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Rhyming names like Chloe and Zoe or Blake and Jake. I don't mind themes and I don't mind names that start with the same letter as long as the names don't sound to similar. I also don't mind names that have the same/similar meanings (like Zoe and Eve).

Fred and Fredrick. No joking.

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Inevitably someone would ask, "Why did your parents give you the same name?" The response, "They didn't. I'm Fred. He's Fredrick." (Or the other way around.

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Forehead slaps all around.

Patrick/Patricia and M'Lee/M'Lou

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Patrick and Patricia were a set of twins who were baptized at my church not too long ago. I nearly went nuts!

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M'Lee and M'Lou are 2 women my mom knows (they're in their late 50s/early 60s). I have no idea where their names came from.

I went to school with two pretty bad sets (Donald and Ronald and Bernadette and Bernadine). The worst, however, I read in a book -- twin boys named Lucky and Chance. Just dreadful!

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ETA that lately I've been liking Brenna and Bridget for twin girls. I'm sure it's just a phase. ;-)

This message was edited 8/19/2008, 2:13 PM

-Rhyming names, and ridiculously similar names. I knew twins named Tayler and Tyler in 4th grade. Tayler was a girl and Tyler was a boy. But both of those names are unisex, so they never got called the right name.
-When people use one normal name and then make up a name to rhyme with it, like Melissa and Kalissa(haven't seen these, but you get my idea)
-Names that are only different by one letter, like Melanie and Malanie.
-Names that are just feminine versions of the male twin's name, like John and Jane or William and Wilma.

This message was edited 8/19/2008, 1:57 PM

ewww...carol & cheryl. both names i dislike anyways.

I went to high school with twins named Jean and Joan...and they had a younger sister named Jane. To be fair, I think that their family was from the Phillipines and wanted to give their children English names, but it's essentially the same name used three times.

Most twins sets that I know have names that start with the same letter. Which isn't terrible but it always annoyed me.

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Joshua and Jason

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Terrence "Terry" and Tyler

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Jeremy and Jessica

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Carson and Casey (g)

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Sean and Sarah

Growing up I had twin friends named Julie and Jolie, which I found were way too similar. I also have friends named Daniel Lynn and David Lee (Lynn and Lee are after their twin uncles). I also know a Derral and Sheryl. But the most annoying ones I've ever seen were twins on a talk show named Tuesdy and Wednesdy. I'm not exactly sure of the spelling, but they were pronounced TOOZ-dee and WENS-dee. Those were just too much for me. Not only are the names too similar and themey, but they sounded very childish.

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And I find all the ones you listed very annoying too. If I had twins I would give them two separate names. Nothing sing-songy or cute, just names that I love and compliment each other.

I have heard of (not personally know) of these:
Taylor and Tyler
Hope and Faith
Jayden and Jordan
Madison and Mason
Megan and Morgan
Makayla and Makenzie
Jayden and Jaylen
and of course:
Emma and Emily

Bob & Joe/Yana & Lana

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Lana was short for Svetlana, but still...

I had a set of twins in a class I taught named Sina (SEE-na) and Sayna (SIGH-na). They were boy/girl twins...It was so hard to keep the names straight the first day....

I don't dislike all of these combos, but here are the twins I've known

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B/B
Seth and Ian
Mathew and Nathan
Ali and Stanley
Brian and Jeff

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G/G
Brianne and Marianne
Tempest and Azura
Hanna and Hydee
Madelyn and Morgan

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and some triplets
B/B/G
Carter, Cameron and Caroline

misty and kristy

I don't think I know any twins with too annoying of names.

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The ones I've known I can think of are:

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Stephanie and Heather
Stephanie and Lucy
Courtney and Nicole
Amy and Mitch
Ashley and Amber
Matthew and Marlin
Joshua and Jeremy
Madelyn and Kaitlyn

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I'm not a huge fan of the ones that start with the same letter, and Madelyn and Kaitlyn are too matchy, but none are really that bad.

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Oh, wait, on some family tree thing I remember seeing second cousins or something names Jaxon and Dixon. Bleh!

Madison and Taylor, (identical girls)

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Much tooo trendy for my taste. Also:

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Adam and Aubrey, (identical boys)
Caitlin and Chad, (girl/boy) - this isn't too bad, but I still wouldn't use it

Anything that's too similar, basically. Outside of English-speakign countries, however, I've never heard of twins with rhyming or similar names, though.

I once saw Nazira and Nazhyre in the paper. Also on my bus we had Rashid and Rasheeda.

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Others

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Jessica "Jessie" and Jennifer "Jenny"
Sarah and Scott (this one doesn't bother me, they start with the same letter but aren't too similar)
Parin and Payal
Peyton and Eli (this was bad because it was after the Mannings but Peyton was a girl)

Brandon and Brenda (from Beverly Hills 90210)

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Then I know of a family who had two pair of twins named Jennifer and Jessica/ Christian and Christopher.

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Most twins I know have nice names, though:

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Amelie and Annika
Sara and Nora
Katharina and Christine

Jessica and Jeanette. I just don't like the combo of Jess and Jen

A poster here once said she had identical twin girls named Jazzlyn and Jesslyn. I always hoped she was one of the perople lying here about having twins, because I really didn't like that. They already look the same, why name them pretty much the same things as well.

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Years ago I saw on TV a Chinese lady, living in the Netherlands named Anna. She had twin girls named: An and Na...

They all don't really get on my nerves but a know a few pairs of twins, here are their name:

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Laura and Sarah
Kera and Wyatt
Seth and Adah (these get on my nerves)
Louise and Laura (I think they're identical, the rest are fraternal)
Monica and Marcy

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That's all I can think of right now, I may add more later.

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All of the above.

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I don't hate (but definitely don't love) starting with the same letter, ala Ben and Bridget, but the rest are just too much. Give the child his/her own identity.

I've only known one set of twins who had annoying names, and they were Mary Kate and Mary Beth. I'm assuming they were formally Mary Katherine and Mary Elizabeth, but I didn't know them well enough to be sure about that.

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Very annoying.