to give my twins rhyming names?

[LapsedVeganAcademic]

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.)

roger and dodger?

This reminds me of the mexican fireman joke

I think you should. I know twins with rhyming names. Nothing wrong with it

I know a Silvano and his non twin sister, Silvano. Both in their seventies.
I always wondered if their parents had a total lack of imagination or whether there was a family tradition.
Either way, I think that a name is the most meaningful gift you can give a child. Please don't turn them into sources of ridicule. Why you are even considering it is beyond me.

Use your noggin. And a baby names book.

Kev and Bev.......lovely!

Good lord no, why would you do that.

I would say no.

It’s hard enough to maintain your own individuality when people see you as half of a whole as it is. At least give each baby their own different name.

If you want everyone to laugh at them and you then crack on.

Please don’t OP. It is utterly cringeworthy.

I have twins. They are two people in their own right, not a matching set.

People will judge. When mine were in NICU there were twins in with them called Destiny and Darnell! I could see the nurses trying not to smirk sometimes when they said their names.

Twins Trust has some excellent advice on naming twins. twinstrust.org/let-us-help/pregnancy-and-birth/preparing-for-birth/names.html

@ZorbaTheHoarder

Would you consider going for Balonz and Tralonz?

Sufficiently different and yet retaining the original sound?

Ha!

Seriously, though, please don't do it, @LapsedVeganAcademic.

< flashback to childhood book characters Boris and Norris >

no
no to names that start with the same letter too - give them some chance of individuality

My name rhymes with my aunt and uncles name (unisex name, both from different sides of the family). Was always a nightmare when we would be together and you'd hear someone shout a name and all 3 of us would respond. Or two of us would and we weren't the ones wanted.

So I'd say don't do it, but it really depends how rhyming I suppose. Merry and Cherry too similar but slightly rhyming like Peony and Anthony may not be so bad. not recommending those names, just the first I can think of

Twins in my DDs class at moment. Don’t want to out them as such but think Kayla & Mikala. Don’t do it!

are they Czechoslovak odd job men? If so, fine.

Humpty and Dumpty would be good.

But really, no, it would be confusing if they are both unisex names and open to ridicule.

I don't even like it when it's done to puppies or kittens.

Friends, long, long ago had two kittens, named 'Dusty' and 'Bin', (remember that?) Fine, when they had the pair. Sounded stupid after they lost Dusty and ended up with one cat called Bin.

Please don't give them rhyming names, OP. It's a gimmick, like dressing identical twins in identical clothes. They're two people, but rhyming names will always link them in an irritating way.

Noooo, have pity on their confused friends' parents if nothing else. I struggle enough with local twins Molly'n'Poppy (end up tonguetwisting it into Polly'n'Moppy).

Ugh, it reminds me of someone I knew who named their child Charlie which rhymed exactly with their surname. I always wondered if they named their second Piggy Malone*.

*It's from a Two Ronnie's sketch for those, like me, old enough to remember it.

Zaphodsotherhead brilliant. Imagine shouting "bin" on a dark wet night trying to get your cat in.

No to rhyming twins or the same letter first name, just endless confusion. I still chuckle thinking about the woman who called her twins Ronnie & Reggie and had to be told about the Kray twins.

I taught Tina and Tony but they were Christina and Anthony for ‘best’.
In Leeds in the 60s I had a class with 2 sets of twins and a set of identical boy triplets.

Krong

I would do whatever I could to not make them feel like a 'set'. I would want them to feel like their own person, not a half of something.

this

And... Why on earth would you do this when you've already mentioning about being teased, it's just horrible really

I think it really depends on the names.
I initially thought of Phil and Lil from the rugrats, but think they are Phillip and Lillian? Which are actually really nice and compliment eachother.

Are they nicknames that rhyme as above? As that I don't think would be problematic, but if its their 'christian' names, how similar?

Well, that's me told, innit? Will look for a third name

Larry and Barry?

Do it!