Twin name help!

[TillyLucille]

Hi! Our twin girls could make an appearance anyday now and we are still struggling on finalising their names! I've posted on a couple of other sites but we need all the help we can get lol.

We will be naming one of our girls Violet but we're still undecided on her sister's name. It will either be Darcey/Darcy or Penelope. Nicknames will be LettY (Violet), Cece (Darcey) and Penny or Poppy (Penelope)

We then have these full name options to chose from...

Violet Cecilia Terese & Penelope Margot Kate, Penelope Beatrix Kate or Penelope Winter Kate

Violet Cecilia Kate & Penelope Hazel Terese

Violet Penelope Kate & Darcey Ophelia Terese

Violet Penelope Terese & Darcey Aurora Kate or Darcey Aurora Caitlin

Which do you prefer; Darcey or Penelope? Also, which full names would you go with? We're not wanting matchy names for our girls but we would prefer for them to sound nice together and be similar in style.

A bit of background: We're using two middle names; one of our choice and our honor names, Kate and Terese. Using two middle names is set. Our surname is short, one syllable and begins with Y. Our surname has been very difficult to work with! We had settled on Violet and Aurora for first names since finding out we were having two girls, we then realised Aurora sounded awful with our surname. We then went through a very long list of potential names and decided on Cecilia to again have to give it up because of our surname. That left us with Penelope which we love and couldn't imagine not using somewhere now. Losing Cecilia, with the nickname Cece, was really tough however so we decided to play around with our other options and decided to either use it as Violet's middle name or debated using Felicity (Cici) or Darcey instead of Penelope. We recently gave up Felicity as it didn't work for us and with our other options. Ophelia is the middle name we always thought we'd use with Violet but bumped it for Cecilia when we couldn't use it as a first.

Sorry for that long winded post! Thank you so much for all your help.

@HotCrossBunFight I guess technically we all impose names onto our children. We have no way of knowing what name they liked to be called. At least with a nickname then can change it when they're older if they want to. I personally don't know my name and always go by my nickname but I don't resent my parents for choosing it. There's nothing wrong with it, I just don't like it.

Thank you ❤️

@lovemylover Yeah, we thought it could be potentially confusing to do that lol. We tried to not do matchy names with them, they already have so much in common and we're never going to be able to stop people from calling them 'the twins' even if we intend to be as pretentious to try and stop it by always referring to them by their names, individually instead.

Tiredness typos. I don't like my name, i obviously know it 😂

Penelope Margot Kate. Lovely.

I was given a middle name which i have always been known by, except at School or Drs or Hospital etc, i never know who they are referring to when called by my first name.so tend to ignore
Why do parents do that,?

@lovemylover Why do parents chose to use different names to the ones on their BC? I don't know.

I think most people naturally shorten names especially longer ones. Violet is 3 syllables and Penelope is 4 so we knew we'd be using one so discussed which ones we like. We'll still be using their names alongside them; they'll be Violet and Penelope, we won't state, that we'd only like them to be called their nicknames at all times and won't actually be using their middle names in day to day life.