{"id":442069,"date":"2026-05-10T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442069\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:58:52","slug":"dad-furious-with-wife-when-he-finds-out-where-twins-perfect-names-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/442069\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad furious with wife when he finds out where twins ‘perfect’ names came from"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dad-to-be expecting twin girls was over the moon when he and his wife agreed on the “perfect” names for their babies – until he discovered the ‘cheesy’ inspiration behind them<\/p>\n

Jess Flaherty Senior News Reporter and Jessica Taylor Real Life Features Writer<\/p>\n

07:02, 10 May 2026<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/p>\n

The dad thought his twin daughters’ names were perfect – until he learned where his wife had first heard them (stock image)(Image: JGI\/Jamie Grill via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A man was “over the moon” when he learned his wife was pregnant with twin girls<\/a> – and even more so when they were able to easily agree on what to call them.<\/p>\n

Choosing a name for a newborn can be famously difficult<\/a>, with lots of prospective parents<\/a> struggling to settle on something they both agree on. While some opt to honour family members or beloved relatives with their choice, others prefer to go for something original in a bid to set their little one apart from the crowd<\/a>. One expectant father thought he’d swerved any potential baby name<\/a> headaches after being impressed with the options his wife suggested for their daughters – but when he discovered the meaning hidden behind them, it resulted in a “a huge fight”.<\/p>\n

Taking to Reddit<\/a>, the man – who was 25-years-old at the time of posting – explained he and his wife Kaylie, then 22, had “prepared nurseries” for their “beautiful girls and talked a lot about names and such.”<\/p>\n

He explained: “Kaylie suggested the names Bella and Sara, and even though they’re pretty common ones I do like them and it didn’t fall into the matching categories – or at least I thought that.”<\/p>\n

Things took a turn when his wife’s friend, Brittany, visited a few days later and asked about the twins. When he shared what they were going to be called, Brittany “burst out laughing”, leaving Kaylie looking “embarrassed.”<\/p>\n

When he asked what was going on, Brittany revealed the mum-to-be had drawn her inspiration for their baby girls’ names from a children’s trading card game centred on unicorns and magical horses that they used to play together when they were little.<\/p>\n

She explained the game was named Bella Sara. The expectant father was disappointed and unimpressed with Kaylie’s reasoning for the chosen names.<\/p>\n

He said: “After Brittany left, I was honestly left in shock and told my wife under no circumstances were we naming the girls that anymore because it\u2019s beyond cheesy and quite honestly ridiculous at this point.<\/p>\n

“Kaylie deflected me and said no one even knows about the game and that it\u2019s fine but I refused and it turned into a huge fight.”<\/p>\n

The father-to-be turned to fellow Reddit users for their views on the dispute, keen to find out whether he was being unreasonable.<\/p>\n

The vast majority sided with Kaylie, agreeing that the origin of the names was largely irrelevant given that virtually nobody would ever pick up on such an obscure reference.<\/p>\n

One person wrote: “Bella and Sara are perfectly normal names, no one would even guess that they’re from a card game.”<\/p>\n

Another echoed the sentiment, adding: “Unless you played the game, knew someone that did or had a child that did, it wouldn’t be an automatic connection.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dad-to-be expecting twin girls was over the moon when he and his wife agreed on the “perfect”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17565,93,61,60,1786,7191,105187],"class_list":["post-442069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-babies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-parenting","tag-reddit","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}