Twin Baby Names: How to Choose?

on September 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM

I'm having such a tough time with baby names for my boy/girl twins. My hubs and I have a list that is getting smaller, but we're finding it hard to agree.

He has an uncommon name -- Hans. You can imagine how hard that was for a kid who was born in Louisiana and grew up mostly in Georgia. Not a lot of boys named Hans around.

I've got one of the most popular names of the 70s -- Michele. Yes, my parents did the whole one "L" instead of two thing, but the pronunciation is the same. I hated having the same name as dozens of others when I was in school.

So I want an uncommon name and Hans wants something, well, not so different.

So the hunt for the perfect names continue. I do love the name Nicole Richie gave her newborn son -- Sparrow. But Hans doesn't.

The CafeMom we're following, Kim, is also pregnant with twins and she already chose names for her two girls -- Shae and Sadie. She went with an alliteration style -- matching the first letters. Adorable!

My aunt, who had twins, went with rhyming names -- Tracy and Stacy -- for her girls.

Hans and I want the names to sound good together, but they don't have to rhyme or start with the same letter.

We can always go with Hansel and Gretel. We have friends who joke with us and call us that...a play on Hans' name. We won't be choosing those names though even though my friend Lindsay thinks Gretel is really cute.

Have any twin name ideas to share?

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About the author Michele Zipp

loves vintage and will defend skinny jeans to the death though she is highly superstitious and "death" is probably a bad word choice. She has a touch of the hoarding disease and enjoys sleuthing, the worst reality shows, and wearing high heels, even at the playground. She's an AP mom of twins, slightly crunchy but with a pedicure.

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Comments (21)

RanaAurora

on Sep 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM

Aliteration can be adorbale, but please stay far, far away from rhyming names.

(Note, I have friends who are Devin and Derek... and a female friend named Devon so it could work.)

I'm excited to hear what you choose, and your comment about how you with the normal name wanted uncommon, and vice versa with your hubby is what I've always suspected. I went by Chrissy as a child, and my husband is Kyle. We were one of many. Now we have Rowan and Aurora. Not totally out there names, but it's not Joe and Sarah, either.

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JessecaLynn

on Sep 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM

I love Rana's children's names. I wanted uncommon names for my kids and we we picked our daughter's name it was uncommon 10 years ago. LOL My husband wanted a boy named after him. So we ended up with Mark David and Jasmine Louise. They sound great together, although getting a little too common. Our youngest's name is also pretty common, Paige Elizabeth. The reason I bring her up was because we were 7 month pregnant and still didn't have a name for her. Finally I had to sit my dh down and beg him to help pick a name out. On a side note I really hate twins names that sound alike, rhyme or have the same letter. I just think it plays up on the twin thing way too much. I love the idea of 2 names that sound great together.

on Sep 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM

Thanks Jesseca! Jasmine and Paige were girl names I liked too.

emdrschk

on Sep 14, 2009 at 2:33 PM

I'm having boy/girl twins in December. Our first son, Axel, pretty much obligates us to giving the rest of our children individual names. We are going with:

Ryker Jameson

Larkin Henley

That's all I got! Good luck picking out names. I know it was quite hard for us.

QueenOfNagsHead

on Sep 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM

I hav 6 yr old twin girls, their names are Juliette & Jovi. My youngest's name is Jaynie & Im preggo again & if its a boy the name will be Jace Tristan & the girl will be Jacqueline Faith

JoyandLove

on Sep 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM

ava and avery

miriamz

on Sep 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM

Madison/Mason

Eva/Evan

Alexander/Alexis

Emma/Ethan

Brianna/Brandon or Braden

Reese/Riley

Nadia/Aidan same name reversed

Ophelia/Ezra both names mean help in Greek and Hebrew respectively

Happypancake

on Sep 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM

If we were going to have twins, we were going to name them Jaina and Jaeden.

Cafe MicheleZ

on Sep 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM

Ezra is a great name! My friend suggested that name too. Rowan, Ryker, Larkin, and Axel are also favorites. I wanted Axl for my boy, but hubs said no to that along with all of these. Grunt! I told him...can't he just think about it? :)