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I went to school with one family that had 14 kids. 3 sets of twins and all the names were awful. Rodney and Rhonda, Briona and Triona, and Iesha and Laqueesha.

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Katey and Kylie

One of my sixth grade teachers had twin sons name Ryan and Brian/ Bryan (I don't remember how they spelled Brian, this was a long time ago)

I FORGOT THIS PAIR:
Sketch and Vienna

Brianna and Brionna. The most horribly confusing set of identical twins I have ever heard.

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EDIT: I remembered Kayli and Kaytlin.

This message was edited 1/21/2016, 9:43 AM

Kika Lika also Benna Jenna , Baylee Haylee , Briana Ariana

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I once knew identical twins named Maria Luisa and Maria Lucia. They were about 6 years old at the time and I was 15. To make things worse, their mother always dressed them alike. One thing that really annoys me is people who treat twins (especially identical twins) like they're one person in two bodies.

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When I visited Foz do Iguaçu last year, I met a Syrian family who had twin daughters named Zaida and Zaina. They were fraternal, though, and they had totally different interests.

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Still, similar twin names is probably one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to names. It's even worse when its given to triplets or higher-order multiples.

This message was edited 1/21/2016, 5:59 AM

Well my mother knew twins,boy and girl, when she was a child, named Horace and Doris.

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Not that bad really.

I don't know them, but my dad said he went to school with twins named Brett and Brent. Also I remember seeing tombstones at the site my grandpa was buried for twins named John Thomas and Thomas John.

Growing up, I encountered a couple sets that were rhyming or basically the same name: Donald and Ronald, Bernadette and Bernadine, Mary and Molly.

Kiera and Keyara. *side eye*

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I also once knew a girl who wanted to use the names Trixie and Dixie for twins someday.

A friend's friend's kids whom i've met..

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Shakira & Shakina (rhymes with vagina)....

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Also

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Keira & Kieran
Alexandra & Alexander

I'm a twin and I live in ohio so me and my sister go to the twinfest every year. So I've seen many bad ones. For starters.
Michael and Micaela
Allanah and Allenah
Sara and Sandra
Jack and Jackie
Aurora and Dawn
Hannah and Grace
Eliana and Elaina
James and Jamie
Ava and Maria
Faith and Hope
Olivia and Oliver
I have many more that's just starters.

Ned and Ted. Full names.

I know/know of quite a few twins (married into a family that has a lot of twins). But none are really BAD. Worst I guess would be William Robert "Bill" and Robert William "Bob". Which isn't terrible.

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DH's mother's side of the family is the one with all the twins (Bob and Bill are from his dad's side though). All the sets in the last 3 generations were giving matching first initials, but otherwise not too matchy. And all the twins I know around my age are named like two separate people.

I hate matchy matchy twin names anyway. But the absolute worst is Bingo and Dabo. No kidding, their mother was obsessed with playing bingo. I thought it was just a really rotten joke then she whipped out their birth certificates. I was mortified for those poor kids. Can you imagine being called Bingo or Dabo? It sounds like a pair of clown school drop outs to me. I don't know whatever happened to the kids because that was a really long time ago but I hope for their sake, they changed their names.

Well, these aren't necessarily bad names (at least in my opinion and from my expect I've) but I can understand completely why one would hate this twin set

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Molly & Polly (my mom and her twin) yes, muuuuch too matchy

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Most twins I can a crossed had reasonably well and more individualized names such as Emily & Rachael. Hannah & Meagan.

I went to school with twins named Christopher and Christian. Christopher eventually started going by Topher.

I never met them personally, but a friend of mine went to elementary school with Natasha & Matasha.

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And these aren't twins, but my mother grew up with brothers named Stephen Douglas and... Douglas Stephen. There was also a set of three sisters named Maria, Rosemary, and Mary Helen (don't remember birth order), which I've always thought was overkill.

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I'll add two I have seen in person:

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Tailor and Tialor (Taylor and Iyler, ripe for transcription errors)
Stephen and Steven

Mary Beth and Mary Kate

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Michael and Michelle. He was passive-aggressive and she was intent upon getting away with anything she chose on the basis of being somewhat pretty.

Once I met a triplet pair named Skye, Ryver, and Vallee.
Another time it was Sophia (Who mostly went by Sophie) and Celine.

I know twins named Jenna and Jennifer.

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If we're going for just worst names though and not super matching, I saw some once named Jordynce and Braelynn. O_o

This message was edited 1/20/2016, 10:20 AM

I haven't come across many twins period. Let alone twins with names that I've detested.

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If I had to think hard though I'd pick little Sophie and Chloe who I met when they were 5 and would be about 8 now I think...
Anyway, the reason they spring to mind is because individually they're popular names (I like Sophie ever so slightly, prefer Sophia, but I don't like Chloe and never have). Together however they're like a popular overload!

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On a side note; the best twins (naming wise) I've ever met were a b/g set called Devon and Eleanor.