Last month, Deon and Evonne Derrico of Las Vegas welcomed quintuplets.
Each of their four older children has a D-name, so they kept with tradition and gave the quints D-names as well:
- Deniko (boy)
- Dariz (boy)
- Deonee (girl)
- Daician (girl)
- Daiten (girl)
Other name patterns we’ve seen with quints so far are alphabetical names (Anna, Brody, Ciara, David, Ella) and first letters that spell a word (Gabrielle, Riley, Addison, Cooper, Emerson). We’ve also seen two sets of quints without name patterns: the Jones quints (Will, David, Marcie, Seth, Grace) and the Bieber quints (Kate, Samuel, Troy, Auden, Shiloh).
And now some fun questions for you: If you had to name a set of quintuplets, and all the names had to start with the same letter, which letter would you choose? Why? And, what names would you choose? (Let’s say there are 2 boys and 3 girls, just like the Derrico quints.)
Source: Births of quintuplets bless, humble Las Vegas family
Image: Ein Kinderfest (1868) by Ludwig Knaus
I would choose either A names or M names:
Alexander
Arthur
Amelia
Anneliese
Abigail
or
Matthew
Maxwell
Margaret
Madeleine
Mariah
But I wouldn’t actually do that to Quints. I grew up in a family of all “S” names. We all don’t like repeating initials at all.
I would go with P…Because P is for “panic” and that’s what I’d do if I found out I was having five babies at once!
Persephone
Petra
Paloma
Peregrine
Parson
I’d use A:
Azure (b)
Arkady (b)
Amalia (g)
Adelaide (g)
Alessa (g)
I agree with Sharalyn, wouldn’t do that, my father and I shared the same inital and that was bad enough, but I do like the letter N and after consulting the baby name book I’ve come up with.
Noah
Noel
Naomi
Noelle
Neroli
Ilse Theora. Iva Marin. Ioanna Lysanne. Ian Gjon. Innes Carlisle.
To go with my Maximus Alexander:
Malcolm Theodore
Marius Benedict
Magnolia Kate
Mabel Evangeline
Minerva Claire
I’m breaking the rules. Since my other kids are K, S, M & P… I’m going to fill in the missing initials.
Lena
Nesta
Oliver
Quinn
Raina
I could do lots of letters:
Mariah, Meredith, Miranda, Milo, Malcom
Julia, Jane, Joanne, Jed, Joel
Elsie, Enora, Elaine, Everett, Eli
But I probably wouldn’t. If I wanted to connect then names somehow, I’d try a more subtle way.
Like maybe the middle names would start with the same letter, instead of the first names:
Elise Hadley
Kelsey Hazel
Marie Harper
Samuel Hoban
Joshua Harris
Or maybe four-letter first names:
Lexi Channer
Hope Anessa
Aida Wynn
Drew Anson
Owen Shaw
I wouldn’t do that either because I personally do not like all the siblings to have the same first initial. But, for the sake of this post, I’d choose J, so I could use my favorite name, James.
James
Jane
Jonathan
Josette
Jillian
If I did have quintuplets (oh my goodness, just the thought!) I’d do something more like honor different members of my family or something like a connection via meaning, origin, etc.
I love L/El names. So,
Laura
Luisa
Lydia
Leo
Lloyd