I would name Baby A 'x' and Baby B 'y'. If A and B happened to switch, I'd keep new Baby A as 'x' and new Baby B as 'y'. Just easier that way I think, and the few people I know with multiples have done it like that. I named DD before I let her, so I'm not one for giving baby a chance to look like their name.
Twin A was Taite, Twin B was Seth.. Although the names were picked from 9 weeks, the 'order' was only decided when I knew I was going to theatre.. That was also because we didn't know what the sex was..
I had two girls names (first and middle names) and two boys names (first and middle names), but if I got two boys the middle names would be swapped around so if I had a boy first we would have to wait until the second one was born to know his middle name. However as we had our daughter first then her name was 100% certain and when the second twin was a boy we knew which middle name he was having straight away.
Names were picked with no real order. Staff brought me pictures of each of them and asked who was who (I was in high care and hadn't met them). I scribbled names on the back of pics while full of drugs so who knows what I would have picked had I chose when I met them. I had my kids introduced to me ITMS.
i found that my twins had distinctive personalities even before they were born. We had both a girl name and a boy name picked out for each twin
Twin A was my more boisterous and stronger/troublemaker so the names I picked were strong names
Twin B was more softer and more relaxed so we had more softer names for that twin
It took us ages to decide esp middle names and we finally decided the night before i went into spontaneous labour lol
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