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I don't put Elizabeth and Libby together at all. Or Margaret and Daisy.

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And I think that Jack and John are perfect together just in sound alone. I mean, a lot of people use the same meanings for twins anyways. I would have never put them together as being the same name.

Or Sean and John. Or Bill and Will.

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*sigh*

I know a family with four boys-

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John, Ian, Jack and Sean (pr. like Shane). The daughter in the family is, happily, Ruth.

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sa

double post, sorry.

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John, Ian, Jack and Sean (pr. like Shane). The daughter in the family is, happily, Ruth.

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sa

This message was edited 3/8/2006, 9:51 AM

I agree, it's goofy, but what's even worse, imo, is naming a child two forms of the same name. I've seen Lisa Beth and Liam William. I kid you not!

I don't think having the same backround doesn't make Jack and John an impossible twin combo. I bet that no-one aside from people who are into names even know that they names are related, since they do sound fairly different.

Same egg, same name?

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If they are identlical twins, they come from the same egg. So giving them the names Jack and John *could* be intentional.

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John and Ian or Elizabeth and Isabella would be the same thing.

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I would not do it, but I don't think other people will think about it. And probably the parents did not know it either. Since many boys are named Jack (or named Jackson but called Jack), I think people forget that Jack was orginally a nn for John.

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"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty

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"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)

I hate it because it's one of those cutsey twin names. I know a family with twins named Christopher and Christian, so even if the parents knew John and Jack were the same name, they still may have chosen it. People seem to think that twins need twin names. I have no idea why.

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I know Jack now is a popular given name, but for people in older generations, Jack is only a nickname for John, not a proper given name. I much prefer John nn Jack, and I bet that will become more popular considering how trendy Jack and Jackson are.

I don't think it's that bad. I reckon if I asked ten of my friends what Jack used to be a nn for, I'd get blank looks from almost all of them. And in your other examples, most of them aee too close, but I think Margaret and Daisy would be fine. You have to remember the rest of the world aren't name nerds like us! And maybe the parents wanted to give Jack and John similar names, as a connection, in the same way that my sisters and I have the same middle name.
S xx

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I don't think a lot of people know that Jack started out as a nickname for John. Just us namesnerds. So it definitely bugs the heck out of me, but if you asked any random person on the street, they probably wouldn't know they're the same name.

Ugh. I guess Andie is right, that kind of thing only bothers us "namenerds," but BOY, does it ever! :b

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This came up the other day when I was watching "Walk the Line" on DVD with my sister. When Johnny Cash was younger, he went by J.R., but they showed his older brother in the movie, whose name was JACK. John & Jack. *rolls eyes* So I pointed this out to my sister, 'How stupid, they both have the same name.' She was bewildered, 'No they don't, one is John & one is Jack.' I replied: 'But Jack is a form of John.' She had no idea...or claimed not to. People, she's 43 years old! LOL. I pointed out the John/Jack Kennedy thing, and she was like 'oh.' *smacks forehead* I guess we're not just the only ones who know these things we're also the only ones who CARE. :b

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~Heather~

I dont find it bad at all.
TO be honest i love the names Seamus & Hamish and i would use them together 100% if Pierre actually liked Seamus

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~~~~~~~~~~ Bex ~~~~~~~~~~~
Lover of the book Sirius & Remus

Agree

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There were twins in my local paper named Emma & Emily, what were the parents thinking? Twins are not just twins, they are individuals who deserved to be treated as such. This just annoys me to no end.

Not many people know that Jack is a nn for John. When I told my mate that Johnny Depp's son was John Christopher III 'Jack' she didn't understand why he was called Jack.

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I really don't think the average person knows that.

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Along the same lines, my sister's given name is Sara. But she goes by the nn Sally. Most people don't get that at all!

Seeing as though my husband is John but goes by Jack, I think that's pretty bad. Even though not all connections between names are well known (Isabel and Elizabeth, Marguerite and Daisy, etc) the John Jack connection is pretty strong because of JFK choosing to go by Jack. It's funny you should mention atrocious twin combos because I was looking at the SSA site that lists the most popular twinsets in 2004. Among the worst were: Mia and Mya, Jada and Jaden, Brian and Brianna, Kayla and Kyla, Taylor and Tyler. Mind you these are not isolated incidents of bad naming--these are THE most popular twinsets!
Here's the link in case you're curious:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/twins2004.html

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----Betsy-----

John and Jack... cute!! I think that nowadays John and Jack are viewed pretty much as seperate names and seldom assiciated with each other.

I think this is the type of thing that would bother us namenerds, but to the rest of the world...they don't even know! I think it isn't that bad, it could be much worse! Such things like Jayden and Kayden, or Jack and Jake, or Ryan and Rylan, i'd take Jack and John, not that I would ever do that but noneless it could be worse.

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