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

[HugANetmum]

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?

" William and Liam which are very similar.*
in fact they are the same name. A bit like calling your sons John and Sean.

I've known of twin girls who were Elizabeth and Elisabeth, both with the same (but differently spelt) middle names.

@SavageBeauty73 "I met a Ronnie and Reggie at a twins playgroup. They looked cute but why????"

I have also seen twins called Ronnie and Reggie

My DS has a set of boy/girl twins in his class called Evan and Elle!
Not sure if the parents realise how much they sound like Heaven and Hell.

My sisters used to go to school with twin boys & their surname was Peake, my mum used to call them Twin Peakes

As a teacher you see it all. Harmony and Melody. Blessed and Truly. Prince and King. My personal favourite, Nirvana and Utopia. All sets of siblings.

I know twins who have rhyming names (wont say actual names as they're unusual but think eg Gina and Nina) she also dresses them exactly the same which i personally dont like for twins but each to their own

I have a brother and a sister and our names all begin with A; it's a running joke that my Dad never got any further than A in the baby name book!

I also once knew someone called Dwayne. His older brother was called Wayne

I remember seeing a birth announcement in the paper once...twins called Penny and Dollar!

Should you be sharing this on the internet if you work for a school?

I’ve know of identical twin girls called Myer and Nyer (yep, with those spellings).

Odd, but let’s hope the parent or family/friends of the parents aren’t on here. Could be considered pretty indiscreet for someone working at the school to pop that on mumsnet as there can’t be that many twins called that just starting school.

I know an Elizabeth - Isobel twin set: both lovely names, but essentially the same name

I also know a Steven, named after his dad...Stephen.... I have no idea why they deliberately chose different spelling when both are perfectly acceptable

George Foreman called all five of his sons "George" and one of his daughters "Georgette"

In Belgium (where Local Authorities can veto a name on registration if they think it will harm the child), a judge ruled parents couldn't call their newborn twins Stella and Artois. Stella was fine but they had to find a different name for Artois.

I went to school with 3 boy triplets, Edward, Ernie and Eric. Their parents were barking though and lived on a huge mansion complete with their own estate in the middle of nowhere and shot their own ducks for supper.

I had a head of dept called Eileen whose sister was Aileen. She stressed the A sound but it's the same name.

Seriously? Surely this is a journalist thread designed to find out “amusing” names! Someone working in a school would be very very foolish to be posting such identifiable details in such a mocking (or indeed any) context.

Twin Peakes
And now I want goldfish called Horace and Doris.

I’ve heard of a woman who had a dp John. They had a ds John.

(Which I think is creepy all these men naming their sons after themselves- it’s always the dads never the mums)

Then they broke up.

So she’s a single mum with a son John.

She then meets another man called John and they have a DS together who they name John.

So this woman lives with 3boys/men called John!

I used to babysit twins - Annabelle & Isabelle - now they're

21 and hate it and call themselves Annie and Izzy
The mother used to refer to them as "her belles" - pass the sick 🤒 bucket

I have a friend with a cat called Oscar. She then had a baby boy and named him Oscar.

I knew of twins once, Jacqueline and Jillian, known as Jac and Jill...

Oh and a couple, Ann and Dave who called their children Andrea and David.

Not quite the same but I knew someone called

Ivor Payne.

Why would you do that to your child???!!!!