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Trending Baby Names for Twins

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Jennifer Moss says old-fashioned girls’ names, nature names, and boys’ surnames are shaping current baby-name charts.

1. Twin Talks: Pregnancy and Parenting Multiple Children focuses on trending baby names for twins and the choices parents face when naming more than one baby at once. 2. Christine Stewart Fitzgerald hosts the show, and Jennifer Moss of BabyNames.com joins as the naming expert who has worked in baby naming for over 20 years. 3. The episode asks how parents can choose twin names that fit together without making the children sound like a matching set. 4. Christine says her own daughters are Alexandra and Julia, while producer Sunny names her identical twins Ainsley and Addison and explains that their middle names honor grandmothers. 5. Jennifer describes growing up with sisters named Kate, Sue, Jennifer, and Mallory, and says her family’s naming choices were influenced by Shari Lewis and celebrity naming ideas. 6. Jennifer explains that she became interested in names as a child, later built a baby-names database as a programmer, and put it online when the internet opened to public use. 7. She says a baby-naming survey found that most parents rated the process a 10 on a 1-to-10 difficulty scale, which shows how hard even singleton naming can be. 8. Jennifer says parents bring personal baggage to the naming process, including names from bullies, exes, coworkers, and bosses that they want to avoid. 9. Her guidance for twins is not to go “too matchy-matchy,” because twins already share the womb, birthday, clothes, school, and often a classroom. 10. She says broad themes work better than narrow pairings, and she gives examples such as Nova and Aurora for space names and Tennyson and Austin for writer names. 11. Jennifer warns against rhyming pairs like Hazel and Basil or Stacy and Lacey because people may laugh, roll their eyes, or treat the names as a joke. 12. She also warns against nearly identical names like Tracy and Trixie or Kimmy and Kathy because they can confuse both family members and strangers. 13. For boy-girl twins, she advises against gendered versions of the same name such as Devin and Devon or Brian and Brianna. 14. She says names like Lucy and Ricky, Bay and Jay, or Bonnie and Clyde should be saved for pets because they invite jokes. 15. In the trends section, Jennifer says girls’ names are leaning toward old-fashioned and feminine names that often end in A, plus nature names like Ivy, Willow, Violet, Marigold, Lily, and Iris. 16. She says boys’ names are trending toward surnames like Parker, Hunter, Bennett, Axan, and Lincoln, plus biblical names like Noah, James, Benjamin, Elijah, and Jacob. 17. Jennifer and Christine describe the show as conversational and practical, with Christine repeatedly comparing advice to her own family of four children and a dog. 18. The episode also mixes expert advice with pop-culture references, app promotions, and a final listener-style story segment about an ultrasound surprise. 19. Parents naming twins, triplets, or siblings who want practical naming advice would likely benefit from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a deep academic discussion of naming research may skip it.

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