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in reply to a message by IrishGirl
I don't think any of us would really know very many Patsy/Putsy-esque twins, nor would we know any twins named Tyler and Taylor or Christina and Christopher. I have a theory that we wouldn't care about names as much as we do if we lived in an area with no sophisticated, interesting names and if every baby we knew was called Samantha or Nicholas. I like both of those names very much, but they're boring. We need "name stimulation" to get us interested and thinking about names.
If this theory is correct, the majority of us would come from communities that have a few interesting [note: not neccessarily good, but *interesting*] names to spark our interest. Therefore, we probably wouldn't know too many themey twins.
Does this make any sense? It's very logical to me, but I can't phrase it correctly when written out. :/
If this theory is correct, the majority of us would come from communities that have a few interesting [note: not neccessarily good, but *interesting*] names to spark our interest. Therefore, we probably wouldn't know too many themey twins.
Does this make any sense? It's very logical to me, but I can't phrase it correctly when written out. :/
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I think that very few people in general, in any area or from any socio-economic class, give twins themey names or names that are too similar. I think that the vast majority realize that it is silly, that if they do so they and their twins will encounter a large amount of eye-rolling throughout their lives, and they know that twins need a sense of their separate identities, which themey and similar names would be an obstacle to.
In my example, only Mary Kate and Mary Beth, and Lamar and Lamont, were themey and too similar. I always rolled my eyes at Mary Kate and Mary Beth. Lamar and Lamont are not quite as bad. But in my experience, those kind of twin names are in a small minority.
In my example, only Mary Kate and Mary Beth, and Lamar and Lamont, were themey and too similar. I always rolled my eyes at Mary Kate and Mary Beth. Lamar and Lamont are not quite as bad. But in my experience, those kind of twin names are in a small minority.
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True
I don't think very many people would use Mary Kate and Mary Beth together. However, look at this list:
http://ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/twins.html
Nearly all of the top names for twins are very themey or sound similar. :/
I don't think very many people would use Mary Kate and Mary Beth together. However, look at this list:
http://ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/twins.html
Nearly all of the top names for twins are very themey or sound similar. :/
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I would say that's because people who use less similar names for their twins are less likely to use the same set of names as someone else so even though more people don't follow themes their sets aren't as popular or common.
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