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Congratulations. How exciting for you.
I like the idea of maintaining the individuality of twins...especially girls. I've always thought there is something a bit weird and pathetic about treating twins as a sort of unit.
If I were you I would chose their names as you would any siblings, out of respect for their individuality. I would not dress them alike either, but that's just me.
I love the old fashioned names, like Nellie. Heather is a bit "precious", but not bad. I think we should bring back old lady and old man names, like Jemima, Cornelia, Louisa, Harry, Herbert, Walter. Like, Jemima, could be the new, Tiffany. LOL
I think twin names should be similarly weighted. Nellie and Heather aren't. Alison and Heather are a better fit. If you like Nellie, you could use it as a nickname. I looked it up, it comes from Nell which came from Helen, Ellen, and Eleanor. I like the suggestion of Helena.
To me, Zoe and Zara are too cutesie for a twin pair. I think the names are better suited for a singelton.
Alison and Heather are a better fit than Nellie and Heather, but they both are straight out of the 80s.
We chose names for our multiples that would be of similar time period and "perception." Nellie sounds like a 19th-century grandma name, while Heather has a more modern and sexy connotation.
They group names in different, creative ways and offer alternatives to common names so your kid won't be the 7th Olivia in the classroom.
FWIW, I don't like matching names for multiples. I don't even think they have to start with the same letter. They already are going to be a walking circus act, because even though twins are more common these days they STILL attract a LOT of attention. No need to make it worse with cutesy names.
I also advise you to practice yelling the names out loud about 6 times in a row to see what your life will be like for the next dozen years.
I like complementary names too. All my children's names are traditional and begin with vowels. To me, Nellie is a name for a little girl or an old granny, not an adult woman who might want an important profession someday. A good friend of mine is named Molly and worries about people taking her seriously as an attorney. She goes by her middle name professionally. Nellie is a diminutive of Helen, so what about Helena and Heather? Heather is tricky too, though, like Kimberly, Megan, Carly, etc. I quit going by Julie years ago.
See, I think Nellie is relatively flexible, because if you don't always want the diminutive, you can use Nell. I named my kid Samuel in part because it's a name you can grow up with, if you choose, at various points in life, to go by Sammy, Sam, or Samuel. It's also fairly timeless, neither overly old-fashioned, nor flash-in-the-pan trendy.
But, FWIW, when I worked as a legal assistant, I had attorneys on my team named Katie and Staci, and neither seemed to suffer from credibility problems.
See, I think Nellie is relatively flexible, because if you don't always want the diminutive, you can use Nell. I named my kid Samuel in part because it's a name you can grow up with, if you choose, at various points in life, to go by Sammy, Sam, or Samuel. It's also fairly timeless, neither overly old-fashioned, nor flash-in-the-pan trendy.
But, FWIW, when I worked as a legal assistant, I had attorneys on my team named Katie and Staci, and neither seemed to suffer from credibility problems.
Molly is self-employed so she worried about her "phone book appeal." I work for a major corporation, and our attorneys are Kelly and Julie.
See, I think Nellie is relatively flexible, because if you don't always want the diminutive, you can use Nell. I named my kid Samuel in part because it's a name you can grow up with, if you choose, at various points in life, to go by Sammy, Sam, or Samuel. It's also fairly timeless, neither overly old-fashioned, nor flash-in-the-pan trendy.
But, FWIW, when I worked as a legal assistant, I had attorneys on my team named Katie and Staci, and neither seemed to suffer from credibility problems.
Just to get off track a bit. I have a lot of favorite male names that I think of as soft and strong. One of them is Samuel, Matthew, David, Gabriel, etc. Funny how certain names connote certain feelings and traits.
I think twin names should be similarly weighted. Nellie and Heather aren't. Alison and Heather are a better fit. If you like Nellie, you could use it as a nickname. I looked it up, it comes from Nell which came from Helen, Ellen, and Eleanor. I like the suggestion of Helena.
To me, Zoe and Zara are too cutesie for a twin pair. I think the names are better suited for a singelton.
I agree with this. ^^^ They don't have to be a pair of names, but I think they should come from the same genre (for lack of a better word) of names. To me, something like Elizabeth and Caroline go together because they're traditional. Nicole and Heather would go together because they're from roughly the same era.
I think as long as you stay away from rhyming names or names that are too cute for their own good you can't go wrong.
I agree with picking two names that have the same "weight" or "genre" or "feel" to them. So you aren't type casting them.
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