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.)

Also, I read that she's now choosing not to use the rhyming names, but I just figured I share the examples I'd seen anyway!

I’m disappointed that I still don’t know the names you wanted to use OP

Met 2 year old twins once at a soft play centre. Henry and Harry. Just why???

Please don't OP. I work as a midwife and have seen some truly awful ridiculous names given to babies over the years. I've often thought how their school years went. Poor little mites.

My twin girls are now 9yrs old, their names don't ryhme, but both ended up with rhyming nick names. Doh! Even worse when they were babies they sounded a bit like French poodles as they'd get Gigi and Fifi.

Have you been indulging in YouTube clips of "The Two Ronnies?" They had a knack for this sort of idea......

Don't do it! I once met twins named Kristy and Kirsty. Such a bad idea. They'll be similar enough, give them distinctive names that don't sound funny or silly together.

I am an identical twin and our names are kind of rhyming. Never been a problem for us.

I wouldnt.

Used to work with twins who had the exact same name bar the first letter..like Eva and Ava. It took myself and everyone else a while to get used to who was who. I also have a friend who has a twin..their names are exactly the same bar the last letter. It just makes me think the mum loved 1 name so much and so just slightly altered it for the twin or couldnt think of another name

I personally would prefer giving them competely different names

I also know a boy and girl twin for example called Paul and Paula ..also a big no

I knew twins some years ago called Anthea and Andrea - it was so confusing.

Willy and Billy

Twin mum here. Don't do it. You want them to be individual. I nearly called my girls names with the same initial and then realised that was a bad idea. Two forks with the same initials and date of birth. Recipe for disaster.

I've always joked that I wanted to call my twins. Gracey and Macey. Their surname ends in a -ey let's say Hastey for an example's

'This is my twins Gracey Hastey and Macey Hastey. Gracey and Macey Hastey'

I didn't call them this.

Trust me, you'll get so annoyed as a twin mum at people refusing to be able to see how they look different, overly similair names willl do your head in

I also reckon different initials are important for labelling shoes.

There was twins in the ICU when they were.born called Octivia and Olivia. I thought that was a bit off really.

Not uncommon in my partner's culture to give twins close sounding names, also quite common for brothers or sisters to have a running theme, like all ending in the same sound but all with very different shortened forms

Found it weird to start with, find it quite endearing now

Don't do it. My parents did this to my twin and I. I hate it when people ask what my twin is called - I always give his nickname to hide the rhyming.

In my mother's defence she had had an emergency caeseran and was probably high/out of it. And my dad is totally in love/enamoured with my mum so basically agrees with everything she suggests.

Growing up we never knew who she was calling for - that caused hundreds of arguments in itself.

*13Rockhopper81

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.*

This I went to school with a family of 6 siblings who all had derivatives of the same name