Question about naming twins

[Tigger&Belle]

I saw a mom at the pool today that has twin 4yo's (girls), the age of my son. They were obviously not identical and I started talking with her about how they decided on their names. IE, which name for which child. In her case she told me that her husband had decided on one of the names and they named the first one out that name and then, of course, the second name for the second baby.

I was wondering if most people did it this way or if they waited to see the babies to see which name "fit" the baby or how they decided. Obviously this only matters of they are both the same sex.

T&B

 

[Mermaid02]

My dh is an identical twin.... he is Christopher William and his brother is Gerald Timothy.... but I don't know how they decided who was going to be who- and maybe he is really Tim and Tim is really Chris... entering the Twilight Zone now....... (insert freaky music here...)

 

[huey duey & luey]

We had our names picked out before they were born. Andrew Zachary and Christian. Since we had an a and c name, they went to babies a and c, baby b became zachary. Well baby A (andrew) surprised us at delivery and was a girl she becam kathryn Andrea. Kathryn was our 1st choice for girls names followed by Emma and Olivia.
Tara

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Of course identical twins in theory would look the same at birth, so it would be hard to base it on how they look at birth. lol My babies (all single births) looked so much alike as babies if two had of been twins then I couldn't have based it on their looks.

H, d, and l, funny about your daughter throwing a kink into your baby name plans. I would think that it would be hard to tell the sex of triplets, sometimes the ultrasound doesn't show clearly in a singleton when they are modest or just not turned the right way.

T&B

 

[Disney Ella]

DH and I each picked a name. I thought we would decide which was which after they were both born. After the first one was born, he brought her over to me and introduced her with the name he picked! Not that it really mattered. It wasn't like one fit one name more than the other.

 

[snoopy]

I have 3 sets of identical twin brothers. My mother was always adamant that they have their own identity, so she named them different sounding names. In our family, the twins are Dominic and Matthew; William and Robert; and Timothy and Joseph. She wasn't having any rhyming sounding names or names that start with the same letter, which was a popular thing to do with twins back then (60's and 70's).

 

[KristaTX]

Originally posted by huey duey & luey
We had our names picked out before they were born. Andrew Zachary and Christian. Since we had an a and c name, they went to babies a and c, baby b became zachary. Well baby A (andrew) surprised us at delivery and was a girl she becam kathryn Andrea. Kathryn was our 1st choice for girls names followed by Emma and Olivia.
Tara

LOL - sorry, but this sounds like a puzzle . I think I get it now, but why wasn't baby B going to have a name that started with B? Baby A is Kathryn Andrea, but what did you finally name baby B and C?

 

[Tigger&Belle]

snoopy, Wow, three sets of identical twins. That's amazing! Besides you were there other children?

Disney Ella, that's funny! Of course some babies seem like they fit their names and others not. I had a cousin who was (well, still is, but I haven't seen her in many years) named Tina, and she was very skinny. That name fit. I wonder what she looks like now.

T&B

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Originally posted by KristaTX
LOL - sorry, but this sounds like a puzzle . I think I get it now, but why wasn't baby B going to have a name that started with B? Baby A is Kathryn Andrea, but what did you finally name baby B and C?

I think that she was saying that they had 3 boy names picked out and one happened to start with A and another one with C. That left the remaining name, Zachary, for the other baby. But then instead of 3 boys, the first baby was a girl, so they went with their #1 girl name instead the name for baby number 1. So then she must have a Zachary and a Christian.

Did I get it right?

T&B

 

[6_Time_Momma]

Originally posted by snoopy
I have 3 sets of identical twin brothers. My mother was always adamant that they have their own identity, so she named them different sounding names. In our family, the twins are Dominic and Matthew; William and Robert; and Timothy and Joseph. She wasn't having any rhyming sounding names or names that start with the same letter, which was a popular thing to do with twins back then (60's and 70's).

Are you serious?????!!!! Holy cow!!

