Surviving Twins

It’s hard enough coming up with a name that both you and your spouse agree upon, let alone trying to come up with 2! Let me just give one recommendation for naming your twins: Rhyming names are out! It will be confusing for your children, their teachers, friends, and even you! Your twins will forever be known as “the twins,” or something along those lines of one entity. So, let them at least have their own identity. Many people are still doing names that start with the same letter (which I think is cute for boy-girl twins). But you might also consider names depending on if they are identical or fraternal: i.e. Having identical twins might make it that much more important to name them very different names. Of course, it is your choice as a parent… but it’s a choice that your children will have to live with for the rest of their lives. So choose wisely. Here are a couple pretty good websites to check out:

http://www.pregnancy-info.net/twins.html This website offers suggestions for naming twins… using anagrams (like Amy and May) or even names that mean the same thing (Eve and Zoe, both meaning “life”). While some of the names are outdated, it might give you some suggestions to build your own.

http://multiples.about.com/od/name1/a/toptwinnames.htm This is a site with the most popular twin names for 2005.

Here is a list of twins that I personally know:

Girls

Kendall and Morgan (my girls), Angie and Kelly, Riley and Amelia, Tanya and Rachel, Margaret and Mildred, Haley and Maren, Robyn and Janelle, Hannah and Kelty, Dana and Jennifer, Erin and Whitney, Jodi and Heather, Nina and Stephanie

Boys

Brian and Jason, Vaughn and Val, Eric and Scott, Matt and Mike, Sam and Gabe, Seth and Ethan, Tanner and Josh

Boy/Girl

Trevyn and Madysen, Tyler and Brooke, Alex and Anna, Zac and Lexi (Alexis), Christopher and Caitlyn

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