I am picking up from Off Topic, in which parents provide their children's names and the parents' back story is provided:

Ella and Alexander


Dad descends from Hollywood royalty so it is appropriate that the son was given the regal name Alexander. The daughter's name of Ella recalls Ella Fitzgerald, a great friend of the groom's aunt who was also a leading singer of her generation.

Dad had his rouge moments as a TV and Hollywood star, and his arm was often decorated with the starlet du jour as he motorcycled his way through a series of women who wanted nothing more than to be his spouse.

Mom on the other hand was the last thing anyone expected Dad to marry. Of Lebanese heritage and based in London, she cut a model like figure as she swept through the Courts of Law defending everyone from asylum seekers to dictators of questionable morals.

Growing toward his dotage, his hair graying more by the day, Dad decided it was time to do some good for others and lent his star power to human rights.

There he met the glorious mom who bedazzled him. He always knew he wanted an attractive women, but one with brains -- who knew?

Perhaps his Irish grandmother chatting in heaven with the future spouse's Lebanese grandmother, decided to move two immovable objects toward each other. It worked, and they are now tut-tutting in heave over the twins, Ella and Alexander that their arranged union produced.

Too many "L" sounds with both names together.

Whatever

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend is irate about their name choices because she had twins two months ago and those are her twins names. And what cracks me up even more, she gave birth two weeks before Princess Kate and chose Charlotte as her first daughter's name.

She's legit ranting on Facebook and it has made my Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning so much more entertaining!

Love it!!

After living in Germany, we moved back in 2005 and I was in love with the name "Elsa". Turns out I had boys so never used it.

After the whole Frozen thing years later----I am so damn glad I didn't have a girl!!!

Ella and Alexander are very traditional. I have several friends with a kid with one of those names. I don't think her twins will suffer any lasting stigma. But--I really get her frustration--I'd be kooky like that too!

In German, it's "Ilse" not Elsa

Anonymous wrote:They are not your kids, why worry about their names.

+1

To every rude MIL ever.....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised they did not give them middle eastern names.

Where do you think Alexander was from?

Alexander is a Greek name, not Arabic or Middle Eastern.

But it is recognizable in Arabic as well as other Middle Eastern languages, sometimes as Iskander. My kids have one parent who is from the region and we chose Alexander for one kid's name for that reason. We wanted a name that would be portable and have significance across cultures. I don't know if Ella has an immediate parallel in Arabic, but it would be easy enough to pronounce and recognize in Arabic.

Anonymous wrote:My friend is irate about their name choices because she had twins two months ago and those are her twins names. And what cracks me up even more, she gave birth two weeks before Princess Kate and chose Charlotte as her first daughter's name.

She's legit ranting on Facebook and it has made my Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning so much more entertaining!

Love it!!

After living in Germany, we moved back in 2005 and I was in love with the name "Elsa". Turns out I had boys so never used it.

After the whole Frozen thing years later----I am so damn glad I didn't have a girl!!!

Ella and Alexander are very traditional. I have several friends with a kid with one of those names. I don't think her twins will suffer any lasting stigma. But--I really get her frustration--I'd be kooky like that too!

Love the name Ella, notso keen on Alexander

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Anonymous wrote:I saw a headline about this that read "Noted human rights attorney Amal Clooney gave birth to twins"

I love whoever wrote that!

Many sites are going with the ridiculous, try-hard headlines that make sure to mention Amal's career with only vague reference to George. If we all cared about the life happenings of attorneys, we'd be reading Above the Law instead of entertainment sites. Yes, Amal's career is more meaningful than George's. But her career isn't why you're interested in the happenings of her uterus.

Lovely names for their kids.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised they did not give them middle eastern names.

Where do you think Alexander was from?

Alexander is a Greek name, not Arabic or Middle Eastern.