In the world of celebrity baby names – from Suri to Harlow, Maddox to Apple – Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s decision to name their newborn twins Max and Emme came as somewhat of a disappointment.

“Max and Emme are cute but, as starbaby choices go, highly unoriginal,” Pamela Redmond Satran, the author of baby-naming guides Cool Names and The Baby Name Bible, told Usmagazine.com.

“Christina Aguilera just used Max, which hasn’t been truly cool since the eighties,” Satran explains. “And Emme is an amalgam of Emily and Emma, the top two names in the country, which means that she’ll be in the same position [Jennifer] was always in, being one of several kids her age with the same name.”

Last month Satran even wrote a blog on the Huffington Post warning Lopez and Anthony to “rethink” Max and Emme and make an “inspired choice.”

On the plus side, Satran gives Lopez and Anthony points for meeting the challenge of naming twins. “Max and Emme do sound cute together,” she told Us. “They are compatible but distinctive – the perfect qualities for twin names!”

Perhaps Max and Emme show Lopez is still “Jenny from the block.”

“It’s refreshing when celebrities choose the kind of regular names that the rest of us choose and don’t reach so hard to come up with a Romeo or a Moxie Crimefighter,” says Satran.

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