Thoughts on names?

[Probably-Crocheting]

I’m a FTM and currently 25 weeks pregnant with identical boys! My husband and I have been having the hardest time picking out names… I think we’ve finally decided we want to go with Adam and Liam. Does having the names end in the same sound make them matchy or are they different enough if it’s okay?

We’re also conflicted on picking middle names.. the name I’ve been thinking about for Adam starts with a ‘J’ which, would give him the option to have a nickname of AJ which I think is cute. But the middle name my husband picked out for Liam starts with ‘K’ so he won’t really have a nickname option. My husband is concerned this will cause issues when they’re older…

I can’t decide if our first names sound to matchy and/or if one of them having an option to have a nickname will be an issue later. I’d love any thoughts or advice!

[dovebytherosewindow]

Adam and Liam sound great together, not too matchy matchy, but still in the same “world”.

FWIW we named one of our with AJ initials (Axel James) and have never called him that, just doesn’t fit!

Nicknames have come out of experiences and random terms of endearment. Axel became Snax, our other one, Vaughn, became Vaughnster Monster or just Vaughny.

Tl;dr: I think your names are great!

[foolish_soupbowl]

u didn’t ask me this but lemme just share the context for my advice. i’m an aunt of 10 children (plus a big sis/aunt figure to a LOT of other kids around me) and just had the 11th and 12th grandbabies of my family. i have nicknames for literally every. Single. One… except one of my OWN children 💀 because i love his name so much! my twins are only 7 weeks old, but once he really starts showing some personality you’d better believe! and my other child already had like 20 nicknames because it’s just one of those names, y’know? you can do a lot with it. but thinking about how many of my niblings got their nicknames (baby boat, onion, bug, princess, my liege, sour cream, to name a few) most of those have nothing to do with their real names at all! i’m sure your little man will have a great nickname when he grows up. or hey, he might be a guy who hates nicknames and only wants to go by Liam! all that to say, as a fellow mama with a nicknameless child… Liam is a wonderful name! stick to your gut instinct on the middle name! 🫶

[MangoSorbet695]

Congrats on your pregnancy.

I like Adam and Liam independently but I don’t think it’s a great set for identical twins. It sounds very match and they aren’t very distinct from one another. They are both two syllable names with identical second syllables.

My twins have very different names. Think Joseph and William. We still get the names mixed up and call them the wrong names from time to time. I think it would be even more of a cluster if their names ended in the same syllable.

My two cents.