Paisley and Payton?

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Anonymous wrote:Come on OP, you know how pretentious and made up these names are.

Paisley is the name of a fabric, not of a child. And Payton is spelled Peyton. It is a name you'd find in the south when it's spelled correctly.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think OP asked your opinion on the first names, PP. She asked for suggestions on middle names.

Plus I don't know how a name can be both "pretentious" and "made up", given reactions by people like you to "made up" names. Whom do you think the OP is trying to impress with these names?

And "Paisley" is a real actual word.

And I wouldn't have recommended telling Walter Payton that he spelled his name wrong.

Not the PP, but of course it can. Pretentious means attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture than is actually possessed. Someone can try to achieve that by making up a name that they think sounds fancy or interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:At least make it Paisley and Plaid. Sheesh.

This. Paisley, Plaid, Polkadot, so many possibilities. Either Ann or Marie for middle name.

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Mother of twins here. I know you didn't ask, OP, but for the sake of your daughters I will say it anyway: these are too matchy for twins. They are not only alliterative (same first letter), but they also share the same main vowel. It's too much, and your daughters won't appreciate it. It will be cute when they are little girls, but once they are beyond the stage where you can dress them alike, they probably won't like it.

I also agree with the PPs who have said that these names sound made up. When I hear Paisley, I think of the fabric pattern (or I misread it as parsley), and when I hear Payton I think of Peyton Manning (although I'm not even into football) and think it's misspelled. There are so many names that are interesting, yet have some pedigree and are therefore going to stand the test of time. I would think again, you still have weeks to go...

Congratulations and good luck with your pregnancy!

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Anonymous wrote:Come on OP, you know how pretentious and made up these names are.

Paisley is the name of a fabric, not of a child. And Payton is spelled Peyton. It is a name you'd find in the south when it's spelled correctly.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think OP asked your opinion on the first names, PP. She asked for suggestions on middle names.

Plus I don't know how a name can be both "pretentious" and "made up", given reactions by people like you to "made up" names. Whom do you think the OP is trying to impress with these names?

And "Paisley" is a real actual word.

And I wouldn't have recommended telling Walter Payton that he spelled his name wrong.

So is lampshade. And I wouldn't name my kid that either (anyone remember Night on Earth?).

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Twins tend to struggle to establish their own, separate identities and not be perceived as a set. Don't give them names that make that harder by being matchy-matchy.

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OMG. I thought it was a joke. The names are so bad they're funny. Not sure what else you'd expect from someone who says "we are 30 weeks pregnant"..". Who is we? Sounds like a silly little girl.

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Hmmmm. Maybe I am nuts-- and I usually hate cutesy names-- but I like these. paisely is a pretty word and I like Peyton for a girl (see One Tree Hill).

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmmm. Maybe I am nuts-- and I usually hate cutesy names-- but I like these. paisely is a pretty word and I like Peyton for a girl (see One Tree Hill).

Agree that you are nuts. And it's paisley.

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Paisley Jane
Payton Ann

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Anonymous wrote:Paisley Ann/ Payton Marie

Paisley Claire/ Payton Leigh

Paisley Marie/ Payton Ann

Paisley Elizabeth/ Payton Claire

These sound nice to me.

Would you consider Paige instead of Paisley? Paisley makes me cringe!

I like Paisley, but not Payton.

Payton makes me think of "Peyton Place."

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Anonymous wrote:Twins tend to struggle to establish their own, separate identities and not be perceived as a set. Don't give them names that make that harder by being matchy-matchy.

+1

Pick one of these names and give the other one something with a really different sound. How about "Margeret?" She could be "Peggy" or "Maggie," for short.

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Paisley and Payton? Please don't do that to your precious babies. Those names are just awful

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Anonymous wrote:"We now call to the stage, two twins who will really get you hot!

Good grief. DCUM and its fixation with "stripper names".

So, it would have been funnier if I referred to them as paegent names? C'mon, you know this is a tragic pairing.

No, it would have been the same thing. "Stripper name", "trashy", "trailer park" -- I guess "pageant name" is a new variation, at least to me, but it's still the same fixation on socioeconomic class as an indicator of human worth.

And it's foolish. If there had been a DCUM 50-60 years ago, people would surely have told Celina Baez and Ann Dunham that nobody named Sonia or Barack would ever grow up to be a judge or a president.

Very well said. There are times when DCUM's unabashed disdain for the lower income set is down right hurtful to read. The rhetoric isn't far off of that used in generations past when talking about "other" classes of people

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Awful

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I don't really mind the names, though paisley reminds me of that brat on toddlers and tiaras.
I do like Payton and Paige, though I would spell it Peyton.

For middle names, I really like Marie and Leigh.