Twin girls! Ottilie? Ophelia? Eloise?

[Sunflowers1999]

Ottilie, Ophelia and Eloise are the top three choices here. I love the matching initials of two O names (not concerned about post, etc. My two sisters and I have the same initials and have never had issues!) but have also loved Eloise for years, so would love some help!

Eloise and think again for twin 2. I'm not keen on either Ottilie or Ophelia.
But suspect my suggestions will be equally against your taste! Eloise and Margot? Eloise and Clara?

This. I don't have twins but I agree with all of it.

Eloise and Ottiile sounds best to me. Ophelia is too closely associated with Hamlet in my mind and wheb was a very tragic character

I prefer different initials but they’re all nice names. I’d go ottilie and Eloise probably

I think Ophelia is less liable to be considered pretentious than Ottilie!

Eloise is beautiful but I really dislike the other two. They are current, pretentious sounding fads and I don't get why either is suddenly so popular.

Obviously you do love them, and you are the one who is expecting, so of course it's up to you, but I would strongly recommend only using one, with Eloise being the other name. You may not care about the matching initials but they are way too samey. They may be twins but they are also individuals so I think their names should reflect that.

Ottillie and Eloìse. Ophelia killed herself, I think it has negative connotations

None of them are to my taste, so my opinion is probably irrelevant! But I think Eloise is the best of the bunch.

I find Ophelia very OTT and frilly, personally. And Ottilie seems to have come from nowhere and is now the name of every other baby girl. Plus, it sounds to me like “utterly”.

Charlotte is a lovely way to get Lottie! So I’d pick Charlotte and Eloise.

Same here, but I'd go for Louise and Charlotte. Royal, non-faddy names, and not too long.

ETcome home would be a great give to call out in the park!

In that case, I'd go with Eloise and Charlotte.

Ottilie is unaccountably (imo) extremely popular, begs the nickname 'hottie', and Ophelia lends itself to 'feel ya' remarks.

Alternatives:
Eloise and Iris
Eloise and Leonore
Eloise and Beatrix
Eloise and Rowena
Eloise and Arabella
Eloise and Romilly
Eloise and Jessamine

Same!

Personally I know 3 young children called Ottilie so it’s become very popular. And personally not a huge fan of super popular names.

The most famous Ophelia is the one from Hamlet, who was driven mad and drowned herself in the river. Quite a sad story to name a baby after!

I love Ottilie and Eloise

Ottilie and Aurora

Ottilie and Oriel

Ottile and Aurelie

Lottie or Lettie are great.
But they feel a bit forced coming from Ottilie. How about Charlotte, Lettice or Letitia?

Charlotte and Eloise
Lettuce and Eloise
Letitia and Eloise

Ophelia is definitely too frilly and try hard for me.

the Ottilies I know are usually shortened to Otti rather than anything else (I know 3, 2 of whom are babies.)

I’d go with ottilie and Eloise, from your selection. Would you consider elodie? I always think Elodie and ottilie go beautifully together! I agree with PP about not both the same initial.

I hope you are a very wealthy upper middle class family because anywhere else these names are pretentious and will stand out

Are they adults trying to get loans, mortgages, applying for DBS checks? Come on. Don't make their life any more complicated than it needs to be.

Ophelia and Eloise for me - both have an elegant, romantic feel imo, without sounding too matchy. But if you do want to embrace the matchy thing, you can always nn them Effie and Ellie! (until they rebel when older and insist on being Fi and Lou or something 🤣)

I like Eloise (that spelling, not Elouise which I believe has a different derivation).

Of your other choices, I think I would choose Ottilie over Ophelia - mainly based on the fact that Ophelia has a specific touchpoint for most people in the English-speaking word, and it's not a positive reference - but also just because I think Ottilie is a nicer set of sounds.

On the question of short forms/diminutives - my parents consciously gave me what they thought was a classic, international name and then abbreviated it to an "everyday" diminutive pretty much unknown at the time outside of their home country. Some people initially misspelled and mispronounced my "known as" name, but they never disrespected it or tried to override it. I think that if you make it clear right away - for example, my parents did a birth announcement like: "Meet Lottie (Ottilie Elizabeth) Smith!" - you set the tone. Then just be consistent about it over time. If SHE eventually wants Tilly, then that can happen, but I don't think that most people will intentionally Tilly a Lottie against her will.

I agree with others - Ottilie and Ophelia are totally pretentious, fussy, toff names that would be okay in a posh private school but not so good in a state secondary! Eloise is okay but nothing special to me. Syllables is something to consider too. These names have 3 or 4 and depending on your surname, that could be flipping mouthful - especially for shy child to say.

Actually Ophelia and Ottilie would be good names for cats!