I’ve named Four Kids, here’s my advice on naming your child

[Yohannette]

Hi, I’m Yohannette (everyone calls me Hanna) and I’ve hated my name for a long time. So I found out I was pregnant with my first two children me and my partner wanted to make sure the names for our expectant twin girls have to be perfect. I just want to say now that there are so many websites that can come up with the weirdest names for twins. While searching we found suggestions for things like Daisy and Maisy, Willow and Elm, and my personal faverioute, Blackpool and Liverpool. I have nothing against these names and I actually called my third girl Maisy, but the fact that you would rhyme it is beyond me. It was these terrible suggestions that made me and my wife realise that we wanted our kids to have names that not only sounded nice but meant something. We searched through diary pages to find memorable places that names weren’t insane, we talked to relatives about their or their parents names, sifting through all this history as well as numerous lists of what would be the “next big thing” in baby names. By using all this different sources we somehow managed to find two names that we love every time we hear them, Stella-Marnie (Star from the Sea) Audrey Thomas. This was perfect because we fell in love with the meaning of the first name and I proposed in front of an Audrey Hepburn film. And Georgia London Thomas, Georgia is the name of my wife’s grandmother, and we met in London.

I hope this hope has helped you in the search to find the perfect name for you new born.
Hanna

QOD, you can't see that gif too many times. Cracks me up.

See with my kids...I just randomly flicked the pages of a naming book, closed my eyes and pointed to a name.

That's why my two are named 100 Best Names (Hun for short) and Naming your baby (bay for short)

Stella Marnie would be changed to Stella Artois around here

People don't like unsolicited advice OP.

Bay is a lovely name.

Although everyone would assume she was conceived next to a sandcastle.

@QOD x3

I named my brother, think I just didn't get very far in the baby name.

I could name my baby after the morning after pill that failed, that is a very meaningful thing from my relationship. Levon for a boy or Elle for a girl. How 'bout that OP?

I think twin names should vaguely match - I wouldn't double barrel one and not another

Y'all are so mean!!!

Whatever happened to "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"

Dread to think of the morals you're all raising your kids with. Big meanies!

Thanks for putting the effort in to do something nice Hanna

Great!! Ive got names for my next 3 kids. Thanks OP. You don’t mind 3 other siblings having the exact same name as your DC, do you?

Savoy do you think people don’t actually have twins in real life? Or am I more likely to be a liar because I have twins?

Just curious...

I like my name very much

A friend of mine couldn’t decide so went for putting a pin in the baby names book.

Unfortunately her not-so-DH was a) a bit of a practical joker and b) studying for his medical finals at the time.

Little Gonorrhoea is 5 now. Her classmates call her Rhea.

I wouldn’t normally say this about someone’s kids names, but your op is so smug, I think the names you’ve chosen are horrendous and I would definitely roll my eyes if I heard them in real life.

You had to search through your diary to remember that you'd been to London?

I am naming one twin Hannah and the other Banana.

I thought you were Mansplaining...then it turned out you are not a man!

Hmm... you do know that Alfred Hitchcock made up the name Marnie? Stella Maris means star of the sea.

Did you become a naming expert because your parents messed up so badly? sorry, have I gone too far with that comment?

I think the names you’ve chosen are horrendous and I would definitely roll my eyes if I heard them in real life.

Now come on, BigPinkBall, Audrey's not so bad...

I really love going to Stonehenge and always thought it would be an epic name for a tortoise. But DP says if we had a tortoise he'd want to name it Nottingham.

@dahlietta if you’re a 70 year old ....

I would expect Stella to be pronounced how it should be

With an over exaggerated shout of STELLLLLLAAAAA

People seem to have taken this thread terribly seriously, seems a bit harsh.

Stonehenge is a fantastic name for a tortoise!!

There's nothing much wrong with Stella, Georgia and Maisy, by the way... But WHAT is your fourth child's name?

And y'know, those names don't really suit every baby, what with babies all coming from different cultures and classes.