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?

I lived in the Netherlands and saw identical twin boys aged about 5 in the supermarket with matching pastel cardigans tied nattily around their shoulders, square square glasses, and spiky, blonde hairdos in the supermarket. Their mother was shrieking their names - Kevin (pronounced “Keffeen” with a Dutch accent” and Kanye.

Poor, poor Kanye.

And I thought the rhyming twins at my school (Chantelle and Danielle) was an odd choice!

Outing myself as a teen mom fan but I still can’t get my head around Leah’s girls called Aleeah and Ali, Ali is actually Aliannah but NEVER gets called her full name.

I was going to say this they call Aleeah "Gracie" don't they, must have been confusing- especially with Leah and Aleeah as well as the twins names being so similar!

The slater sisters were

Lynne
Belinda
Kathleen
Maureen

Yes I know sisters Emma and Emily

You also notice in kids programs twins are often cutesy names for referee to as 'The X twins' quite rude to me

There’s identical twins in DD’s class that are called Daniel and Craig .

I know someone who has two DD’s born a year apart that have the exact same name bar one letter. Think Ellie and Kellie... worst thing is, the surname also sounds like the names! So it’s basically like Ellie and Kellie Keller.

It's not just twins that suffer. I saw some adorable triplets in town the other day stopped and chatted as you do asking their names. Mum proudly replies Star, Nova and Stella

I actually like that

Completing outing myself here!
I know someone with 5 girls:

Shanika
Shalika
Sharika
Shamika
Shatika

I kid you not!

I knew twins called Tim and Tom.

*I agree that this is an extreme example. But people do it to some extent with siblings who are not twins, too. How often do you see posts here 'stuck for a name for DC3. What names go with Aloysius and Hecate?'

Just give the child its own individual name. Hardly anyone but you will know or care whether it goes with its siblings' names.*

This always strikes me as parental vanity of the most extreme sort. Why would you pick a first name based on the very few short years that your children will be seen (at least by you) as a set? Is being able to tell people the cutesy matching names of your kids really more important than choosing a name that suits for life?

Oh just remembered another set... Charlie, Charlotte, Colette and Colin.

I've met twins and siblings called Ally and Allyana and Reuben and Reubie before.
It's not really bothered me but I did wonder how they dealt with shortening of the names.

I know of some twins named 'Dave' and 'David'

David would get very confused when his friends would shorten his name (as friends are wont to do) 'why are you calling me Dave? That's my brother!'

For those not understanding the James / Jacob link, etymologically they are the same name - see the first sentence here:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_(name)

Hence the Jacobites were supporters of King James.

I once knew a guy called Donald McDonald. Just why?

Button Jacobus is Latin form of James. Adjectives Jacobites for followers of King James, the Jacobean era.

I remember Kerry Katona had a kid called Lily-Sue which again is basically the same name twice as Susan means Lily.

I admit though that the meaning of names are important to me, could never call a kid Dolores or its diminutive Lola (meaning sorrows).

I hate matchy matchy names for twins or siblings. Rhyming names so bad, makes it seem like they are only half of a pair.
It's quite funny if it's a couple though e.g. Paul and Paula fall in love or I know a couple both called Dave.

I don’t really see anything that wrong with Jacob and James tbh. Not the same names at all.

Erm yes, they are

I know a Robert Roberts. His mum's favourite boys name was Robert, always had been, and she didn't see why having married a Mr Roberts meant she couldn't call her son Robert.

My parents neighbours are Paul, Pauline and their daughter Paula. Their son is called some thing else but my parents always call him Not-Paul.

Weirdest I saw was twin girls.

Princess Sarah (Sarah means princess, btw) and Princess Sophie.

Except Sarah and Sophie were middle names, so their official first names were both Princess.

I know someone with 5 girls:

Shanika
Shalika
Sharika
Shamika
Shatika

I went to school with a Shiraz and his siblings were Shahbaz, Shahana and Shabana. No joke.

I know a 7yo Nell who has a baby sister called Penelope which imo are too similar!

Tim and Tom isn’t so bad unless they are literally just Tim and Tom rather than Timothy and Thomas.

There’s a girl on Teen Mom 2 who is called Leah and had twins called Aliannah and Aleeah. So both could go by Ali, and Aleeah is really stuck because her other nickname choice would be Leah!

I've known

Alexander and Alexandra

And

Goodness and Goodnews

Ok, I stand corrected about James and Jacob - but even so, they aren’t the same name at all, they’ve got different spellings and sounds and everything - so who cares?