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[Opinions] twins
What are all the names of twins you know in real life?
Which sets do you think are well-paired (regardless of whether or not you like the names)?
Three boys nappin', one mama namenerdin'
To peruse my top 100ish names: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/82589"My Inner Birthing Mother Paddles a Canoe" and other non-name musings
found on my blog: http://jodifriesen.blogspot.ca/2014/07/paddle-power.html
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Not many....Emma and LisaAmanda and Juliaand that's all, folks ;)
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Sonya and Donna - which I think sound too similar
Steven and Gary - they go together well enough
Samantha and Tabitha - I don't really like the matching ending
Colleen and Bridget - well-paired
Sydney and Josie - I suppose they go together
Brittany and Brent - too matchy
Miranda and Dylan - well-paired
Katey and Kiley - way too matchy
Suzy and Deanne - not real well-paired
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Girl/Girl twins:Charlie and Taylor (6)
Prudence "Prue" and Rebecca "Beccy" (30)
Taylor and Annika (18)
Charlotte "Charlie" and Isabella "Bella" (4)
Hannah and Erin (6)
Kate and Erin (25)
Carmel and Marian (40ish)
Sandra "Sanddie" and Sueellen (45ish)Boy/Boy twins:Ronald "Ron" and Allan (65ish)Boy/Girl twins:Liam and Isabella "Bella" (7)
Stevie Ray and Tabitha (2.5)
Vani Vidya "Vani" and Divyesh (5)
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Geoffrey and Andrew (identical)
Lauren and Michelle (f/f non-identical)
Kim and Russell (f/m)
Mair, Sorcha and Ruairi (f/f/m triplets)I think they're all well paired because they're different names. The parents haven't tried to make them match.
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I don't know many twinsI know...Chelsea and Bradley
Adam and Scott
Ellese and Paige
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Some I went to school with:
Courtney and Nicole
Lucy and Stephanie - I like these two together
Stephanie and Heather
Ashley and Amber
Amy and Mitch - always like that their names were normal but "different"
Matthew and Marlin - liked the combo of one very common and one uncommon
Joshua and Jeremy
Dustin and NicholasAnd some younger ones I know:
Evelyn and Grayson
Savannah and Charlotte
Cosette and Wolfgang - I think they're awesomely epic together, but maybe a bit too much for my real-life tastesOh and my DH's grandmother was a twin. Joyce and Robert

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Cosette and Wolfgang are pretty epic. A bit over-the-top, but wow! Amy and Mitch are fun.
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Katie & Jack
Chloe & Sophie
Sophie & Katie
Georgia & Matilda
Dominic & Sadie
Eleanor & Devon (b)
Emily & Laura
Laura & JamesAnd that's all I can think of right now!
I think Chloe & Sophie, and Sophie & Katie go well together but I don't like any of the names. I think Georgina & Matilda would have fitted better than Georgia & Matilda. My absolute favourite are g/b twins Eleanor & Devon, they would be about six/seven years old now.
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I actually think Georgia and Matilda are awesome together. Katie and Jack are sweet together.
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I know:Maja & Ivana
Martina & Ivana
Goran & Zoran (brother Ninoslav ‘Nino’)
Marina & Marinko
Petra & Filip
Matea & Domagoj
Antea & Matea (sibs Marta & Ivan)
Tia & Lota (sibs Tara & Leon)
Ivan & Marica
Mirela & Arnel
Tamara & Ivana
Sanja & Tanja (brother Zoran)+ triplets - Matea, Valentin & Valentina (they also have an older brother Matej)

I think all of them work well together, apart from the overly matchy ones.

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Ugh, that family with the triplets has really a really annoying case of the matchies. Matea and Domagoj are nice.
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oops, tripleUgh, that family with the triplets has really a really annoying case of the matchies. Matea and Domagoj are nice.

This message was edited 10/24/2014, 11:28 AM

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oops, doubleUgh, that family with the triplets has really a really annoying case of the matchies. Matea and Domagoj are nice.

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Corinne and Jennifer. Poor Jen.
Tiffany and Adam. Fine, I guess. Nms, either of em.
Rashaun and Richelle. Perfecto!
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Sophie and Claire
Jessica and Megan
Terrina and Kristy
Areta and Alexandra (they go by Rita and Sandy)
Grace and Madison
Brooke and Eden
Kelly and Aaron
Benjamin and Jacqueline
Laurel and KarenI also know triplets Kylie, Elise and Jaimee.
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Benjamin & Jacqueline are kind of nice together, actually. Sophie and Claire are nice too. I know a mother named Claire with a daughter named Sophie.
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At the school I work at, there are girl twins named Teagan and Kaela.
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All the sudden I'm drawing blanks on the twins I know! Let's see.
Mary Margaret and Caroline (like these)
Adam and Andrew (meh)
Anna, Emily, and Allie (triplets, but whatev) (fairly nice)
Patrick and Molly (cute but nms)
Anne and Emma (cute)
Caroline and Connor (seem mismatched)
Susan and Katie (Katherine) (cute)that's all I can think of!!

