I was thinking this about with my SIL having twins. If you were having or have twins assuming they’re both boys or girls and you have found the names you want to use for them before they’re born. How do/did you decide which twin gets which name? Would you wait to see which one fits the name or maybe whichever was born first gets your most favourite out the two names or something else? What are your thoughts?
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(A teenager who doesn’t plan to ever get pregnant is totally the person you were looking for, feel free to disregard my response haha)
I’d designate which twin gets which name based on birth order beforehand, but if it really feels like it ought to be switched, then I would. For instance, with my twinset [name_f]Olive[/name_f] [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] and [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_f]Amalia[/name_f], then the firstborn would be [name_m]Ollie[/name_m] and the secondborn would be [name_f]Maggie[/name_f], but if that didn’t feel right, I might switch them. I’d feel a little weird about doing that though!
We have twin boys.
We’d already picked one name, or at least the first name, before we even knew we were having twins. We decided that this would be baby A’s name, the one that would most likely be born first. To be honest we didn’t even discuss it that much, it just made sense to both my husband and me to do it this way.
Neither of us believes that a newborn baby can look like a certain name, they just grow into their name and make it their own as they develop their personality. Referring to them by name made it easier to bond with them though. We only named baby B after they were born (they were born prematurely), and I felt like I’d bonded with baby A more during the pregnancy just because he already had a name.
Even if we had decided both names before birth I’d never switch them after, because they already had different personalities in the womb (baby B was much more active, baby A was more relaxed… they’re now 4 and it’s still the same 
). I could never switch them because their name already belonged to them.
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[name_f]My[/name_f] parents had the names alphabetically and named my twin and i in that order, as they both liked both of the names sets they had.
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I have twin boys. We decided their names before birth. Basically, my husband picked his favorite name for one and I picked my favorite for the other (though we both loved both names).
I went by the “energy” I got from each of them before they were born (rather than what they looked like at birth) to decide who got which name.
Twin A’s name (my husband’s pick) does happen to start with an A. That just seemed to make sense to me that it worked out that way. It seemed like a firstborn’s name.
They look so different from each other that you might not automatically assume they are brothers!
I think their names fit them perfectly and I love both names even more now than I did when we named them.
Still, if they were given the opposite name I think it would have worked out just fine too.