My Twin Fantasy

[cozyjeans.livejournal.com]

I’ve always had a secret fantasy about having boy/girl twins. It’s unlikely to happen, no family history and no fertility treatments here. But just because I feel like it, I came up with boy/girl twin names that I love. I hate the matchy matchy twin names, it just makes it seem like we’re trying to take away their individuality. They already have to share a birthday, why make it worse? Anyway, the names I love are Nicholas Anthony and Samantha Catherine. Our last name is one syllable and starts with S. WDYT? Who knows, maybe this round of TTC will work doubly well, and I’ll get my wish.

Comments

[desert-sailor.livejournal.com]

Love the names. :) My husband's name is Nicholas, so good name. Anthony used to be a name choice for us too. Lots of nn possibilities for the girls name too, so yay.

I've also kind of wanted twins just so I could be done in one shot and my kids could have a best friend their age, but then I think back to my daughter's baby days and I shudder at the thought of doing it with 2 of her. :P Good and bad to everything I guess.

[cozyjeans.livejournal.com]

Haha, I know. My daughter is just shy of 13 months old, still waking up 1-4 times a night, and I simply can not imagine doing it with two of her. I’d never sleep again! As for nickname possibilities, that’s something I regret about my daughter’s name. It’s Haylie, and you can’t do much with that. Her middle name is Elizabeth, and I kind of wish we’d made that her first name so she could have nn’s up the wazoo. The problem with that, though, is that I don’t like any of the nn’s for Elizabeth. LOL.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

They are not names that I would choose but I like them. :)

I sympathize on the twin fantasy. I have perfect names picked out for boy/girl and TWO sets of names for girl/girl twins, so if I ever do have twins it'll probably be two boys.

It also sucks because I'm reluctant to use my twin names on any singletons, and I really like them all as individual names. But if I used a name, and then the next pregnancy I had twins of the set I would have used the name for, I'd be so upset, lol.

I like matching in twins names, but I prefer it to be very subtle, usually match one's first to the other's middle. Like one girl/girl set is Stella Perpetua and Felicity Maris. Stella and Felicity, the first names, aren't matchy matchy in the least. But Stella Maris has a connection (it's a Marian title) and Perpetua and Felicity have a connection (the saints were martyred together).

People tend to either name their twins Jada and Jaden or else insist there must be no matching at all, but I think there can be a middle ground.

[cozyjeans.livejournal.com]

Yes, I hesitate to use my twin names for any singletons for the same reason. LOL, I thought I was the only one!

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I have Who's The Boss? on the brain and thought of a connection to each name, so I like them. ;-) (Nick was Sam's grandfather, Tony's real name was Anthony, Sam's real name was Samantha and Catherine was Angela's middle name, I'm an obsessed fan, leave me alone.)

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I've also thought it would be pretty awesome to have triplet boys named Finn, Sawyer and Thatcher ala Mark Twain.

[jexia]

I have boy/girl twins! They are Finley Etienne and Genevieve Madeleine.

Madeleine is for my MiL's mother. Etienne is the French version of Stephen, which was my FiL's name (he passed away when I was 29 weeks pregnant with the twins). We call them Finn and Vieve.


With Nicholas and Samantha, if you shortened the names, people wouldn't know if it was Nick and Sam - boy/boy, girl/girl, or boy/girl!

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

I love your twins names! :) i too have boy/girl twins and my daughter has the middle name Madeleine too :)

[sictransitsuzy.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous names :)

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Those are nice strong names. I love Samantha.

I hate matchy matchy twin names. I wouldn't name twins any differently than if I had 2 single children.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I would never use these, but I think it would be amusing to name twins Theodore and Dorothy. I don't like either name (except the nn Dot) separately.

[winterjameson.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love your twin names. They flow very well. Two thumbs up. :-D

I've thought about this, too, but I don't have a set (either for boy/girl, boy/boy, or girl/girl) specifically in mind. I just have a top 5 list of names for each gender, and would use the top one of each that was available. Unfortunately, that means if I have boy/girl twins the first time I get pregnant it'll look like I'm going for the matchy-matchy thing with Phineas James and Phoenix Cynthia. But if I had a single boy or girl first, that would all change and I'd be "clear" of the matchy-matchy thing. Oh, well, it's something I can live with if it happens.

Good luck to you!

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

I love Nicholas Anthony, but Samantha Catherine just isn't my style. They sound great together though. I'd never thought about twin names until I'd had my own b/g twins. They're called Lucy Madeleine and Bradley Jonathan. (We also have Elsa and Ashton, but they're not twins)

If we had more twins, they'd likely be Ivy Sophia and Fiona Bryony/ Ivy Sophia and Lucas Henry/ Lucas Henry and Theodore Peter nn Theo/Teddy

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

Nice normal names, but just not my style.