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Rhyming: Ugh, no. Bad idea. Too silly for the names of two real, individual people. What if they turn out to be very well-differentiated or even dislike each other? It'd be cloying and annoying, even embarrassing to have names that rhyme.

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Same meaning: is fine only if it is not too obvious ~ I think, say, Hannah and Grace are okay, or Erica and Heather. I don't think I'd mind if I had a twin whose name had the same meaning, unless everybody would notice it. If I had twins, I wouldn't do it, though, unless there was something that meant so much to me, I felt that giving that meaning to only one twin was unfair.

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Related names: Hmm. I think anagramming is as silly as rhyming, only less noticeable, so not quite as bad. Two flower names is as silly too, and just as noticeable; but a bit less embarrassing. I wouldn't do it.

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I guess I believe that every person should be named without respect to the names of his/her siblings, twins or not. The main thing to me would be that the names are distinct, and equally likeable.

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- chazda

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