Girl's Gone Child Twin Names

ETA: the twins have arrived.(See this post for musings on their chosen names, and keep reading below to see what we guessed and view names of a similar spirit.)

Sometime after our second was born, I discovered the world of Mommy blogs. Naturally, I stumbled across Girl's Gone Child and was so pleased to find some thoughtfully named children and the honest writing of Rebecca Woolf.  Woolf also writes for Huffington Post, Babble, and has written a book, Rockabye, From Wild to Child.

Some months later, I went back to discover that this family was expecting twins. I immediately began wondering about what they might be named, given that her first two kids are named Archer and Fable. and given I'm a name nerd.

I was lured back to the blog over and over when she enticed us with her throw-away name list, gave the babes the womb names, Rhythm and Blues, and continued dropping little hints as to what their names might be. 

Elisabeth at YCII opened up this discussion. It turns out that I'm not the only one to wonder and wonder about what other people are naming their children.

 Here were my guesses/wishes for this family (in the comments of Elisabeth's post):

Reve (rev)- French for ‘dream’.

Lullaby (Luby, Lulu, Lully)- If anyone can pull this off, it’s them!

Hallow (too close to Hal? or maybe a tribute?) 

Vigil (could see this paired with Reve.)

Fleet

Arrow (too much with Arher?)

Domino

Orchard (too close to Archer, but for someone…)

Maple

Vetiver (but for the ending.)

Yarrow (-o sound!)

Peace names:

Nitsa

Concordia (Coco, Dia, Cordi)

Zulema (Zuzu)

Poetry/music related:

Sappho

Meter

Wilde

Gita(song)

Ballad

From Myth:

Clotho (Clo) another -o ending! 

Anemone

Clytie

Calypso  

Cassiopeia 

I'd love to see these sets: 

Reve Condcordia Wilde and Vigil Verbena

Clotho Zulema and Thisbe Dove  

Yarrow Reve and Vesper Virginia  

Gita Pomeline and Maple Calliope 

Arrow Zephyrine and Reve Nitsa

Then Rebecca started giving us more clues;Here is a roundup of clues:

*The  names start with letters R and B

*Names have shorter nickname options

*Matching but not matchy-matchy 

 *the babes are forces of nature

*the names are "the essences of themselves"

*at least one has a 'peace' middle name.

My final(ish) guesses:

Reverie, Rhapsody, Rosalie, Romilda,  Rimona, Rapid, Rudelle, Rapture, Romance 

Ballad or the French Ballade, Bijou, Bernadette, Billow, Begonia, Beata, Beryl, Bedelia, Bael, Bravura, Bellamy  

For middle names, I'm putting my bets on:

Salome, 

Concordia, 

Zulema,  and 

Irene/Nitza 

 I definitely found some new names through pondering this, and dreamt up combos for her that I wouldn't mind using on my own future children, which is not all together surprising - something tells me one of her girls and one of mine are going to be sharing a name!  

We'll see shortly!  

And Rebecca Woolf, Happy remaning pregnancy, birthing and babymooning! I can't wait to hear these beautiful names! 

(all photos from Girl's Gone Child)