Baby Name Poll Results

WAY too matchy-matchy! How about Valentino nn Val and Valerie?

Valentina and Hart at a push

Cor, there’s only one letter in it...

No they are way too close! They are the same name only a boy and girl version!

Do you have an Italian connection?

I like Valentina for a girl.
Maybe Valentina and....

Alessio
Alberto
Alessandro
Beppe
Benito
Claudio
Marco
Romeo
Vita
Valerio
Zenzo

Like any???

Way too matchy. You really should check out some books on twins and why its not a good idea to name them matchy names.

Poster 2 and Poster 3 I don’t know what you mean? poster 4 I do have a Italian connection and I like Romeo but the rest not so much

poster 5 you need shut up

Awful. They are individuals!

Cute, but WAY too matchy, and kind of tacky. I think you should keep one of the names and get rid of the other. I’d keep Valentino. Perhaps Valentino and:

Manuela
Norina
Isidora
Rosalinda
Palmira
Lidia
Carmela
Luigia
Felìcita

Any tickle your fancy?

Hey, Poster 7, Poster 5 didn’t say anything rude. There’s no reason to tell her to shut up.

From Joan A. Friedman and her book Emotionally Healthy Twins. The key to raising kids who fit the title is to treat them as unique individuals from as early on as possible. This applies to how you conceptualize and talk about them in utero. It also applies to the names you give them at birth, the ships on which they will sail through the journey of childhood. Opting for names that are sufficiently different is a metaphor of their separate trajectories. The author, a twin herself, recommends avoiding a common first letter or any pair that sounds too matchy. The fact that her identical twin is called Jane was a source of consternation for her as a child, not of fun. “I longed for a name that was different enough from my sister’s,” she writes, “so that people would know me for who I was.”