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?

I worked with a woman once called Love who had a twin Amore.

Agree with PP regarding hospital records. I once spent many hours picking apart merged medical files of twins with the exact same name except one had an i at the end (think Sam and Sami). Each had a fairly extensive but very different medical history (ex prem) and mum couldn't see how there was a problem!

I've taught a few sets of twins with matchy names e.g. the only difference is the final syllable so Joanne/Joanna or Ruby/Reuben. I've also taught families where every child has the same first initial and those with unusual combinations e.g Precious, Beauty and Jessica. Matchy names aren't really my thing but it's something I notice as I find names interesting and love hearing about the reasons behind the choices.

My half sister almost has my exact name - think Nora/Cora or Addison/Maddison type thing. 17 years later I am still furious.

I certainly do have twins and a daughter 2 and a half years older. I think I can without doubt know what it is like, 3 children under 3 years with no family remotely near and DH who works away at other people's whim. My comment about being lazy refers to not bothering to think about NOT dressing twins the same as they are individuals even though as mine do, look alike.

I bring mine up individually but they will choose to wear the same dress

Mine wouldn't own the same dress (one preferred leggings one preferred jeans or dresses)

So yes lazy to buy the same

Or, you let them choose their own clothes when shopping? I've always let my DC choose their own clothes. What if they wanted the exact same dress?

In DD’s year there’s a Mia and a Maia. It’s two-form entry, only one is in DDs class. I genuinely didn’t even click there were two of them for about a month.
Most twins I know have very different personalities and it’s a shame to be lumped in as one half of a whole from birth.

Complete opposite but i used to be a classroom assistant. One year we had two children who had same surname and very similar first names think Reuben and Ruby Smith. For some reason they both wore grey jumpers whereas rest of class wore red.

They always went to before and after school clubs so I never saw the parents.

I assumed they were twins. The teacher thought they were twins.

It was only when one gave out birthday invites and the other didn't we realised they weren't twins. Or related at all!

I have twins, I'm on numerous twin groups online. Having twins certainly brings out the crazy in some people's naming choices! Mine don't have matcha names

Romulus & Remus!😅

Sibling names aren't a set, but they have to go with each other to some extent?? The children are separate people but it would be weird to have a Sebastian, Hugh, Lancelot and then Jaden?

I knew twins called Andrew and Andre

@Fredkites
If I'm honest I'd think the 4th child had a different father.

Surely what people mean when they ask about sibling name sets is "what names will I like if these were my favourite children's names"

I confess if I ever had girl and boy twins they would have been Violet and Vincent

@GreenTulips I let mine choose their clothes. Actually dtd1 often chooses the same as her older sister. I just think people should chill out. If dc are clothed then all is good.

When I was a student teacher, there was a family in the school who all basically had the same name. There was Michael, Michelle, Michaela, and Mickey. None of the kids seemed to realise. It was in a very poor area and this was an especially poor family.

Sarah and Sarai
Also in a different school year: Sarah and Sara

Why?!

@LittleCandle

What does poverty have to do with names??

PurplePenguins I actually love that, wish I’d thought of it!

@Cindie943811A Shadrach, Mesach and Abendigo. Were three brothers who were thrown into a furnace on the order of King Nebuchadnezzar, in the book of Daniel.

I've also met twins called Ronnie and Reggie. As well as a child called Kray.

I knew a guy and his first name and middle name were the same name.
So like ‘Mikey Michael Murphy’ I was issuing him something official so that was his real name.

His parents actually gave him the same first and middle name?

@Purplepenguins
I went to school with a Jan Alice Newland who liked pointing out to us that her initials spelled out her first name. I think it might have been a happy accident because Alice was her grandmother’s name.

I knew a Samuel whose middle initials were AM, so he was Sam Surname and SAM Surname.