{"id":12144,"date":"2016-06-06T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:57:34","slug":"twin-baby-boys-blew-brothers-to-rinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/06\/06\/twin-baby-boys-blew-brothers-to-rinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Baby Boys Blew, Brothers to @ri@nn@"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found your website a few months ago and have devoured your archives \u2013 obsessed with this site and fabulous community! Really hoping y\u2019ll can help us – I find boy names incredibly hard & we need TWO for the twin boys we are expecting this August.<\/p>\n

My boyfriend J and I have a two year old daughter @ri@nn@ who we call Ari. We are using his last name for all of the kids – last name Blew but spelled and pronounced like the color. In naming our daughter I had a list of a gazillion and some names that he would 1 by 1 veto until we got to her name and he said \u2013 I like that, let\u2019s do that. He now refers to that as \u201cour process\u201d & we certainly have burned through a ton of vetoing this round.<\/p>\n

I absolutely adore the name Beau and we have agreed on that for one of the boys. I am hoping you and your readers might be able to give us some suggestions for the other nugget.<\/p>\n

Right now our leading contender is Miles \u2013 although neither of us is certain that Miles is \u201cthe\u201d name. I have some concerns about it (will kids associate it with the Disney show \u201cMiles from Tomorrowland\u201d & it\u2019s the boy equivalent of naming my kid Dora the Explorer? 2. Will he be called Miley? Which I don\u2019t love yet totally see myself nicknaming him unintentionally). To me Beau sounds very light, fun, precocious and I seem to lean towards other names that \u201cfeel\u201d that way and Miles sounds a bit \u201cheavier\u201d to me (if that makes sense at all!)<\/p>\n

Lately I am REALLY loving the name Shane and also Ames is starting to grow on me. Both vetoed.<\/p>\n

I also LOVE Levi but Levi w\/ our last name the blue jean connotation is a bit much \u2013 & J just generally doesn\u2019t like (he doesn\u2019t like name w biblical\/church associations \u2013 Deacon was another one that was vetoed).<\/p>\n

I really love the name Rhys (pronounced Reese) but feel hesitant to using it because Reese seems much more \u201cgirl\u201d to me. But, I wonder if it is still an option because when it is spelled this way it identified it as boy? I feel the same way about some of these names: Blake (love for a girl name \u2013 would use for a boy but we don\u2019t want two B names), Avery (also seems too close to Ari), Finn (plus J pointed out w\/ our last name this kid would likely be called Tuna), Peyton\/Payton (I feel like a hypocrite because I would totally give a boy\u2019s name to a girl which seems hypocritical\/not very cool of me but I digress\u2026)<\/p>\n

We both sort of liked the name Fenton for a hot second but J was concerned was that this would also result in a nick-name of Tuna. And we also seemed to have an issue pronouncing it.<\/p>\n

I also would have gone with Dillon but J hates. Other random names I liked that were vetoed for a wide variety of reasons: Austin, Graham, Dex\/Dexter, Damon, Reed, Russell, Bentley, Weston, Nolan, Jake, Hudson, Nash and many others<\/p>\n

The one name J offered and felt strongly about was Hunter. I think it\u2019s unlikely we\u2019ll go with Hunter as it turned out to be more common than he expected (he is a huge reader and associated it with the author Hunter S. Thompson). Also he feels like Beau & Hunter don\u2019t work \u2013 it\u2019s too much like \u201chey here are the boys they are going to head out and kill some deer\u201d. We considered Ryder\/Rider \u2013 another name I like a lot in theory but don\u2019t envision as our baby\u2019s name. With both Ryder and Hunter they sound more like words to me than actual names.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t like matchy matchy so assuming one baby is Beau we\u2019d prefer a non B name (altho apparently I seem to love B names for boys). Before we solidified Beau J suggested the name Bodhi (I think the meaning of the name is very cool but don\u2019t love the spelling of it \u2013 and also prefer Beau to Bo), Bowen, Bowden, Bowie (a bit crazy w our last name), Beckett, Becham (J struck down due to hunky soccer player). I love Brechin (J thinks a bit preppy). Also J has an incredibly unique name (I\u2019ve never known anyone with it) and while we are not looking for something as unique as his name he\u2019d not a fan of too traditional or overly common names.<\/p>\n

If one of the babies had been a girl her name would have likely been Quincy with the option of Quinn \u2013 like @ri@nn@ I like the flexibility of Ari\u2019s longer name and nickname (but contradict myself in James, Blake, Quinn, Sloane were all top contenders on my list \u2013 and I know very inconsistent with the longer lacey sounding Ari@nn@). Also really liked Noa and Collins.<\/p>\n

