Hello Name Gurus

We are expecting Boy-Girl twins! And have just started to get serious on the name selection front. For girls we have narrowed the names down to either:

Eleanor
Penelope
Claire
Isobel

But have been having a lot of trouble with boys names. Can you please provide a few suggestions for traditional / old fashioned boys names that may go well with the above girls names. I have some ideas but nothing leaps out and I think I need to go back to the drawing board.

Our surname is short and ryhmes with 'day'.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers
Lou

Eleanor and Patrick
Penelope and Julian
Claire and Reuben
Isobel and Theodore

Congratulations, BTW!

I really love Eleanor and Claire from those. Isobel is lovely too although I prefer Isabelle, which is just gorgeous.

Suggestions:
Eleanor and Hamish
Eleanor and Vincent
Eleanor and Patrick
Eleanor and Harrison
Eleanor and Benjamin
Eleanor and Isaac
Eleanor and Henry
Eleanor and Marcus
Eleanor and Samuel
Eleanor and Darcy
Eleanor and Xavier
Eleanor and Finlay
Eleanor and Thomas
Eleanor and Tobias
Eleanor and Seamus
Eleanor and Sebastian
Eleanor and Nicholas
Eleanor and Nathaniel
Eleanor and Michael
Eleanor and Timothy

Penelope and Daniel
Penelope and Raphael
Penelope and Emmett
Penelope and Miles
Penelope and Joseph
Penelope and Alistair
Penelope and Andrew
Penelope and Theodore
Penelope and Jude
Penelope and Matthew
Penelope and Leonard
Penelope and Simon
Penelope and Christian
Penelope and Alexander
Penelope and Oscar
Penelope and Maximilian/Maxwell/Maximus/Maxim
Penelope and Callum
Penelope and Francis
Penelope and Lewis
Penelope and George

Claire and Lachlan
Claire and Declan
Claire and Mitchell
Claire and Patrick
Claire and Benjamin
Claire and Darcy
Claire and Hamish
Claire and Elliot
Claire and Liam
Claire and Theodore
Claire and Alexander
Claire and Damien
Claire and Julian/Julius
Claire and Thomas
Claire and Samuel
Claire and Timothy
Claire and Oliver
Claire and James
Claire and Lucas/Luke
Claire and Jacob
Claire and Vincent

Isobel/Isabelle and Thomas
Isobel/Isabelle and Lachlan
Isobel/Isabelle and Sebastian
Isobel/Isabelle and Alexander
Isobel/Isabelle and Xavier
Isobel/Isabelle and Quinn
Isobel/Isabelle and Dominic
Isobel/Isabelle and Nicholas
Isobel/Isabelle and Noah
Isobel/Isabelle and Connor
Isobel/Isabelle and Elliot
Isobel/Isabelle and Julian/Julius
Isobel/Isabelle and Alistair
Isobel/Isabelle and Christopher
Isobel/Isabelle and Elias
Isobel/Isabelle and Tobias
Isobel/Isabelle and Ryan
Isobel/Isabelle and Jacob
Isobel/Isabelle and Marcus
Isobel/Isabelle and Joshua

Love your four girls' names, and can't go past Gudrun's suggestions for boys. Penelope and Julian would be swoon city for me.

I love Eleanor! So what about Eleanor & Phineas?

William
Ross
Benjamin
Christopher
Christian
Adam
Rhys
James
Eric
Timothy
Jacob
Jack
Adrian
Mathew
Mitchell
Micah
Dominic
Damien

We have Isobel Claire on our next list, and i love the suggestions of Lachlan, Julian and Thomas

Eleanor and Jeremy
Penelope and Callum
Clare & Jonah
Isobel and Adam

Brilliant - Thank you so much for your suggestions, just what we were after, lots of names we hadn't considered.

We quite like:
Thomas
Samuel
Maxwell (I was surprised that DH went for this one first!)
Theodore
Henry

Also love Patrick, Hamish, Matthew, Oliver and Nicholas - but have gorgeous nephews with these names already.

I'm sure I'll be back again for more ideas!

Cheers
Lou

Love your girl's names, especially Penelope (my best friend's name) and Isobel (my grandmother, who died before I was born but greatly loved by my mum).

I am not very inventive with names like the PPs but my little one is James, and I think it sounds great with all of the girl's names you have chosen..

I'm no good with thinking up names...but perhaps you could look at it as naming 2 seperate babies, rather than trying to find names that 'match'.
Just choose two that you love & don't worry if they don't match at all. Back when I was working (childcare), I taught triplets called Elizabeth, Jaxon & Bel...I didn't think they 'matched' at all, but they all suited their names

Good luck, I'm sure the perfect name will reveal itself soon

Some suggestions for each: (FWIW I like Isobel (although I prefer Isabel) best!)

Eleanor and William
Eleanor and James
Eleanor and Dominic
Eleanor and Jack
Eleanor and Harrison

Penelope and Oliver
Penelope and Christian
Penelope and Matthew
Penelope and Aaron
Penelope and Jackson

Claire and Thomas
Claire and Patrick
Claire and Hamish
Claire and Emmett
Claire and Brandon

Isobel and Cooper
Isobel and Archer
Isobel and Xavier
Isobel and Julian
Isobel and Nicholas