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Patrick and Molly are very sweet together.
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Ashley and Amanda (27) [Older brother, James]
Ashley and Amanda (22) [Older brother, Andrew]
Kaitlyn and Kayla (19) [Older siblings, Kerri, Derek, Ashley and younger brother, Stephen]
Briana and Courtney (22)
Corey and Casey (both female, 18)Lindsay and Joshua (9) [Younger brother, Bennett]Triplets:
Sabrina, Samantha, and Mercedes (22)

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Rhys Kieran & Ceridwen Jill "Ceri" (my step brother & sister)
Charlotte Sophie & James Frederick (my cousins)
Mary Love & Sara Beth (I only know Mary Love personally but she goes by both names. Not sure if the same is true for her twin)
Clara & Mathis
Emma & Chiara
Valeria & Sofia
Tiffany & Candace
Zoe & Madison "Madi"
Jayden & Skyler (boy & girl)
Georgia & Ruby
Christopher "Chris" & Luke
Bronwen & RhysI think Ceridwen and Rhys go quite well, and James and Charlotte fit too. I love Clara and Mathis.

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I actually dug up an old thread about this and apparently I knew more twins back then than I can think of now, so I just copied and pasted and stuck on my fiancé and his siblings.B/B:
Stefan and Garrett
Kristofer and Matthew
Steven Patrick and Scott LeighG/G:
Janna Alyssa & Laura Brianna
Laura & Linda
Hailey Lennis & Jillian Marie
Christina "Tina" and Alexandra "Anna"B/G:
Jonathan & Kaitlyn
Benjamin & Sarah
Ryan John and Kaitlyn Margaret
Kathleen Elizabeth and Kevin David
And a set of triplets, Bradley "Brad", Robert "Bobby", and Kristen
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Peter & Christian
Pierre & Patric
Karl & Oskar
Camilla & Marie
Rebecca & Rachael
Jenny & Erik
Hedda & Estrid
Marie & Christina
Henrik & Joel
Glenn & DanielMost of them are between 25 and 35 years old.
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Ugh I can't remember them all. Some of them:Dalton-Mercedes & Dalton-Maria
Susanna & CarolinaMartin & Elin
Vilhelm & Ida
Adam & AmandaOscar & EricI also known triplets named Alexander, Sebastian and Linus
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I really really like Susanna and Carolina together.
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Alexander "Alex" & Christopher "Chris" (early 20s)
Steven & Charles "Chuck" (50s or 60s)
Meagan & Kendra (late teens)
Lance & Logan (male) (late 20s)
William & Brian (early 20s)
Lily & Aaliyah (4 months)
Cora & Julian (1 year)
Evan & Stuart (early 20s)
Cody & Cory (early 20s) and sibling twins Chad & Brooke (late teens)
Kyle & Kristen (early 20s)
Elijah "Eli" & Cooper (3 or 4 years)I love Cora and Julian. They're the only ones I feel go really well with each other.
Lily and Aaliyah seems like a mouthful. I know Lily honors and they loved Aaliyah.
I think Steven and Charles are paired well, and Meagan and Kendra is okay.

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William & Brian are two I never would have put together...weird.
Lily & Aaliyah's parents are likely to regret that tongue twister.
Cora and Julian are awesome, individually and together.
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Off the top of my head...Twins:
Sawyer and Samuel (age: ~9)
Hannah and Ashlyn (age: ~9)
Adam and Jeremy (age: 22)
Sharen and Sharena (age: ~21)
Stephanie and Danielle (age: ~21)
Ashlyn and Brooklyn (age: nb)
Ashley and Amanda (age: ~23)
Brenna and Morgan (f) (age: ~22)
Haleigh and Kaitlyn (age: ~7)Triplets:
AJ (f), Blake (m), and Casey (m) (age: ~8)
The only ones I feel go badly together are Sharen (prn sha-REEN) and Sharena (prn sha-REEN-uh). Ashlyn and Brooklyn (who are newborns that an administrator at my internship school just had), are too matchy for my taste as well.

