{"id":6894,"date":"2009-11-12T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/11\/12\/baby-twin-girls-armstrong\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:41:00","slug":"baby-twin-girls-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/11\/12\/baby-twin-girls-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Twin Girls Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are Andy and Amy Armstrong and we are expecting twin girls on November 17th.<br \/>We have two children &#8211; my oldest from a prior marriage:<br \/>Chase Larkin 14 yr old son and together Larkin Murphy 4 yr daughter<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t want any name that begins with A<\/p>\n<p>My great-grandfather&#8217;s name was Larkin Timothy Murphy hence the family name I used as my children have different last names which I didn&#8217;t like &#8211; so they share my family name.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother was Violet Murphy and my father in law is Dan.  We have quite a list going and I am trying to narrow things down prior to birth and would like input that is positive vs the debate friends and family can start.<\/p>\n<p>My mothers maiden name was McBrayer but any form of that is better for a boy than girl I think?<\/p>\n<p>So the list in no particular order is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Violet<\/li>\n<li>Dani<\/li>\n<li>Murphy (I keep hearing this is a dog name which irritates me but I think middle name for this)<\/li>\n<li>Harper<\/li>\n<li>Carson (name we had in mind when Larkin was born but waited until we saw her to name her)<\/li>\n<li>Camryn (same as above)<\/li>\n<li>Lily<\/li>\n<li>Marley (again with the dog comments)<\/li>\n<li>Keely<\/li>\n<li>Kylie<\/li>\n<li>Zoe<\/li>\n<li>Lauren<\/li>\n<li>Rory<\/li>\n<li>Finley\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Irish theme is strong obviously but I am open to suggestions.  I don&#8217;t want the girls to have sing\/song names as they are individuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh fun!  Okay, I&#8217;m going to start making some pairs:<\/p>\n<p>Harper and Keely<br \/>Harper and Kylie<br \/>Camryn and Marley<br \/>Carsyn and Marley<br \/>Harper and Marley<br \/>Harper and Lily<br \/>Harper and Rory<br \/>Harper and Finley<br \/>Rory and Finley<br \/>Harper and Camryn<br \/>Kylie and Zoe<br \/>Keely and Zoe<br \/>Lily and Lauren<br \/>Lauren and Camryn<br \/>Keely and Marley<br \/>Zoe and Lauren<br \/>Camryn and Zoe<br \/>Rory and Zoe<br \/>Finley and Kylie<\/p>\n<p>Well!  That&#8217;s not very helpful, is it!  No wonder you&#8217;re having trouble narrowing it down!<\/p>\n<p>I changed the spelling of Carson to Carsyn to make it go with Marley, but I didn&#8217;t do much more of that in case you hate that spelling.  I think otherwise Carson makes it look like boy-girl twins, or makes it appear that there is an expectation that one girl will be tomboyish and the other girly, as in twin-based sitcoms.<\/p>\n<p>I think Harper goes with a LOT of the names on the list.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered if Lily\/Lauren and Lauren\/Camryn and Keely\/Marley and Finley\/Kylie would be too matchy for you because of similar sounds, but put them on the list anyway because to me they&#8217;re just the right amount of matchy to please people who like twin names to coordinate, without sounding like sugar-and-spice.<\/p>\n<p>I think Murphy and McBrayer would make an excellent pair of middle names.  Harper Murphy and Keely McBrayer.  Lily Murphy and Lauren McBrayer. Rory Murphy and Finley McBrayer.  And so on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reluctant to add any MORE names to the mix, since you have so many good ones already and since with twins there is a huge increase in number of combinations for each added name.  But for father-in-law namesakes, I wanted to add Dania, Daniella, and Danica.  Violet and Daniella is a nice pair, and Danica goes with a lot of the names on the list:  Danica and Camryn, Danica and Harper, Danica and Zoe, Danica and Marley, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone, please say your favorite combinations and let&#8217;s see if we can narrow it down a little.  I think my favorites are Rory and Finley, Harper and Keely, and Harper and Marley&#8212;but gosh, I don&#8217;t know, every time I look at the list I change my mind.<\/p>\n<p><span>Name update<\/span> 11-18-2009!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amy and Andy are proud to announce their two beautiful baby girls born Tuesday, November 17<\/p>\n<p>Brin Murphy Armstrong<br \/>born 12:07 pm<br \/>6 pounds 12 ounces<\/p>\n<p>Erin McBrayer Armstrong<br \/>born 12:08 pm<br \/>5 pounds 3 ounces<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is doing great!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy writes: We are Andy and Amy Armstrong and we are expecting twin girls on November 17th.We have two children &#8211; my oldest from a prior marriage:Chase Larkin 14 yr old son and together Larkin Murphy 4 yr daughter We don&#8217;t want any name that begins with A My great-grandfather&#8217;s name was Larkin Timothy Murphy [&hellip;]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}