or Tilly. Don't like Dora at all.

Elizabeth and Matilda are the nicest.

However, as an Elizabeth, can I just mention that no one has ever tried to call me Eliza. It's a very different sound than the Eliza- sound in Elizabeth, and Eliza is an accepted standalone name. So, if you have your heart set on Eliza, I would advise you just to use Eliza alone. Everyone has always assumed to shorten my name to Liz or Lizzy. Yes, I could correct them to Eliza if I wanted to, but that won't stop people assuming I go by Liz(zy) for short.

The Wilhelmina I know gets called Billie. I prefer that to Willa. I prefer Dora as a nickname for Theodora. I never know how to pronounce Dorothea.

I don't like Otillie at all. It reminds me of otters, or the word "oddly". Isadora is alright, however.

Beatrice sounds foul in my Australian accent, but is much nicer in an English accent (we condense it to two syllables here - Bee-tress, like beetroot). I think I prefer Beatrix.

Eliza and Bea runs the risk of sounding like a single NN "Eliza B", rather than two separate people

Dora the Explorer is too prevalent at the moment for my liking as a name

I like Elizabeth and Matilda - both strong historical queens

I love Willa

Twin girls I would have one with an A name and one with a Z name but that's just me so perhaps Athena Alamathia and Zophora or Zillha

None of your names are to my taste, however I like Matilda and Elizabeth best.

I'm really not keen on Dorothea and Wilhelmina, they're too long and I struggled to spell them (but that could be my dyslexia). Their nicknames are even worse imo, especially Dora.

If your that set on Eliza, why not put Eliza on the birth certificate? It's a perfectly acceptable name.

I have to admit that Dorothea and Wilhelmina are my favourites but I know they are marmite names.

Dorothea is a family name. I love that it can be Dora, Dotty, Dot, Dodo, Thea etc. It's so versatile

Wilhelmina can be Willa, Billie, Mimi, Mina or Nina.

What about Dorothea known as Thea and Wilhelmina known is Mimi or Nina?

Willa is a name in it's own right.

Willa and Dorothea go well.

I know a wilhelmina nn Willow.

I love Wilhelmina as Nina. Also like Willa.

Dorothea as Thea or Dolly sounds great with it too.

I much prefer long names. My other children all have at least three syllables but shortened nicknames.

Wilhelmina and elisabeth. Will and Bess

Prefer Theodora to Dorothea as you get all the same nicknames.

Theodora and elisabeth

Theodora is out because I have a Theodore nn Ted.

We did consider Arianna and Aurelia but couldn't think of a nickname for Aurelia.

There's also Aurora

Nick name aura or Rory

Such beautiful name choices.
Dd3 is Theodora which we shorten to Dora, if we ever not likely have any more then ottilie and willa are on the cards.

My vote goes to Isadora and Otilie