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ABC triplets...how original. I don't mind Brenna and Morgan together.
Sawyer and Samuel is only a teeny bit tongue-twister-y and they are both nice names.Really, you know two Ashlyn's? And both are twins? Go figure.
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I feel like a lot of parents of multiples (especially higher-order multiples) do the A/B/C/etc thing. I kind of wonder if, for the triplets, they had the same names picked out so that no matter the order of the genders, it was the same, since all the names are unisex. I'm not sure whether AJ was short for anything or not.One of the Ashlyn's (twin to Hannah) is a student in my 4th grade class that I intern in. The other Ashlyn (twin to Brooklyn), I don't actually know, but one of the admins at the school gave birth to her just this week. If you look at popularity data, Ashlyn has been hovering around the 200-mark for a couple decades, so it's pretty popular.
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Rachel and Sarah x2
Sarah and Jessica
Philippa and Victoria
Charlotte and Victoria
Kitty and IvyJames and Jason
Chad and Lee
Kaelan and Kailan
Callum and JamesSunny and Jay

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Are Kaelan and Kailan pronounced differently? KAY vs KAI?
I do like Callum and James together.
I feel like Philippa, Victoria, and Charlotte could be triplets. :)
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Yes, Kay vs. Kai. They have an older sibling whose name also ends in -lan. Very matchy!I agree that Philippa, Victoria and Charlotte sound like triplets :)
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Emilie and Leonie don't actually start with the same letter or rhyme, but they seem to overlap too many sounds for me.I want Theo and Robert to be Theodore nn Theo and Robert nn Bert.
And when they were very small, they were called Teddy and Robby/Berty.
LOL.
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All that I can remember:Gillian and Patricia (Patsy)
Marcelle and Mark
Adre and Janine (both girls)
Claire and Justine
Ian and Lisa
Debra and Diane
Cecilia and Emilia I think. Never met them, but they were the children of a colleague for a brief period. I'm certain of Cecilia.
Olaf and Ulf
Jane and Patricia
Carissa and GenevieveI think Gillian and Patricia make a good team. Also Claire and Justine.
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Cecilia and Emilia seem like they should be twins in children's story-book land. :)
Gillian and Patricia rock together!
Carissa and Genevieve are not bad either.
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Sarah & Mary
Katherine "Kat" & Elizabeth "Liz"
Amy & Ellie
Amy & Katherine
Emma & Lauren
Sabrina & Lucinda (my fav)
Evelyn & Erin
Grace & EsmeeDaniel & Edward
Jasbir & ArvindEdward & Kathryn "Katy"Bonus Triplets:Lucy, Alice, Kathryn

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Sabrina and Lucinda are pretty great together!
I'm liking Grace and Esmee too.
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I liked Lucy and Alice but they lost me at Kathryn. I would have liked Kate or Catherine better.
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Theodore nn Ted and Patricia nn Patty
Ellen and Lee (g)
Bridget and Kirsten
Joseph nn Joe and Thomas nn Tom
Anthony nn Tony and Janet
Mary Kate and Mary Beth
John and Andrew (my nephews)
Aubrie and Charlotte (my great-nieces)
Alexander nn Alex and Maxwell nn MaxI particularly like Alex and Max for twins, although Alex is so overused. Mary Beth and Mary Kate is ridiculous. The rest are just whatever, not particularly great or bad together.
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I don't love the names, but Aubrie and Charlotte seem pretty good together.
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did you ever read "Compromising Positions?"By Susan Isaacs? It's a very funny mystery making fun of rich people on Long Island. The main character is Judith Singer and she appears in another mystery written and set twenty years later. Anyway, one of her group of friends, a friend she and the other women don't actually like all that much, is Mary Alice, who they call Malice.
It's mentioned more than once that Malice is one of four sisters, all of them named Mary. Near as I can remember it's Mary Alice, Mary Jean, Mary Ellen and I think Mary Kate or Mary Catherine. Malice is the only one we actually see in the book, and she is flaky and dim and hyper-Catholic, which I suppose is why there's four Marys in her family.I know a Filipino family with four daughters, all of them named Maria, but they all go by their middle names and somehow it seems much less silly that way. Ramona, Teresa, Andrea and I think the other one is Carmen or Carmela.
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(I've written about this before)-until about a generation ago, it was usual, in my area, for all girls to have the name Marie as a first name, and the boys, Joseph. They weren't, usually,called by these names;Marie Constance would be just called Constance.
Although sometimes it was hyphenated, as, Marie-Mai, or Marie-Blanche, and they'd then be called the whole name. At one time, any French-speaking men in the Canadian military would be referred to as "Joe LeBlanc", because of all the Josephs, and Le Blanc being a common last name.
I don't know how the soldiers themselves felt about this, but it's pretty mild, so I rather expect they bore it patiently.
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My sister's husband is French-Canadian (well, his parents were but they moved to the US before he was born so he's an American citizen) and she told me it was their tradition to give every boy the middle name Joseph and every girl the middle name Marie. Not the first name. Is this not correct?
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Probably.
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G/G
Natasha & Natalia
Karina & Krista
Ella & Evelyn
Dana & ShannonB/G
Dominic & Alyssa
Joshua & Jenna
Emmett & MichaelaB/B
Ricky & Rodger
Matthew & BrandonI think Dominic & Alyssa are nice together. And Emmett & Michaela and Matthew & Brandon are well paired too,
If I had to pick an alliterated pair, I think Joshua & Jenna is fine or Ella and Evelyn is least confusing from the girls sets.

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