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Twin names
So today I met a mom at the library who had 3 sets of twins:Madeline and Max, age 7
Samantha and Sam, age 4
Annabelle and Abe, age 2I noticed she had a pattern going: Full name for the girls, nicknamey names for the boys. And all sets of twins had matching first letter names. I find that rather cutesy, but WDYT? Did you like the names / combos she picked? Aside from name issues, I was very surprised to see 3 sets of twins in one family, but she said they ran in her famiy.:)
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I like Madeline and Max, but I don't really like her pattern, 1 syllable boy's name and 3 syllable girls name that begin with the same letter. Plus, as already stated, Sam and Samantha are too close and too confusing.
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Samantha and Sam is horrible! I don't love the other sets but they're alright. I'd like Annabelle and Abe if Abe was short for something; I can't stand any of the boys' names as full names.
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The sisters go together, and the brothers go together, but the sisters don't go with the brothers in my opinion. The pattern is a bot odd, especially with the firt-letter thing; I don't like that. Samantha and Sam is really wierd- literally every Samantha I've ever met goes by Sam, so they're very likely to have 2 Sam's running around. "Hey Sam, come over here... No, not you, the girl Sam." Confusing...
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Samantha and Sam is wayyy to confusing. What if she wants to be called Sam? Other names are fine.
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Ditto.
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I like all of the names except Samantha.
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I really like Max, Madeline is nms but ok. Well, at least it's not Max and Maxine! Samantha and Sam's lame, Abe's silly as a full name. Annabel and Abraham would have been marginally better. Overall, the sibset's matchy and silly, but I guess it could be worse. And, as concerns having so many twinsets, I can't help but wondering if she didn't undergo some fertility treatment.
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Wow, three sets of twins! I'd be scared to get pregnant after the second set. And they're so close in age, well for twins I mean. I really dislike alliteration, so I don't care for any of the sets. Madeline and Max are fine and same goes for Annabelle and Abe, but Samantha and Sam are horrible. They're practically the same name.
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I don't like the matching first letters, but the combos are nice. Well all except Samantha and Sam, which I think is awful since Samantha gets shortened to Sam all the time.
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I don't really mind the matching names thing. To me it's just a way to make everything easier if you can't pick between a few names; you have a narrower field that way. I don't particularly like Annabelle & Abe, but that's mostly personal preference than anything.I'm kind of unsure about Samantha & Sam, as it seems like you might run into problems if you ever wanted to shorten Samantha..
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I like Samantha, but not paired with Sam!
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