How would you name multiples?
Would you do it alphabetically in the order they’re born? (Ex. [name_f]Ava[/name_f], [name_f]Ellie[/name_f], [name_f]Violet[/name_f])
Would you do it in the order it flows better? (Ex. [name_f]Ava[/name_f], [name_f]Violet[/name_f], [name_f]Ellie[/name_f])
If one was an honorary name, would you give that to the first born? (Ex. [name_f]Violet[/name_f], [name_f]Ava[/name_f], [name_f]Ellie[/name_f])
Another method?
*Names are just for clarification purposes.
It may depend on the children themselves! It’s possible that one might suit a name better than the other. Otherwise, I might just do the order of when we thought of the names or how they flow.
I used to dream of having twins when I was younger, but now the thought of naming multiples stresses me out a little bit because how do you know who is really who? I think I’d have to really look at each of them and figure out who they are first. 
I feel it depends ! I know stories of [name_u]Baby[/name_u] A and B getting named before they arrive and B coming first and becoming [name_u]Baby[/name_u] A! I think that’s quite confusing so if I ever have twins (which is a possibility as my grandma’s an identical one!) I’ll be sure to have pre planned names that won’t change no matter birth order! Though I like the idea of having the sets pre planned and than choosing who fits what better is sweeter and more symbolic 
Probably flow for me
This is what happened with my and my twin!
Im pretty sure my parents just gave us our names in the order it sounded best 
If I ever had multiples, I’d name baby A first, then baby B, etc. I feel like waiting until you meet them to name them might be a tad overwhelming. I think that they would grow into their names that you already picked for them.
I don’t think I’d use an honor as a first just so that no one feels left out. I’d use honors in the middle name spot.
I think naming them alphabetically would be super cute and s subtle connection. But I wouldn’t be able to use my favorite names.
Honestly, I don’t think that flow is important. They might not flow at first but the more you say it together the better they’ll sound.
I think I’d look at them once they were born and figure out which name seemed to fit which baby.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot since I’m pregnant with twins.
The second option, in the order it flows better, doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Whenever people talk about them they won’t always be referring to them in the same order, so that doesn’t seem to matter at all.
Naming them alphabetically is something I’ve considered, and I think this is what we’ll do. I understand the need for people to see the babies first and then name them, but for me I’ve never felt like a newborn baby looks like “an X”. For example, I’ve never really wondered if my youngest looked like a Barnabas when he was born. This is the name we chose and he grew into it.
So with our twins, the one that the obgyn now refers to as baby A and is most likely to be born first, will get the name that comes first alphabetically. My SO and I now refer to them by the names we’ve given them. If baby B is born first unexpectedly he’ll still keep the name we’ve been calling him now and the order will be reversed.
I’d probably just do it alphabetically. I don’t like the idea of only one multiple having an honour name so I wouldn’t do that. Flow just seems a bit pointless to me.
I don’t know that I’ve considered this too much. In terms of the order when listing off names, I probably would end up going by flow just because in conversation I’m likely to naturally gravitate toward whatever sounds nicest.
I don’t think I would name them in any particular order though. I would just give each the name I thought suited them, and then the order I list those names in in conversation wouldn’t necessarily reflect the order they were born in or anything like that. Not unless the order of birth was the topic I suppose.
If I had three names picked for all girl triplets I would wait until they were all born and then name each the name that seemed to suit them
We had [name_m]Arthur[/name_m] picked for one of our twins and I decided that [name_u]Baby[/name_u] A was [name_m]Arthur[/name_m] because it happens to start with “A”, and because [name_m]Arthur[/name_m] seemed like the name of a firstborn.
I would give the honor name to the firstborn if I was giving one, but I would more likely keep it to the middle.
Other than that, I would just go by how the names feel. I think it works out either way. We’ve often talked about if our kids’ names were switched and honestly, I think it would have been fine. (Though of course I think the names they ended up with are perfect for them)