Congratulations on your upcoming blessed event!! Do those poor kids a favor and DON’T name them anything that rhymes. A co-worker of mine had boy/girl twins in August, and she and her husband went the “totally unrelated name” route: Charlie and Savannah. Good move.
As for my suggestions? I like “Matthew” and “Maggie”.
Hey thanks for the info; We have Irish Finn-afro twins! Learn something new everday.
Carolina (female) and Dakota (either). Well, I think it’s cool.
Amos and Andie
Laurel and Hardy (Harden, Holden?)
Payne and Suffering
Monica and William
Vern(on) and Shirley
Jack and Jill
Nah.
Go for something normal or they will be rolling they’re eyes at people by the time they’re two.
How about Al?
For both of them. Could be short for Alvin and Allison if you like, but just call them both Al.
Hey, I knew a girl named Elmer once. In fact, her whole family was named Elmer. 6 boys, 7 girls, all named after the father. Yeah, she was from Utah – how’d you guess?
How about Calvin and Susie?
Charlie and Lucy?
We are indeed excited, although trepidant.
I agree that they should be named as individuals and not go for any ‘cutesy’ names. My wife seems to be leaning towards names beginning with ‘M’ for some reason. Funny thing is, both their middle names will be her maiden name, which begins with ‘M’. I think that’s a little much, but we still have time to discuss it…
Heres a list of a few “B” names
For a girl:
Meridith
Marissa (personal favorite)
Melanie
Macy
Meagan
Madeleine
Margaret (Maggie for short)
For a boy:
Michael
Martin
Matthew
Mason (friend just named her son this)
When are the babies due?
How about Caoibhe (Quee-va) for the girl and Fionn for the boy?
Then again, calling one of them Klaatu would be so cool… 
Thing One and Thing Two
or…
Good and Evil.
I meant “M” names. What the hell was I thinking?? 
Janet and John
Bill and Ben
Morgaine and Mordred
Mork and Mindy
OK ignore the above then - I was being silly, sorry.
Marjorie and Martin
Melanie and Michael
Magrat and Mustafa (sillness creeping in again; Magrat is a name from the books of Terry Pratchett)
BTW, I wonder whether you will now have the same problem as relatives of mine who had twins, in that they received many silly suggestions intended as jokes, some of which stayed in the mind so horribly that they had to force themselves to think of the poor unwitting unborn children as things like " sage and onion" or “bread and cheese” just to keep some of the other suggestions from becoming real almost by default.
My very best wishes to you both anyway, and isn’t it going to be fun when they are older and ask how you chose their names?
Please don’t give them both the same initials. If the middle names are going to be identical, give them different first initials.
I share initials with my older sister. We both draw. We both sign our art with our initials. We have similar styles. We can’t tell which drawing from our childhood is whose. Annoying.
Also, it is handy to note things with just an initial, when you have more than one kid (or heck, even with only one). Also easy to establish ownership of matching objects (less room required for the mark).
I’ll give you my great-grandmother’s advice: Name them something that yells well. Her oldest was named Odelbert or Adelbert (can’t remember, and he goes by ‘Bert’), which does NOT yell well. If you can yell the whole name down the stairs without sounding like an idiot, laughing, or tripping over your toungue, you have a potential keeper.
And also my advice: 1) Run your final list past a grade-school teacher. They’ll be able to pick out the instant pick-on-me names. Okay, any name can get picked on, but some of the ones I thought would be okay were major easy targets! and 2) go check the ‘top 100 names of the last year’ lists and choose something that isn’t in the top 20. That way they don’t have to be one of the seven ‘Jonathan’s’ in their class, but the name won’t be so strange nobody knows how to pronounce it.
Names I like together (but also all very different kinds of names - you might want to do the last pick after you meet them!):
Alex and Amanda (if you change one of the middle names)
Nathan and Rebecca
Brendan and Alicia
I think either literary references or names that don’t rhyme or go together until you look at the nicknames would be good:
[ul]
[li]Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (from Hamlet)[/li][li]Thomas and Gerald (nicknames Tom and Jerry)[/li][li]Phillip and Lillian (from “Rugrats”)[/li][li]James and Timothy[/li][/ul]
I thought this thread was going to be about testicles…
Well, sticking with the “M” theme, for the girl, I’d go with Madison. Compliments of our mermaid friend, Daryl Hannah, in Splash. Now, for the boy, it’s already been stated, but Martin is cool. Seems all the intellectuals have that name (i.e. Martin, from The Simpsons, and Martin L. King).
We’re not (well, <b>I’m</b> not) necessarily looking for names beginning with ‘M’, but good suggestions none the less. My sister-in-law named her son Mason b. Oct 22/00. My wife gave her the suggestion, and she stuck with it.
I wasn’t going to tell anyone the names that we are currently favouring, so no-one in the breeding millions had better use these!
We are currently considering Matisse and Autumn for the girl. For the boy (which we are having some difficulty choosing), Oliver, Sven, Ahmed and Pablo. Recently I’ve also been mulling over Maple…nah, too syrupy.
Re: The Girl - Autumn isn’t bad. Matisse is bad. I associate the name Matisse with an old French artist. I know Matisse was the artist’s last name, but still.
Re: The Boy - I guess it’s no business of mine where you’re from, but the names you’ve got here are all over the map. The final three aren’t bad, but Oliver has got to go. He’ll forever have kids (once they’re old enough) coming up to him and saying “Please sir, can I have some more?” I also associate the name with Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch.
Simply my $0.02.
What’s your last name? You can’t think of good first names without factoring in the last name.
StG