so someone i know has

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a dd1 called shaynie-leigh

and has now called her dd2 shayla

going to get confusing when both are called shay at school!!

ooh bad.

not just bad, but very chavvy!

well she is a bit so that's understandable. its how similar they are that baffles me. it would be like having two children called thomas and thomasina, alexandra and alexander, christian and christiana, kristy and kirsty, emma and emily, jadie and jodie - you get the picture.

I've met a couple of mailies where the dc all have very similar names and I think it's a it odd.

Jack and Jake, Kayleigh and Hayley are the two that I remember thinking at.

Mailies?? families

Strikes me as serious lack of imagination

One member of my family gave all her three sons the same first name, which was also her husband's first name. The girl but the feminine version of it (the same name but with an a on the end). The boys are mostly known by their middle names but all the same I think it is pretty weird.

I still maintain its not as bad as the traveller couple a friend met once, whose ds were called Boy and NewBoy.

Its pretty bad though...

My friend was telling me all of his siblings including his sister have his name as a middle name. His mum was desperate to use it but her dh finally gave in when my friend was born!

My sister claims she met someone on a bus whose dc were called Daniel and Danielle. She assumed that one was a step child, but this was not the case.

lol at Boy and NewBoy.

Oh and my dp and his brother are called Lee & Perry i think she was addicted to the sauce!

there are twins in dundee called one and two with the same middle names

I am NOT joking

and its pn aine and twa in the terrible dundonian accent

My friend named her dds izabella and daniella, i find that a little confusing even.

In my last job I came across a family where the siblings names all began with Sh -I can't remember the exact names but there were 4 of them called something like Shakira, Shannon, Shane and Shianna

I know of twins named Daniel & Danielle - and they have the same middle initial!

When discussing this with a friend, at a school where she worked were twins Hassan & Hussein (or similar sounding)..

Why!

having names with the same first letter is common i think. i could even fathom the same first two letters. but bloody 4!!

my aunt's husband has a twin. sister they are called Donald and Dawn.

I used to know twins called Charles and Charlotte.

It's like Enid Blyton where the twins were always called things like Harry and Harriet or like the grandparents in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I know there's a family in this town with at least three sons called Mohammed [different middle name] surname. Makes their medical records somewhat confusing.

thats me and my brother both start Mich and my younger brothe also starts with an M. Its never bothered me that my brother and i have very similar names we are both very different people

I know a woman with two daughters - Charlotte and Scarlett.....

That's not as bad as the OP, though!!

I went to school with a Shaney-Leigh. She got called Shaney, as nobody could be arsed with the double barrell first name.

shelley - what's your brother called?