Should I mention my concern about this twin name pairing?

[Ellentelss]

Hey,

Looking for a little bit of advice, my DD is expecting twin girls, she has incidentally revealed their chosen names to me, and I’m a little worried that while individually the names are lovely, together they sound a bit “showgirl” or similar.
The names are Lola and Roxy. She lives in France but I can’t imagine the connotations are much better there. She didn’t tell me directly but she was on FaceTime showing me some things they’ve bought and there were a few personalised pieces with these names.

Should I mention it or just bite my tongue?

As a very new granny my advice is to never criticise and always support. If they want your opinion they'll ask for it.

I love Dolores (Lola) and Roxanne. Roxanne is French in origin. Dolores Spanish, I prefer full names on BC then NN, but they are your DD's and her DP to name. I agree that they are no longer showgirl names and outside of England. they wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Are they cockapoos?

They are fine.
They remind me of the musical, Grease and dancing.
Beautiful energetic and artistic names.

In my Facebook Border Terrier group there are at least 7 Lolas and 7 Roxys.

Lola is a common nickname for Lauren and is the name of a friend of mine, it's not 'showgirl' at all, she's a perfectly normal person and nobody questions her name. Nobody will question theirs either.

I've never heard that before. Why would you 'shorten' a 2-syllable name to a 2-syllable one?

Sally is a nickname for Sarah
Tommy is a nickname for Thomas
Johnny is a nickname for John.

Nicknames are not always shorter than the original name.

They're not nicknames.

They're diminutives...!

Maybe it's a dialect difference? Where I grew up, I only heard Tommy, Sammy etc referred to as "nicknames". I only learned the word "diminutive" as an adult.

@Zennia , It's not dialect, they have different meanings.
Children tend to have a smaller vocabulary.

A nickname is something like Thomas known as Spike, a diminutive is something like Tom or Tommy being used for Thomas.