Tell me my kids names u going to be that bad.

[jonita2]

Im having twins, two girls and were thinking Clementine Catherine and Olive Odette. We like the matching fruit names, and Odette and Clementine both have French origin. Are they okay names?

*Typo in the post. I meant Tell me my kids names arent going to be that bad

I think they're really pretty names. If it was me, I'd call them Odette Olive and Clementine Catherine, or Odette Catherine and Clementine Olivia, because I think it's a shame to have the name Odette tucked away as a middle name. But any combo is gorgeous. Just, I'd avoid Clementine Olive, as that's pretty fruity 😂Clemmie and Odette. Such lovely names 😊

Lovely names, and I LOVE Olive 😍

I agree.

I like Clementine, am not particularly fond of Olive, but it's perfectly ok on it's own.

But then you are adding not one but two layers of gimmick: firstly the alliterative OO and CC, and then the pair of fruits "theme."

I'm afraid I just don't think its fair. They are real individuals and don't deserve to be packaged like the Two Ronnies or the branding for a Smoothie Company.

Clemmie and Odie sounds like the description of some particularly whiffy items in a laundry basket; "They are all clemmy and odie."

I would really hesitate if I were you.

Seconding (or thirding(?)) this.
Or swap about- Catherine Olive and Odette Clementine

I think they are lovely. There is nothing bad about them at all. I wouldn't immediately recognise them as both fruit names either
The only thing I might consider would be swapping the middle names around but it's not important and I assume you want them both to have a French name and a non french name so I can see why you want them to be as in your post.

I like this idea. Everything is still in there, it is just presented more elegantly.

Can I suggest Ettie as a nn for Odette?

Ideally all children would have fruit names.

I love these names together!! Gorgeous!

Matching fruit names? Now I’ve heard everything!

but actually they are nice names, congrats on the twins you are very lucky!

I don’t love the alliteration running through both names but I like the Christian names otherwise.

Satsuma Susan and Caper-berry Claire
Tangerine Tanya and Anchovy Annabella
Yuzu Yasmin and Pickle Pauline

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ps I LOVE tamarillos but they are so hard to find.

Does anyone else remember Strawberry Shortcake? And Blueberry Muffin, Raspberry Tart and friends?

Trying a bit too hard.

Tbh I think Olive is a well-enough-used name in it's own right for people's minds not to automatically go to the fruit, I'm not sure I'd immediately make the connection myself.

I love the name Odette though, so pretty, so personally I'd go with Clementine and Odette.

I prefer the middle names as first names. Clementine and Olive both sound ugly to me.

Siblings who both have fruit names is a bit gimmicky. Twins even more so.
I think olive or Olivia and odette separately are good. I think Olivia is a much nicer name than olive.

Melany?

I’m not keen on them together personally, I would go for Odette Olive - Clementine and Odette sound lovely together

I like Clementine and Odette together op. They both have that French feel (and less of a fruit-bowl feel!)

Incidentally, Clementine was a (very pretty) name before it was a fruit. It isn't as "fruity" as, say, Apple or Banana.

Beautiful names. I don’t think the initials OO and CC are a negative. No one uses middle names in the U.K. so it’s just a non-issue. I wouldn’t have made the fruit connection myself, but as so many others have I would swap Olive to a middle name. Clementine and Odette work well together.

Of course people use middle names in the UK! And initials generally

I think they are a lot. Clementine Catherine is a lot of syllables. Odette is a bit pretentious. The alliteration is a lot. Put them all together and it's a lot of a lot.

I love them both, and as a set. Beautiful.

I feel sorry for Olive.

Clementine is lovely but Olive is extremely bleurgh.