Comments on: How Similar Should Twin Names Be?

By: Jenn in Canada

Jenn in Canada — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:41:43 +0000

I like it when there is something linking the twin names – similar styles or histories, perhaps. But I don’t think they should sound too alike. The babies will have to share birthdays, classmates and maybe even their appearance. Should they really have to share their names too?

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:20:08 +0000

There are a lot of fraternal twins in my mother’s family and some of their names are very similar: Lonny and Donny, Chris and Chase, Juliet and Janet, Travis and Tianna. I think it is rather infantilizing, twins are individuals not a matched set.

By: Bella

Bella — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:15:06 +0000

I have to say, I haven’t come across too many twins with very similar sounding names (although I do remember when I was a kid knowing Indian twin girls called Nithi and Vithi – so it seems this naming convention goes across cultures)

If I had twins, I would probably give them different sounding names -
eg. Chrystal and Alicia (girls I used to teach), Robert and Alison (my cousins) – in exactly the same way I would choose names for other siblings, that sound different but still sound nice together.

I have also come across a lot of twins with names that are moderately similar – eg. Casey and Carley (girls I used to go to school with), Callum and Mason (boys I used to teach – although these names aren’t *as* similar as others are, I still would class them as similar because of the last syllable) and Kea and Loa (twins from Tonga who are actually named after Hawaiian mountains).

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:24:16 +0000

@ Karen – I’ve never even thought about it from that angle. Thanks!

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:43:22 +0000

My mother has two (identical) twin sisters, with extremely similar names. Imagine Tonya and Tanya. She already felt like odd-man out and was reminded of it each and every time she needed to say or heard their names. It was a sore point with her to say the least. I would go out of my way to choose dissimilar names, though still names that would coordinate with each other and other siblings, too.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:07:53 +0000

this vote is stupid what kind of question is that. but i picked dont sound similar