[name]Just[/name] wondering if it’s just me but i’m seeing people needing to name twins EVERYWHERE on nameberry! maybe its because people like to come up with twin sets but are not actually expecting twins? i never expected so many twins needing to be named!
I think it’s quite high myself. But hey, maybe it’s twin year or something.
I was just thinking this myself today…
3% of all births in the US are twins. Somehow the rate is mysteriously higher on nameberry… This is in keeping with the big increase in assisted reproductive technology; the natural rate is 1/80 pregnancies. Triplets are even less common: 0.013% of all births.
Also, there is a very unnaturally high incidence of female births on nameberry. In all human populations slightly more make babies are born-- it’s 51/49 M:F. Nameberry is 100:108 (and that’s members reported kids, not a tally of the birth announcements. If you go back through the wonderful babyberry quarterly posts, the female section is always longer. I just went to the BA forum now and the first six posts are all announcing girls-- that’s a small enough data set to be a coincidence, but still.)
[name]Even[/name] though I am the mother of week old twins, I have noticed that more and more people seem to be ‘pregnant’ with twins. Very strange…
[name]Bree[/name]
I have noticed that as well. Maybe it is just people wishing to be pregnant with twins.
I noticed this too. It regularly seems to be twin girls as well, I don’t remember seeing anyone expecting twin boys recently. Weird.
Most likely trolls. It happens a lot on another site I go on; either people who claim to have a shed load of children already or ones who have repeat multiple pregnancies. You can always tell when something’s off.
I have noticed this too! I tend to think that some people are just pretenders, some you can tell easily, and if you take extra notice you can also tell there are a few people that have more than 1 account and they post using several accounts but you can see the resemblance is your observant.
It too amazes me the frequency of Boy/Girl twins, the chance of B/G twins is pretty low.
In regards to the number of girls i noticed this but it made me think that its possible that mothers are maybe a little more picky when it comes to their daughters name. Probably 99.5% of nameberries would be mothers so that could be the reason?
From personal experience my husband is more opinionated and picky with boy names. Though for me my boy/girl names are always at an equal number i do think that I’m more flexible and open to boys names where girls i will know instantly if i like or dislike.
Being female i think we will associate names with people we have known or met and having been a girl growing up we can see the trends in girl naming when it comes to popularity, name image and even things like associations to teasing based on a name.
Unless you have identical twins the chance of b/g is 1/3 as your only options are g/g, b/b or b/g. Not low at all : )
Though its fair to mention with the development of technology and science, procedures like IVF tend to produce a lot more twins.
Fraternal twins are 2/3 which includes BG BB GG
Identical are 1/3
So the chance of BG twins is 22.28%
BB is 38.86% (inclu identical and fraternal)
GG is 38.86% (" ")
I’ve noticed it, too! ><
The only other possible explanation I can think of is that people are more likely to seek help naming twins, because it’s probably more difficult to get the names to fit together without being too matchy.
Honestly, if people just like names and like the idea of naming twins, why not post a thread saying, “What names from my list do you thing would make a good B/G twinset” or “What would you call twins if you had some” or “Do you think Aveline and Mirella are good names for twins” instead of lying? No one worth your time is going to yell at you if you’re not here to name a baby. I, like other teenberries, am far too young to be pregnant or TTC and I still feel welcome here.
[name]Ah[/name], and can I just add there was once a time when I think there was a disproportionate amount of quadruplets. You can put “quads” into the search box and see for yourself. Judging by the amount of media coverage they can get, quads are probably rare at least.
I know my triplets were a result of IVF so maybe all of the twins are too… However, I think that maybe people might assume that they will get more replies and opinions on their favourite names if they say they are expecting twins.
I got told I was a troll on another naming site when I announced I was pregnant with triplets and it was extremely hurtful, after quite a few miscarriages to be told that I was a 12 year old liar made me feel sick! So I never say it out loud but you never know do you…
[name]Just[/name] to clarify - it’s not possible to have b/g identical twins, only fraternal can be one of each gender. 
I do think in general it is higher on here, but for me at least naming one child is daunting enough I can only imagine how I personally would need to talk about and get suggestions from like minded namers if I were expecting twins!
On FB there are two mamas I know expecting twins and one mama [name]IRL[/name]. I also know a family who is adopting twins. But even so, given the demographic of persons I know and the stages they are in life (I spend time with lots of parents of children of all ages) I would say the amount of twins I know is not on par with nameberries percentage. But as I said before, naming one child can be hard so that may be why twin moms are coming on here. Who knows.
As far as faking goes, I always expect there to be some on any given public board. I realize I have several children which may set off red flags, easily proven if there would come a time for me to do so by a long withstanding fb account. However, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and if they are off, just ignore them.
I also want to add that I am a long time member of another parenting board and there are 7 of us currently pregnant due within weeks of each other. 5 know they are having girls, one will find out in a few weeks and I am waiting until birth. So while this may seem off, I also remember on the same board a similar baby boom occured when I was pregnant with [name]Linus[/name] and it swayed towards boys. I have also seen this happen [name]IRL[/name] too…4 friends are pregnant from different places in mine or my husbands life and everyone has one gender.
I agree with jemama. I’m overwhelmed naming one baby, I can’t imagine naming two. There’s a lot of pressure with twin names, to make them sound good together and all that.
As for more girls than boys on nb, that’s not so hard to figure out. Boys are generally given more traditional names (often after family members) than girls. I also think most girls/women think more about girl names, there are so many to choose from.
I’d also been wondering how there were so many twin posts here. And the girl section is always so much busier, with more posts, etc. than the boy section. I’m glad someone asked because this thread has been interesting.