to give my twins rhyming names?

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Before I knew it was twins, DH and I were debating between our two current favourite names... names which happen to rhyme with one another.

WWBU to use them both anyway?

(Both names are unisex, as is very common in his culture... so the question applies regardless of sex. His culture has a broadly similar-ish range of attitudes to rhyming twins as in the UK... so they'd be equally likely to be teased there as here.)

Please dont, they will be subjected to ridicule

no, just no.

That would be ridiculous. These are actual humans who have to live with their names.

I'm a twin and would not like this

so they'd be equally likely to be teased there as here

So why would you do it?

It seems a little unimaginative. Surely there is another name out there that you like.

Sorry, OP, but I think it’s a bad idea, it’ll be prime material for teasing/bullying. Unless the rhyme is less obvious, like Jenny/Anthony. I really wouldn’t go down the Jenny/Benny route.

Like Chloe and Zoe, or Ronald and Donald? It could work, I guess, if both the names are nice!

I have twins and gave them names which both end in the same letter, but they don't rhyme and they don't have the same number of letters.

Yabu that would be horrible for them.they aren't cute kittens.

Oh god no. In the NICU we had twins with rhyming names of the same letter start as well. Even in that sensitive setting people were eye rolling and smirking. Totally wrong of them to do so but the point is twins with rhyming names always provoke jokey responses. Why? Because they sound like jokey names. Don’t do it.

YABU. Unless they're puppies, then it might work

No. Please don’t.

I wouldn't. It will get so confusing.

My sister and I have a 5 year gap, but similar-sounding names, Similar to Eleanor and Olivia. When parents used to call our names from a small distance we could never tell who they wanted.

Hayley and Kayleigh? Macy and Stacey? Mia and Sia?
No OP

I automatically thought of Tod and Rod from the Simpsons. Please don’t subject them to rhyming names.

I think it's fine, as long as it's like the examples so far on this thread where they're two completely different names, eg Gina and Lena, and not one being the same name with the beginning missed off eg Gemma and Emma.

As a twin trust me when I say its such a stupid idea.

Although I honestly just cant get over the fact you know its likely to cause problems and you are still considering it.

Please don't!

Please don’t 🙁

Please don't. You will be massively sleep deprived for the first few months and will struggle to remember who is who as it is. Of
They are identical I think it'd be an even worse idea.

My identical twin terrors just turned one and there is also real joy in seeing them understand and respond to their own name. I think they would struggle with that if their names were phonetically very similar and I am strongly of the view that they need to have a real sense of self being part of a pair from birth! I don't dress them the same either - I get asked about this a lot, my answer is always they have the same face and birthday why should they also have to have the same T-shirt! Same goes for names in my view....

No. Just no.

I went to school with twins who had rhyming names and fifteen years later I still think it’s unbelievably naff.

Please don’t do it.

When I was in SCBU with one of mine, there were twins who were Alfie and Archie which has stuck in my mind as being too similar - same initial , same ending etc.

Oh that would be horrendous
Why would you do that?