Our name choices don’t seem very liked

[Fritesky]

DH and I have just had our twin baby girls, they are 3 weeks old and we have named them Gigi and Lola. We love their names and put a lot of time into picking them. We are a Anglo-Franco-Italian family so tried really hard to pick names that everyone would be a fan of.
Since then we’ve told family, friends etc. our babies names and got lots of “oh are the nicknames” and “oh that’s interesting”, which I guess just makes me feel really crappy. We haven’t registered the girls yet so we could change the names, but I’m not sure if I want to. Their full names are Gigi Apolline and Lola Gabrielle.

What are your thoughts?

A French Apolline would never be shortened to Polly, because it sounds like the word "polite".

Gigi does sound like a
nickname or pet name tbf.

Yes this puts it well, I couldn’t quite explain myself but I agree

I think they’re lovely names. Really cute and feminine. Congratulations 🥂

This. Sorry.

Apolline and Gabrielle are fab names. Gigi and Lola are definitely on the eurotrashier end of the naming spectrum- sorry. Any chance you might swap the names around?

This from me I’m afraid — I love Apolline and like Gabrielle, but, like a pp, Gigi and Lola sound very Moulin Rouge to me — the film Gigi is about a girl being brought up to be a high class courtesan/prostitute and Lola/Dolores is the name of the titular character in Lolita and also the Kinks’ song Lola, about a casual sexual encounter with a showgirl/gender-ambiguous person in a SoHo bar.

It’s not your age, just as much younger sibling in her early 20s and she said Gigi is okayish on its own but needs to be short for something otherwise unserious - makes you think Gigi Hadid. Lola just reminds her of a child who was abused due to the book. Together Gigi and Lola just makes you think of women of the night or dancers etc the names have been used through out film and literature hence the connotation.

Op the middle names would be better as first names.

That was my immediate thought (two toy poodles wearing bows in their hair).

The names are nice as nicknames but I would give them longer more sophisticated names they can shorten them to, and lengthen when they are adult women. Even Gigi Hadid isn’t really Gigi.

Honestly when they are combined I do think sex worker, because of Gigi the courtesan and Lola the showgirl. Sorry 😬

Yes agree. Could you call them Poppy and Gabby for short?

Lola is sweet, but to me a gigi is a nickname for a horse.

I agree with Breadstick sorry. Together they are too sexualised. Were you really unaware of the cultural references of both names? And together it’s too much.

I like Lola but if being honest Gigi does sound like a nickname, could you not name her Gabrielle but Gigi for short, and think of a different middle name for Lola? Or Gianna is lovely too

My family didn't like one of my daughters names but whilst it was abit upsetting to hear that, I don't really care because I love her name!

They’re 3 weeks old, family and friends are saying they’re not keen on them as full first names.

I say Gigi with a soft g, I don’t like geegee as in horses. More zhi zhi.

Those names are not what I expected at all, from the title. They’re LOVELY!
Congratulations 🥰

Agree with the Moulin Rouge vibes.

I know several Lolas, all in their 20s, it has been popular for a while. Lola is the nickname for Dolores, and Gigi for Giselle. I prefer the longer forms by a mile. Lola I think of the Kinks song, and the Barry Manilow song, so not great associations ! They do sound like Moulin Rouge characters as a pp said.
I do have a general dislike of nicknames being used as the whole name , so that also colours my view.

Also I think they wouldn’t give off quite so much showgirl vibes separately — they are cute names on their own — it’s just together that they really multiply the Moulin Rouge vibes. Sorry OP, can you give them longer names and just use the short names as nicknames?

Congratulations! Your babies , your names ❤️

Not keen on these names at all. But its your choice. Gigi is awful. You need to rethink that one.

They are lovely names ...
Mind you I know a very rude version no of the song Gigi whose real words are:
Gigi, am I a fool without a mind
Or have I merely been too blind to realize?

The words I know are:
Gigi, are you a girl without a c**t, or have I got you back to front, or upside down?

If you know the tube it is more effective. Sorry to lower the tone!

Both you choices of names are lovely!

Stripper names
Burlesque strippers
Feathers in their hair and nd a top cut down to there

Tune, not tube ...