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?

My twins have the same initial, I love it and they are very nice ‘MN approved’ names that I would have genuinely chosen had they not been twins. I think it’s nice! Me and my sister and all my cousins have the same initials too!

I had a neighbour with twin babies - John-Paul and Sean-Paul

I’ll never forget the look on Judge Judy’s face when she had twins Justin and Dustin in front of her. 😂

Maybe Rosy is short for Roseanne and you don't know the other twin's name? If you heard the mum say "Rosy" and then "Roseanne" for the same child?
I'm always alternating between full names and shortened versions of my children's names in conversation.

I think it takes more than a phone call to register children for school....

Dh grandfather had a sister called Mary. He then married a woman called Mary. They had a daughter (MIL) and named her Mary!!!

I knew a mum with twin boys - Wayne Alan and Alan Wayne.

Lots of twins in my dad's family, including him. He and his brother had sensible names, but they had twin boy cousins called Ronald and Donald.

Also in our family a pair of twins when a singleton was expected - only found twins very very late in pregnancy (pre scans). One of them is called Thomas, which means twin.

Names like Robert Roberts aren't uncommon where I am (Wales) - I know several Evan Evanses, and John Joneses.

I don’t think Harriet and Henry or Harry and Henry are a problem at all. They might mean the same but the names are completelt different

I know an Ian John. It's basically the same name twice. Just why.

Family twins (born more than 100 years ago) called James Andrew and Andrew James!

We were on a plane last year with identical.twin boys aged about 4 sitting behind us. They were called George and Harrison. Dh reckoned the parents were too young to know who George Harrison was and just liked the names. I thought that unlikely.....

I also know someone who has a daughter named Jodie and a daughter named Jo (not twins) which seems a bit odd to me.

Not twin names but family member who's a dr in Liverpool said a lot of baby girls (of parents who are fans of the blue Liverpool football team rather than the reds) in the are with the names Eva Toni Ann (surname) 😆.

And speaking of Liverpudlians, I don't understand the Rooney's baby naming logic. Kai, Klay, Kit & Cass?! Why would you name the 4th boy with the same sounding letter but spell it differently? Odd.

I know of twins called Ella and Isla

I can’t imagine there’s many people with twins of those names.
Surely it’s against your polices at work for you to be sharing this online?

Not a fan of matchy names!

I knew a pair of sisters called Yvette and Yvonne.

Also a family with three girls - Mia, Millie and Mindy. Finally had their long-awaited boy and called him... Kevin

I once watched a documentary on German television about emmigrants who had moved to Canada. Their twins were called Mary-Ann and Ann-Mary. Creative

So unprofessional of you to post this, OP.

Maybe they look so alike the parents don't realise there are two of them.

I heard of a family who gave their twins the same name. The EXACT same name.

So they face the prospect of being mistaken for one another in every conceivable way - same name, date of birth etc. Their lives will be very difficult from an administrative point of view.

Well my boys are Henry and Hamish.

I don't see what's wrong with Henry and Harriet. Henry and Harry, sure.

Taught twin boys called Marius and Darius years ago 😬

@Flightywoman surely that's an urban myth? I can't think it would be allowed at the registry office?!

George Foreman called all his sons George - I think there are 9.

My friend has a Jack and a Daniel.

Gosia, Zosia, Ela and Ola’s full names would be: Małgorzata, Zofia, Elżbieta and Aleksandra, so full names not remotely matchy.

I was at school with sisters called Carina and Tamina and another set called Tracey and Teresa.