S/O: real life “no they didn’t” twin names

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another thread about naming twins had me thinking about twins I know in real life they had some “what were they thinking” naming patterns. From my HS and college days I know twins named:

Karen and Erin
Cody and Brody
Heaven and Feaven (pronounced Heaven with an F)
Chance and Lucky


Anyone have others to share that make them giggle? (And no, your aunt who is a teacher didn’t have students named Dijon and Dijonaise or Limoncello and Orangecello — that’s urban legend that always comes up!)

Those names are insulting. Parents must’ve been high at the time of choice(?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bambi and Fawn ugh

Nooooo that is the worst.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is my yearly thread contribution where I share that when I was in grade school I knew a Teddy who allegedly had a twin named Teddy.

I also knew a family who had 4 boys, one set of twins, and their names were something like Justin, Preston, Austin, and Dustin. It was a lot.

When I was a kid I had karate classes with Keith, Kevin, Kyle, and Kris. All boys, all a year apart from each other. There was a fifth brother, also k name, but he was a baby so I never had occasion to learn what it was.

For the older/50s style twin contribution, I knew a Bernard and Bernadette. Really nice folks.

Is naming your kids all the same first letter a 50s thing? I don’t quite get it..... why all daily letters with exact same first initial?

PP here, and the set of 5 boys with same initials were all born in the mid to late 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A little OT but the repetitive name thing reminded me...

I know a couple who lost their DD, named Alice, to pediatric cancer when she was 8. The couple’s marriage couldn’t survive the tragedy and they divorced. The husband married a second wife and they got pregnant with a DD ... that that named Alice. Allegedly it was the new wife’s favorite name and she always wanted to name a daughter Alice. And the husband went along with it. I can’t imagine how the first wife, grieved mother of the original little Alice felt

Ugh. Naming her after the first child might have been nice, but to name the same name is a bit much.

Once I was in a cemetary in Boston and saw a family gravesite from the late 1600s or early 1700s that had multiple kids who died in infancy, all named Elizabeth. Seriously, they kept having baby girls and naming them Elizabeth and they kept dying. At least three of them. They finally had a girl who lived past infancy and she was not named Elizabeth. I like to think they bought a clue after the third child died. But I've no idea what colonial naming traditions were like. It was pretty striking to read though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My friend used to work L&D in an urban hospital. She assisted with the delivery of twins Da'Queen and Da'King.

Hopefully they do not think that mother is their personal servant

She’s Da’Butler.

Thank you for the laugh

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My friend used to work L&D in an urban hospital. She assisted with the delivery of twins Da'Queen and Da'King.

Yep. This entire subject has been based over the decades on racial stereotypes. I knew it would go there. Have you not learned anything pp? Take the racist crap and shove it.

Not racist or stereotypical when it's true. You have never worked in an urban school or urban hospital, I guarantee it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend used to work L&D in an urban hospital. She assisted with the delivery of twins Da'Queen and Da'King.

Yep. This entire subject has been based over the decades on racial stereotypes. I knew it would go there. Have you not learned anything pp? Take the racist crap and shove it.

Not racist or stereotypical when it's true. You have never worked in an urban school or urban hospital, I guarantee it.

NP. Let me guess: You also know a mom who named her daughter Le-a, pronounced Ladasha, because "the dash don't be silent."

[Anonymous]

Not a twin, but I went to college with Timothy Kim. I lost my composure when I learned his middle name is James.

Tim Jim Kim

Poor guy. Super nice though and he had a sense of humor about it.

[Anonymous]

Sailor and Marina

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a twin, but I went to college with Timothy Kim. I lost my composure when I learned his middle name is James.

Tim Jim Kim

Poor guy. Super nice though and he had a sense of humor about it.

Lol

[Anonymous]

I know a Charity and Chastity set of twins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a twin, but I went to college with Timothy Kim. I lost my composure when I learned his middle name is James.

Tim Jim Kim

Poor guy. Super nice though and he had a sense of humor about it.

You sound like an idiot.

[Anonymous]

No, it's really funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bambi and Fawn ugh

Did they end up as strippers?

[Anonymous]

Tom and Jerry. The older siblings got to choose the names