And this is not a priority \u2013 but I\u2019d be curious to hear peoples thoughts in naming twins \u2013 do you determine before they come out \u201cwho\u2019s who\u2019s?\u201d I.e. when they are in the womb Docs assign them Baby A and Baby B so I was thinking, oh Baby A could be Baby Ames and Baby B be Baby Beau to keep that going on. Or, do you have your two names and then look at them to figure out who\u2019s who? I\u2019m nervous about giving my boys the wrong names!<\/p>\n

I am all over the place J Love your thoughts!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I cringe at the idea of sending you all the way back to the drawing board, especially when the two of you are having so much trouble finding names, but Beau Blew is a tough one. It’s hard for me to say, it runs together into Boblew or re-divides into Bobe Lew, and I get it scrambled up with other combinations such as Little Boy Blue and Bob Loblaw<\/a> and Code Blue.<\/p>\n

Speaking of shooting down names, I think that J shooting down all your suggestions until you come up with one he likes\/chooses was a process that happened to work out well for your first child, but that it is not working this time around. A person who thinks a child named Fenton would be called Tuna is a person whose turn it is to come up with a list, and let you take a turn shooting them down.<\/p>\n

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I have several short-answer opinions, and I’m just going to stick them in a list:<\/p>\n

1. If you love B names for boys, and want to use two of them, I don’t think that seems too matchy-matchy. Many siblings have a shared first initial, because it’s common for parents to be drawn to particular sounds.<\/p>\n

2. I definitely think “boy” when I see the spelling Rhys. People hearing the name may still be uncertain if the child is a boy or a girl, but that’s the sort of thing that’s easy to clarify. It comes down to how bothered you think you’d be by occasional mistakes.<\/p>\n

3. I wouldn’t think to call a Miles “Miley,” but if it’s something you can easily see yourself doing, and if you would not like that to happen, and if you don’t think you could stop yourself from doing it, then probably the name Miles should be ruled out.<\/p>\n

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Let’s talk a bit about how to pick which name goes with which twin, because that is seizing my interest. Mine were easy because they were boy-girl twins, but I was still a little distressed to think that Baby B might be born first. It seemed wrong—and yet of course it happens all the time, and at this point (nearly 11 years later) I think it would just be a slightly interesting detail of their birth story.<\/p>\n

With twins of the same sex, I think what I’d do is decide which twin (either by A\/B status, or by actual birth order) would have which name ahead of time, but then leave it a little flexible in my mind just in case meeting the babies made me feel the names should be switched. To relieve name-choosing anxiety, I would think of it as if the boys were both singleton births: I would imagine Baby A being born now, and Baby B being born two years from now, and think about how little I would worry in that case that the names might have gotten swapped.<\/p>\n

I would try a few different exercises to help me figure out which name belonged to which baby. One would be to pretend they were being born one at a time in separate pregnancies, and see if I could figure out which name I’d use first in that case. A similar idea would be to say that the first name we decided on belonged to the first baby to be born, whether that was Baby A or Baby B. Another method would be to just pick which order sounded better to me: Dean and Reed, or Reed and Dean? Another would be to see which name “felt” older\/younger\/first\/second. Another would be to go with alphabetical order. Another would be to flip a coin. Another would be to see which order I was hoping would win the coin toss.<\/p>\n

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Now let’s go back to the names themselves. I see a lot of one-syllable names on your list, so I’m going to pull heavily (but not exclusively) from the Brisk & Breezy section of The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>. I’m going to include names that have been vetoed, in part because I think one of the pitfalls of having a suggester and a vetoer is that the vetoer can get into the habit of snap-vetoing without thinking about it carefully. Pairings with Beau:<\/p>\n

Beau and Beck
\nBeau and Casey
\nBeau and Chance
\nBeau and Clark
\nBeau and Colby
\nBeau and Dash
\nBeau and Dex
\nBeau and Eli
\nBeau and Flynn
\nBeau and Gage
\nBeau and Grady
\nBeau and Jace
\nBeau and Joss
\nBeau and Kai
\nBeau and Keane
\nBeau and Kip
\nBeau and Lee
\nBeau and Mack
\nBeau and Nash
\nBeau and Nolan
\nBeau and Rhett
\nBeau and Shea
\nBeau and Tate
\nBeau and Teague
\nBeau and Trey<\/p>\n

I like how any of the C names gives you A, B, C with all three kids—unless you plan on having more children and so this would put pressure on you to choose a D name next.<\/p>\n

For A\/B pairings:<\/p>\n

Abe and Beau
\nAce and Beau
\nAmes and Beau
\nAndre and Beau
\nArchie and Beau (one of my favorites, except feels like an archery reference—archer\/bow)
\nAsher and Beau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found your website a few months ago and have devoured your archives \u2013 obsessed with this site and fabulous community! Really hoping y\u2019ll can help us – I find boy names incredibly hard & we need TWO for the twin boys we are expecting this August. My boyfriend J and I have a two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-39S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12151,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions\/12151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}