Name Your Twins - Which Path to Take
It turned out I was pregnant with a rather quiet little girl and a very bouncy little boy who was up to mischief even before he was born.
Now at least we knew what we were looking for.
We had a lot of conversations between the two of us and with their bigger sister, six years old at the time, how we wanted the names for our twins to be: alike, starting with the same letter, different, exotic...
There was the difficulty that me and my husband are from two different countries, and it hadn't been easy with our oldest daughter to find a name that we both liked and that worked well in both our languages.
And now we had to find names for our twins...
Here are some of the aspects we talked about during the process of choosing a name for our twins: We didn't want names that sounded very much alike.
The reasons for this decision were more or less practical, I just wanted it to be clear for whom I was shouting! Our older daughter liked the idea of naming the twins alike, but she didn't come up with any convincing combination of names.
There was another mother in our village pregnant with identical twin boys, they are named Alex and Adrian and I like this combination very much.
We opted for names that wouldn't get our kids in trouble later in life.
I have a strange first name (and a more"normal" one) and while I dind't actually suffer from it, it proved to be very unpractical, especially when I was working abroad.
So we wanted "normal" names.
It was important for us that the names we choose go well together.
We knew, that we would be using them a lot together.
In the beginning we called them "the babies" a lot, but when they grew up, instead of calling them "the twins" we now call them by their names in order to accentuate their different personalities.
So we were looking for two names that work in German and in Spanish (our nationalities), that would work together.
Not an easy task...
In the end we chose names that are not connected neither by meaning nor by sound, but that sound well in our ears when called together - and we are really happy with the outcome.
Now at least we knew what we were looking for.
We had a lot of conversations between the two of us and with their bigger sister, six years old at the time, how we wanted the names for our twins to be: alike, starting with the same letter, different, exotic...
There was the difficulty that me and my husband are from two different countries, and it hadn't been easy with our oldest daughter to find a name that we both liked and that worked well in both our languages.
And now we had to find names for our twins...
Here are some of the aspects we talked about during the process of choosing a name for our twins: We didn't want names that sounded very much alike.
The reasons for this decision were more or less practical, I just wanted it to be clear for whom I was shouting! Our older daughter liked the idea of naming the twins alike, but she didn't come up with any convincing combination of names.
There was another mother in our village pregnant with identical twin boys, they are named Alex and Adrian and I like this combination very much.
We opted for names that wouldn't get our kids in trouble later in life.
I have a strange first name (and a more"normal" one) and while I dind't actually suffer from it, it proved to be very unpractical, especially when I was working abroad.
So we wanted "normal" names.
It was important for us that the names we choose go well together.
We knew, that we would be using them a lot together.
In the beginning we called them "the babies" a lot, but when they grew up, instead of calling them "the twins" we now call them by their names in order to accentuate their different personalities.
So we were looking for two names that work in German and in Spanish (our nationalities), that would work together.
Not an easy task...
In the end we chose names that are not connected neither by meaning nor by sound, but that sound well in our ears when called together - and we are really happy with the outcome.
