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[arbus.livejournal.com]

the husband and i both have a very high probability of having twins... we both have an unnaturally hefty amount of twins in our families, one generation back, so we are kind of banking on it. personally, i hope it happens, but who knows?

anyway, we were talking the other day about having twins and have come up with some names...

girls:
josephine and genevieve
(josie and eve/evie)

girl/boy:
josephine and jasper
(josie and jazz)

boys:
noah gray and jasper john

havent decided on middles yet, but one of the girls middles will be colleen, after my late mother. also, boys middles are pretty much set. we love noah gray (gray is my mothers maiden name) and john after the my husbands father, despite the whole jasper johns reference, which he didnt even know, so we will just deal with it!

just curious what you guys think?

ETA: um i seem to have deleted the post for a minute. oops.

Comments

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

I like all the names on their own, but I'm not sure how I feel about them for twins. Naming twins is tricky, though, because everyone has their own preference... personally I don't like it when twins have matchy sounding names, so Josephine and Genevieve and Josephine and Jasper are not my style... but I do love Noah and Jasper for twin boys!

I was just thinking yesterday about how we would arrange our favorite names if we ever had twins (we have a high occurrence of people in our family getting pregnant with twins but losing one during the pregnancy... so it's a small possibility for us). Girl/Girl would be Zia Violet and Carys Audrey. Boy/Boy would be Jude Caleb and Oliver James. Girl/Boy would be Zia Violet and Jude Caleb.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of twins in my family. And maternal is all that matters. Identical twins are a complete anomaly, but fraternal twins result from two eggs being released, which is usually inherited. So your husband's twins won't have anything to do if you guys end up having twins. That aside, despite all the twins on my mom's side, I'm having my third and they're all singles, thank goodness!

Besides that, I agree with the first poster, I've never been a fan of matchy names (or clothes) for twins. I find it rather annoying and unfair to the twins, just because they were born at the same time doesn't mean they aren't individuals.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

thats right, i always forget that. my moms brothers are identical twins however, and my great (x2) had two sets of twins also.

anyway, i dont really see these names as matchy because i see it the same way, i dont see them as a "SET" or that its fair to them.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, your husbands family history has nothing to do with your probability of having twins, but yours sure does. Twins would be cool!

Josephine and Genevieve are lovely! But I dislike Josie and would much rather see Effie, Sophie, or even Jo. I do really like Evie, but I like Ginny better. I can get over the matching beginning sound since they're two different letters. The names go well together.

I don't like Josephine and Jasper together at all. They are totally different styles to me and both begin with J.

Noah Gray and Jasper John are great together.

[eeangel44.livejournal.com]

I think Josephine and Genevieve are too matchy/sound the same to be on twins. Not a fan of Noah.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

Stacey and Lacey isn't nearly as bad as Ronald and Donald...a pair of twins in my family *GAG*

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

Josephine and Genevieve sound matchy, as does Josephine and Jasper. Separately, I like the names Genevieve and Noah Gray.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I like all of them except Jasper John, the artist reference just seems *too* obvious, you know?

But I love Evie and Josie!

[nouvelle-vie.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, your husband having twins in his family doesn't make you any more likely to have twins. Twins are determined by the mother's eggs (either releasing more than one or an egg splitting)--the sperm have nothing to do with it.