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!!

is it michael? i think that's a bit different if it is cos they don't have the first letters don't make the same sound.

I knew twins called Joy and Jay

Lots of girls in Catholic countries are called Mary or Maria-something. and use the second name. So technically you could have a family of 6 girls all called Mary!

i knew a timothy and a tomathy twin set!

My SFIL has 2 lots of twins - Paul and Paul and Marino and Miranda

Not the brightest parents but the family members I've met have all been lovely...

George Foreman has six sons called: George Jr., George III, George IV, George V, and George VI, and George Travis Walls.

and a daughter called "Georgetta"

ROFL at George III etc - does he think he's a long lost relative of the Queen or something? Daft bugger.

I read a book recently by a woman from the Outer Hebrides where the tradition is to name after family members - she had 3 brothers called Donald - something like Donald John, Donald Alexander and just plain Donald (I guess at number 3 they ran out of relatives to name him after !).

George foreman named all his kids george because he figured that with his past it was likely that he would get dementia and forget their names otherwise. quite clever really.

ye that is my brothers name was just with someone saying about the first four letters being the same

A woman in my antenatal group had a girl, called it samantha. Her ds was called samuel.

i knew a family - Dad was Peter Peters - no biggy, he married a woman called Peta Peters and when their son was born - you guessed it - they named him Peter Peters too.

I went to school with twins called Timmy and Tammy. I'm loving Boy and Newboy

see i think samantha and samuel is as bad as shaynie and shayla.

Not the same but I know a married couple called Peter and Greta - it always makes me laugh, they sound like they should be in a children's story.

cyteen Isn't it Muslim tradition that all boys are called Mohammed though?

Of course that is not a Muslim tradition

I used to live next door to twins called Paula and Paulette. They had a brother called Paul [hmm}
I never knew their dad's name, but I could make a guess

LOL @ "Boy" & "Newboy"

Have posted on here before... my mum met a lady once with 3 sons called Dirk Dean and Darren!!!

To be followed by NextBoy and TooManyBoys, we wondered?

hatrick - Turkish English
Özlem and Özcan's parents must be very courageous.

Anglophones never correctly pronounce that first letter (it is not pronounced as "O"), nor any Turkish word that has 'c' in it. That last syllable -can is pronounced as "john".

Expat Turks I know tend to name their kids with simple names that don't have any Turkish-specific letters like ö, ç, ş, ü, etc.

isn't ç just pronounced ch?

Yes. Most expats avoid ç as well when naming their kids because the letter doesn't exist on qwerty keyboard and will get written as c and then pronounced as k.

I know a Leanne, with twin brothers called Lee and Liam.