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

Sorry but i see "Clemmie and Odie" and think clammy and odious.
Agree re PP against matchy matchy twin names

Love the names Odette, Olive and Catherine.
Not a fan of Clementine because they will inevitably be ‘Clemmie’ and it makes me think of phlegm and I just don’t like the sound.
However I agree with previous posters and would also switch the middle names round (Although I would actually use Odette as a first name as it’s beautiful!)

Clementine Catherine is a very long name to be putting on forms with limited space, especially if your surname is long.

But all of the names themselves are nice.

Love the names but imagine repeating Clementine & Olive a million times a day every day for the next 18 years.

I might feel a bit hard done by if I was Olive. It's a bit drab compared to Clementine. Olivia or Odette is prettier.

I can’t believe an Olive is a fruit! Mind blown.

I can’t seem to get on the Olive train, even though I know the younger ones don’t mind it. Clementine is nice but I can’t see her friends calling her that so she’ll end up being called Clem or Clemmie (I’d probably use the middle name and go by Kate). If I was Olive I’d say I was Olivia, but that’s me.

Go with what you are happy with.

Yes drab! I can never hear the name and feel cheerful around it. It has a sort of depressing vibe to it, like a dull rainy day, whereas Olivia doesn’t and seems like a bright, sunny day.

Clementine Catherine got the better hand.

I would swap the middle names so the aren’t alliteration.

Would you even consider a third child? Being restricted to fruit names could be tough- especially if dc3 is a boy. Off the top of my head I can only of herbs like Basil and Sage which aren’t really fruit.

I struggle with Olive as well. I know people like it though, so it won't raise eyebrows. If anything it will be a bit overdone and dating to this generation of babies.

It just isn't that pretty a sound imo, or that pretty a fruit and I can't think of any lovely Olives in history or literature (sorry Olive Oil ...!)

But people seem to like it. Like Marmite (which I do love, though probably not as a baby name!🙂)

Too matchy.

Maybe those who dislike Olive watched too much Popeye when they were kids. 😉

I personally think the alliteration is a bit much, but they're your kids. The first names alone aren't bad though Clementine is a bit of a mouthful.

I like olive but that's it! Hate the OO CC combo. Also wouldn't think of olive as a fruit.

Matchy fruit and alliteration = too try hard which is never classy. Just the first names or , even better, just the middle names as first names. They are really pretty.

Clemtine Catherine and Odette Olive for me.
Your babies, your choice though x

Olive is just awful, maybe ok for a dog but don’t lumber a child with it. Olivia if you must. Ophelia is nicer.

Clementine is pretty awful too, what about Clemency. Claire is better though, but you can’t have Catherine Claire without someone remembering Jackie magazine!

Personal taste - I find alliterative names horribly twee.

if I were the twin named Olive I’d feel like the ugly sister to glamorous Clementine

Poor child who is lumbered with Olive the bane of the ugly one from on the buses.

sorry but no. They are individuals and not collectible soft toys. Please don't "match" or "theme" them and sorry but no to the alliteration as well.

Everything sounds lovely except Clementine, which in itself sounds lovely, but shortened as Clem or Clemmy sounds like an STI

Oh that’s so sweet, if you go on to have a bigger family their sisters could be Peaches and Strawberry

Personally I don't find any of those names offensive, but I'm not a fan of the alliteration despite having alliterative first and middle names myself!.Clementine Catherine is a bit of a mouthful. Mine is 3 syllable, 1 syllable which doesnt feel as much. Agree also about Olive being a bit drab in comparison to Clementine. (The fact it's a fruit went over my head too.. they're not sweet!). I'd probably go with Clementine Olive and Catherine Odette (with 5 syllables) and you could shorten to Clemmie and Katie or Clem and Cat as they get older.

I love these names! Love the fruit and alliteration

Or if you didn't want them both to be CO surname, you could have Clementine Olive and Odette Catherine - Clemmy and Etty (not a fan of the nn Odie..wasn't he a frenemy of Garfield the cat?)