Audrey or Maude

[everly]

For twin sister to Margot.

Maybe it's because there was more than one Great Aunt Maud in my family and they all looked like this on old photos, this is what Maud/Maude brings to mind for me.
It also sounds like mould, morbid and maudlin.
So Audrey by default!

I love the name Maude/Maud, such a pretty name!

Sorry both just awful and old fashioned. I have twin girls and I wouldn’t have traumatised them with such names

I think Audrey and Margot sound lovely together and love both. (Disclaimer, I have a 12 yr old dd with one of them though so am biased!)

Both are utterly awful. I'm sorry.

Awful , depressing names but if pushed I’d go for Audrey just so they don’t have the same initial .

@TeenLifeMum They don't befit girls. It was Leigh/Lee and Lesley/Leslie in my youth and look how those sound now.

Don't use the same initials for twins. M Smith - which one etc?
Maud is beyond dowdy imo and I'd feel hard done by if my twin sister was Margot (lovely) and I was Maud. Not too keen on Audrey either.

Absolutely love Margot and would pair it with a Martha, Minnie or Maeve as I love those names too.
I already an Olive.

i personally don’t like either of the names you’ve suggested

Both of them are pretty dour sounding in my opinion. How about Vivienne to go with Margot?

Absolutely love Maud (without an ‘e’)! But I agree Audrey (also lovely) goes better with Margot.

They are both hideous sorry. There are hundreds and thousands of beautiful girl names out there. Why so dowdy?

Neither tbh

I think they’re both gorgeous, and Margot too. I voted for Maude, it sounds very glamorous and French to me and also reminds me of the Worst Witch, which is a very good thing imo. But as a pp said, it’s better to avoid matching initials for siblings, so I change my vote to Audrey - also very glamorous and makes me think of Audrey Hepburn.

Mabel is also very sweet, and I love the suggestion of Sylvie or Sylvia. But I think Matilda is very boring in comparison to the other suggestions. How about Bette?

Neither and Margot will spend her entire life being called Margaret.

I love the name Maud. It was one of our choices for third ( who was another boy). I love that it's a less usual form of Matilda. I'm jealous I won't have the chance to use it!

I appreciate your constructive feedback.
Sylvie and Daphne were my other to options to go with Margot.

Margot and Daphne is better.

Maude makes me think of the rather fierce medieval Queen Maud ( also known as Mathilda) who challenged King Stephen. Not sure that she was nice by modern standards (!) but certainly a strong woman.

Audrey is a beautiful name, but somehow Maud appeals more to me. I associate it with feistiness and drive (my own DD has that personality so I’m biased :-)

Sylvie and Daphne and Vivienne are great choices. Use your other ideas (Maude/Margot/Audrey) as middle names.

I would avoid alliterating your twins names. Your life (and theirs and their friends' and relatives') will be so much easier if you can tell their paperwork apart at a glance. People may struggle to distinguish them (even sisters of different ages have this problem) and alliterative names will not help. My relatives still struggle to spell DD2's conventional, Biblical, family sourced name correctly.

Neither of your choices appeals to me, but at a push, maybe Audrey - it was a name popular girls had when I was a school.
Maud(e), as others have said is a relentlessly dowdy, frumpy, old-lady name (and a diminuitive for Magdalen/Madeline (Brit pronunciation: Maudlin = foolishly sentimental); so you could go with Maddie or Magda). And Margot is a nickname for Margaret invented by people who couldn't cope with a classic name and its existing legion of diminuitives. (Maggie, Mags, Marj Margie, Marjorie, Marnie, Meg(s), Megan, Peg(gy)
Overall my advice is: back to to the drawing board

I always think that Margot and Eliza make an elegant pairing as they’re popular diminutives of the beautiful classics Margaret and Elizabeth.

Sylvie and Margot sound really good together to me. Gives me 1940s glamorous actress vibes lol.

I love Maud (e) dislike Audrey and Sylvie even worse it sounds like a elderly woman who used to run the post office.

Margot and Sylvie are perfect!
I personally wouldn’t go for two m names for twins

I hardly dare to ask but what is inherently wrong with running a post office and growing into maturity doing that?

Whatever name the OP chooses, I sincerely hope her daughter will eventually be an elderly woman (who used to do something). So her name will be that of exactly an elderly woman who used to …

Lordy!