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Give them totally different names
No. I don’t like it. I baby sat my twin baby cousin for several years, identical girls, and it drove me crazy that they had such different names.

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* Give them different names but with a similar / opposite meaning.
No, I’m not a fan of this either.

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* Give them names that start with the same letter.
This, yes. It’s what I did with my twins. I love alliteration.

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*Give them names that end with the same sound/letter
Nah, I don’t care for that much. Somebody once told me they liked rhyming twins, like Mason and Jason, etc. and after I really thought about it, I didn’t really like it.

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*Give them names with etymologies from the same language.
Nah to this too.

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*Give them names of famous sibset, couple (real or fictional).
Defintely not. This would just be way too corny for me.

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I suppose I never really understood the whole feeling of “twins are separate people and need separate names”...
A name doesn’t exactly make a child-it’s how a parent treats them. I picked names for my twins that started with the same letter, different middle names, because I liked the names, how they sounded together, and how they sounded with my older sons name as well. I personally think it’s quite silly when people make such a big deal about it!
I’ve asked them if they wished they had different names and they just look at me like I’m dumb-“why would we want a different name?”

This message was edited 4/8/2019, 11:41 AM