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

Thanks for mansplaining that for us 👍🏼👏🏽

That's a sweet post. Why all the negativity???

Cillit and Bang would be my twins names. Or Rita-Sue and Bob-Too for a bit of sophistication. I want twins now.

I think it's more bemusement than negativity at his idea we need his guide on perfecting twin names and how he perfected his.

Well I take EVERYTHING on MN as Gospel- even advice on naming my babies!

Our surname is Tzeela (like Tzilla, but...you know...more pretentious)

We named one twin Soph

And the other one Teet.

Because, you know, MN.

Did we do good?

Oh...and, ps, I am a self-admitted twat because not only do I have kids with weird; matching names, there's y's where there should be e's, a hyphen...twattish, I tells ya! 😂

OP would Marvel and Dee-cee be ok in your professional opinion? They don't rhyme

I now want a tortoise so that I can call it Stonehenge.

And as for naming your baby after the place of conception...

Alley Way may eork- you could do it like "Ahl! Whé?

Now...how do I bling up Kitchen Counter?

Kyschyn Cwnta?
Khishian Couhntre?

Fuck this...I'm getting beer and putting Button Moon on...it's Saturday after all! 😂

I used to tell people that I was going to go with Bible names:

Judas for a boy and Jezebel for a girl. I then used to do a simple dog head tilt pretending I didn’t understand why that wasn’t a good idea because I’d picked them from the Bible.

Just to explain a Moonraker is someone born in Wiltshire. But I think I might change my name to that, I could be Moonie for short.

String

😂 my husband keeps looking at me due to snorting at this thread.

If I had twins with my husband at 50 and having had the equipment necessary to grow another little sod and we were going on the premise of naming them where we met then my new D.C. would be called Face and Book.

HTH inspire others...

Spartacunt
Pissing myself at adding a bit of sophisitication at Rita-Sue and Bob-Too.

I'm gutted now that I chose the wrong names for my DCs. If only MN and Yohannette had been there to advise me I wouldn't have gone for the safe classic names I gave them. Is it too late to ask my now adult DCs is they would be willing to change their names by deed poll to something else.

Isn't Maisy spelt Maisie?

I'm in Wiltshire and there's a hotel called The Moonraker very near me.

Was an excellent Pokemon hot spot.

You're all being a little bit mean to op, this is perhaps an example why Mumsnet gets a bad name sometimes for not being as encouraging as it could be. I'm sure Op meant well and just wanted to share what she perceived to be useful advice. Op though, I think you're preaching to the converted here, the advice you gave is exactly the kind of though processes people use anyway when naming babies. You haven't offered anything particularly revolutionary and people don't appreciate being patronised I'm afraid. It was interesting to her your Dc's names though, a good mix of interesting without being too quirky im(not expert)o.

ps Yohannette shorterned to Hanna is pretty cool im(again not expert)opinion

Stella-Marnie? It doesn't mean star of the sea, sorry. Are you one of those people who gets tattoos in foreign languages that don't mean what they thing.

Gah DP has just reminded me of our old neighbours who had twin boys, their (thankfully only) middle names were Jack & Daniel, because that’s what they were conceived on
She told everybody this when they were born too

@Alpacages 😂😂😂

"perhaps an example why Mumsnet gets a bad name sometimes for not being as encouraging as it could be. I'm sure Op meant well"

And perhaps shouid have lurked for a bit to get an idea of the site, before sticking her feet right in it.

Though if you have an Audrey's that opens up a whole new world of compelmentary names: Gail, Deirdre, Tracey, Betty, Gloria, Rita, Mavis, Ena, Elsie, Raquelle, Eileen, Susan, Emily, Alma, Ivy, Vera

And for their brothers: Ken, Jack, Terry, Norman, Geoffrey, Albert, Mike, Peter, Alec, Len, Alan

Why do people keep accusing OP of mansplaining? I assumed she was female since her name ends in "ette" and her nickname is Hanna.

RE: the weirdness of this thread though - I think OP maybe just doesn't 'get' exactly how forums work, and most likely didn't intend this post to sound the way many of us perceived it. Do you ever see your elderly aunts commenting on random Facebook photos saying "why is this on my page?" etc? (Not saying that OP is elderly or stupid or anything, just pointing out that many people don't know the nuances of different forms of online socialising)

It’s all gone a bit Den of Vipers..

How about Xalted and Karamelle?

Loving Stonehenge for a tortoise, but only if it’s six inches high, {and a model}. Could you imagine a six foot tortoise? All a bit Jurassic Park.

Welcome to MN Hanna 💐🎂

If I named my dd after the alcohol I drank when she was conceived it would have been Cherry.... I drank cherry sourz and lemonade

"If I named my dd after the alcohol I drank when she was conceived"

Now I understand my mamma!