The Ultimate List of Twin Girl Names (That Make the Perfect Pair)

If you’re expecting twin girls, naming them is going to be fun, but there’s more to think about when you have to decide on two names. Twin names need to go together well without being too similar that it adds to the confusion of telling them apart.

Think about twin name ideas as coordinating or complementing each other, rather than matching. Excess matching can sound cheesy or become confusing when no one can tell whose name is whose. Twin names work best when some parts of the names are the same, but some parts are clearly different.

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How to Come Up With Twin Names

It’s cute to have names that work well together for twin girls, but you don’t want to overdo it. It might be fun to have names that start with the same letter, but that means your twins will have the same first initial and birthday, which could look like duplicates on a school roster or other data system.

Rhyming names could have similar issues and end up frustrating your daughters. Sara and Kara or Stella and Bella might sound a little too much like the opposite twin’s name. A good alternative is to match the ending sound, while choosing different middle vowels, like Lucy and Emily or Pauline and Christine.

Ways to Coordinate Twin Names

Alliteration: Names beginning with the same sounds
Assonance: Names with the same vowel sounds
Rhyming names: Names with the same or similar ending sounds
Historical significance: Names of two people involved in the same historical event
Literary significance: Names of related characters or mythological figures

Do Twin Names Have to Match?

If you feel like it’s important for your twins to be viewed as separate individuals, you don’t have to give them coordinating names. There are no rules and you get to decide what you want to do. That being said, it is pretty much a fact that your girls’ names will be called out together pretty often in their lives, especially through childhood and most often by you and your partner. It might be a nice idea to choose two names that roll off the tongue. By all means, avoid matchy-matchy pairs if they’re not your thing, but say the names aloud together as you choose them, just to see how it sounds.