 

[huey duey & luey]

Sorry to confuse everybody LOL. T&B you were right. 2 of The boys names we choose did just happen to with an a & c. Zachary was actually our first choice. We just liked calling them by names in utero instead of babies a b and c. So when Katie was born she was baby a (andrew, she originally would have been Kathryn Anne, but my DH changed her middle name to Andrea).
So Baby b was still Zachary and c Christian.
Snoopy all I can say is wow. Your mother is my hero.
Tara

 

[mtemm]

we decided on Andrew and Katharine (Katie) together. basically they were the only names we would agree on. dh tried to talk me into you name one, I'll name the other, but I just couldn't.

my dr. was telling me some people name their babies based on position. the baby closest to the cervix is baby A, the other is baby B. Some people will name baby A with an A name, baby B with a B name. coincidentally Andrew was baby A.

 

[zulaya]

For a few weeks, until I had an ultrasound, my DD (2nd pregnancy) was thought to be twins. So for a few weeks we were talking about twin names. I did a lot of the initial list making, but DH and I discussed it together.

Fraternal boy/girl twins were going to be Christian Thomas and Caitlin Elizabeth. Or Aidan Michael and Alannah Rose.

Boy twins were going to be Sean Christian and Christian Thomas.

Girl twins were going to be Caitlin Elizabeth and Alannah Rose.

When we saw DD, she became Caitlin Elizabeth.

 

[Deafmedic]

Wow! Those are neat posts! We have 4 daughters. All 4 have the middle initial "C". When the twins came, we each decided to name one since we couldn't agree on names. By pure coincidence did they come out rhyming together. From oldest to twins we have Victoria Caitlin(10), Anna Catherine(6) and (twins, 10 months) Abigail Chelsea & Gabrielle Christiana.

 

[janette]

We have lots of twins in the family, all girls and all fraternal.

My grandmother had 2 sets, they were named Moselle & Estelle (can't remember their first names but they used their middle first also ryhmed), Alta May & Alma Fay (they use May & Fay).

My mom had one set Annette May & Janette Fay, my oldest brother named us after girls in his class but my mom spelled Janette differently so it would match better.

Same oldest brother had a set of twins, he named one and his wife named one. They are named Lisa Gayle & Tennille Darline(?) , so much for tradition

 

[Twinkles6892]

Originally posted by Mermaid02
My dh is an identical twin.... he is Christopher William and his brother is Gerald Timothy.... but I don't know how they decided who was going to be who- and maybe he is really Tim and Tim is really Chris... entering the Twilight Zone now....... (insert freaky music here...)

Those names kinda came out of nowhere remember? They were supposed to be one girl. Stephanie.

If they really are switched, can we have "Timmy"? Cause he's nicer.

I'd name my twins (which I'll probably have someday, twin gene skips a generation) two totally different names. No cute rhymes or names that start with the same letter. Not my thing. No offence to anyone who did. Just not my style.....

 

[NMAmy]

DH is a twin (fraternal) and his parents didn't know that they were having twins. This was 50 some years ago. The name they had chosen was supposed to be Alexander Stephen. Well, when she had twins, DH was first and he was Alexander and his brother became Stephen. Neither has a middle name, they had to share.

They already had two older boys, I think his mom was just tired of picking out names!

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I have had students who are twins. Last year I had boy/girl twins, Ashley and Brad (A and B). I have also had Lisa and Leslie, and some with no similarity whatsoever (Brad and Greg). Right now we have two senior boys who are twins names Shawn and Paul.
Snoopy, I can't believe you have 3 sets of twin brothers. What your mom must have gone through! Wow. Is it just you with them? I can only imagine that if it was one girl and 6 boys you were a little spoiled!
Robin M.

 

[snoopy]

Originally posted by Tigger&Belle
snoopy, Wow, three sets of identical twins. That's amazing! Besides you were there other children?
T&B

Yup, my mom had children in this order:

Twin boys
One single boy
Me
Twin boys
Twin boys
One single girl

All in the span of 13 years.

 

[snoopy]

I also should add that we were like the neatest family in the neigborhood, we had 3 sets of twins and enough kids to makeup a baseball team, UNTIL the Malonowski's moved in down the street. THEY had 15 KIDS !! And 4 sets of twins, although their twins were fraternal.