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.)

No. Just no.

If you know they would be teased why even consider it?

as a twin myself I beg of you do not do it to them......

I knew twins who had the same name except for one letter, like Emma and Gemma, everyone took the piss

A long, long time ago I worked with identical twins called Galen and Zalen. Poor buggers. People really did take the piss.

I have just come up with Ariella (girl twin) and Arifella (boy twin)

please don’t do this to your children. They will be separate individuals with separate personalities and deserve to be treated as such.
They will have a hard enough time convincing other people of this without you making it difficult by choosing similar cutesy names.
Who are you doing it for? You or them?
You might find it cute and amusing - they probably will not.
I say this as an identical twin, whose parents named us very different names and did not dress us the same. Even without this Parental support ( of viewing as individuals in our own right) it wasn’t easy to get people to treat us as separate entities. Do not make it more difficult for them than it needs to be

Please do and rhyme with your surname too if possible. It will lighten the day for every teacher they ever encounter

Yes it will sound ridiculous and they will be bullied for it at school (wrong I know but that’s kids at school for you!)

I'm a GP. twins with similar names are a potent source of errors on their notes. Don't do it.

Please no, just no. They will always be muddled up, risk of mistakes on records and really they aren't dolls or kittens, at some point they are going to be 50 years old and have to live with the choice you made.

Please don’t! I know twins called Rhea and Ghia and their older Sister is is Sia, everyone laughs!!

I also went to school with twins with rhyming names. I’m not aware that they were bullied for it but that was possibly because we knew their parents were... um... of low intelligence

Billie and Willie?
Zoe and Chloe?
NO! Don't do it, its cringeworthy.
And cruel.

Hehehehe really this is a joke im hoping. Jenny and benny. Suki and ruki. Or are we talking about kittens? I have twin kittens and they dont even have ryhming names lolololol

Whitney and Britney. Please don't saddle them with rhyming names its so twee.

Hmmm, anyone actually read the thread? You know the bit where the OP comes on and says, OK, got the message we won't do it?

No need to keep piling in!

I accidentally hit YANBU when I meant YABU. 😳 And I’m a twinmum. Which somehow makes it worse. Agree with all PPs who have said it’s not a kind thing to do for your children, who will have to live with this decision and all the various mildly-to-significantly negative consequences of it long after you’ve gone.

Oops sorry I just saw your comment @steppemum - hadn’t RTFT. It just came up on my Facebook feed as highlighted thread so I commented. Good decision OP!

On a technical note you can just hit YABU and you vote will switch. Saved you a sleepless night there ordinarygirl

Very wrong. There are thousands of other names to choose from that won't subject your twins to a lifetime of ridicule. Can you imagine it at school? Please don't do that. In fact, I wouldn't even choose names that begin with the same letter. So they aren't both "P. Smith" or something.

do whatchu like-theyre both your babies

As a twin NO NO NO! Will get treated as a single entity without rhyming name.

She's not doing it!

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How silly.
I know of a family of four children whose names all rhyme. Everyone gets their name confused and it all sounds very silly indeed.

I worked in a school many years ago where a set of identical twin girls were both called different female versions of the same name - think Pauline and Paulette, from Paul.

It was daft. Not only did they share a birthday and dna, they shared a name.

I also worked in a different school where every member of a family had first names with the same initial letter (it was deliberate - unusual spellings of 3 of the names so the letter was the same)...I clearly remember thinking, 'so every piece of mail in that house is - or will be - addresses to J. Smith'...most peculiar.

Names are a big responsibility - they're going to have it until they're at least 16 (if you like it and they don't), so a little thought goes a long way.