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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd never give my children rhyming or versions of the one same name.

Examples from real life include; twins Joey and Zoey, and sisters born eight years apart, Melissa and Melinda.

[b]Grew up with sisters Lisa and Elizabeth (lisa is Italian for Elizabeth). [/b]

And I'd never go the all same first letter name pattern for multiple children. I knew a family - let's call them the Harrisons; mom Hazel, dad Harvey and children were Helen,  Heather and Heidi.  Awful.[/quote]

I was an adult expecting my own child when I realized my grandma named her first two kids Michelle and Michael.  :roll:  I asked her about it and she told me that Mike was the only name she’s ever liked, and my mom came first so she went with the nearest girl name.

TBF, she didn’t have the best sounding board. [i]Her[/i] mother, [b]my great-grandma, named my twin aunts Sharon and Karen[/b]. *shudder*[/quote]

How can you have a great-grandma who was birthing in the age of Karen, ie 1960s? My great-grandma was bearing children in the 1910s and I'm only 35.
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I think you have unusually long generations in your family, pp. I’m 32. Great aunts were born in 1951, when my own grandma was 11 years old. Not strange for a catholic family with six kids to have those ages. I think you misplaced Karen as a sixties name. It’s definitely 1950s. My MIL was born in 1954 and is a Karen too.[/quote]

I'm sure it was out there in the 50s, but it peaked in the mid to late 60s or maybe ca 1970. That's why Karen's a meme now about persnickety middle aged white women, not grandmas  :lol: 
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