to think this is a bizarre thing to do when naming twins.

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NCed for this. I work in a school. we have twins coming.

TWIN1 is called: Roseanne
TWIN2 is called: Rosy

No lies.

why would you do that?

Brothers Ozzie and Ossie.

Pronounced the same.

DH and I have the same first name (mine with feminine spelling) and initial. So got confusing when we married! His dad has the same first name and middle name.Also, his sister shares my first name, same spelling, and we all now have the same surname!

I taught a Martin Martin one year :)

I know a Nathan and Nathaniel.

I know a man who has a son ashton. Split with his mum and got with someone new. They had a baby.. they called it ashton too.

Weird.

I know identical twins called Steven and Stephen.

100% true.

I know someone whose parents and wife and are called Lesley / Leslie!

DH has reminded me of his scummy Uncle. Scummy Uncle married Wife One and had a son, Daniel (not real name). Decided fatherhood wasn't for him and walked out on them, had nothing further to do with Daniel other than begrudgingly paid maintenance (you see why he's scummy Uncle?). Few years later he meets New Girlfriend. They have a son who he names Daniel. Few years later he decides fatherhood really isn't for him and does the exact same thing. Around five or six years ago he gets married again to Wife Two. They have a son. He fucking names him Daniel. So far he's stuck by Daniel Three but I wonder how it'll pan out if Daniel's One and Two try to make contact once they turn 18.

Another one who knows a Ronnie and Reggie! Just why?!

So assuming LYNNE was short for Lynda (as it is with every Lynne I have ever known,)

Lynne is NOT short for Lynda!

Lyn might be short for Lynda, but Lynne is a name in its own right. I absolutely hate my name, and this is one of the main reasons, having spent 50+ years telling people my name is Lynne then having them forever after calling me Lynda. It is not the same name, and I find it hard to accept that anyone called Lynda would shorten their name to a spelling just as long.

It was very common in the 1800s to give children variations of the same name. I have traced loads of ancestors who have an Eliza and an Elizabeth (usually Mother is also called one or the other), or a Mary and Maria, John and Jack. One lot had a Harry, a Henry, a Harriet and then another Harry. I assumed Harry 1 had died but no, just a big gap.

I said if pregnancy #1 turned out to be twins (boy/girl or boy/boy) they'd be Ronnie and Reggie 😳

In my defence I was a teenager with a bit of an obsession with the Kray's so it seemed like it would be "edgy" at the time. Thankfully there was only one in there because I'd have regretted it pretty swiftly!

@HazelBite My DT are Alexandre and Victoria!
Similarly, my DM is Anne-Elizabeth, her DM is Elizabeth-Anne (not middle names).
And

*This is true. I met twins (in very ahem, rural, part of the States) called...

Pete

and

Repete*

Similar, the Irish word for "other" is eile, pronounced Ella. I always feel a bit sorry for a younger twin called Ella!

I was not popular with the PIL because I deliberately gave my twins very different names that are equally different when shortened. Apparently that’s wrong because “you don’t them to think they are different”

I had a friend whose parents gave all 4 DC the father’s name as a middle name.

Another one here who knows Twins called Ronnie and reggie. Mad!

I went to school with a Val and Vel they were identical twins!

I went to school with a girl called Pauline.
Her twin big brothers were Paul and Ian.

You don’t want them to think they’re different, AdoraBell?!
I wonder if that’s actually the mindset of the loons who use the same or very similar names; that they actually see the kids as two halves of the same entity instead of two completely separate people?
How very odd.

if you go to the Isle of Lewis in the western isles there are a least 100 people called Donald Macdonald

George Forman (a boxer, also of the George Foreman Grill fame) had five boys and called them all George Edward Foreman "so they would have something in common".

Also one of his seven daughters is called Georgetta.

The strangest thing about that is why didn’t he go for Georgina instead of Georgetta. Even Georgette is better and more like Smurfette.

I know a married couple both called Ashley.

I saw a family named similar to this;
Dad - Patrick
Son 1 - Patrick
Daughter 1 Patricia
Son 2 - Patrice.

I was, not sure if it's a cultural thing, but didn't seem to think it was odd.

Also know half brothers with the same bloody name. Both called Adam Smith. Dad had child one and named him Adam, split with the mother and had another and fuck knows why called him Adam as well . Both Adams are a similar age and have the same surname?!

I know of a married couple Daniel and Danielle Both go by dan. How anyone has a clue who your talking about, I will never know!

Me too. Also not quite sure what's so hilarious about naming a twin Thomas. Unless you name the other one Also-a-thomas.

@multivac Thomas means 'twin'. (Possibly I left this info.out of my earlier post, sorry).

So they were called (eg) Steven and Twin.

I know twins called Savannah and Briannah.

They used to be referred to as "Svanneranneranna" by most children because their names were indistinguishable.