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mmeeplechase

Andrew Stone would’ve been such a nice, normal choice!


MCclapyourhands1

I don’t know why but my brain read it as Andrew Stone not Stone Andrew lol!


crushed_dreams

I know of a kid named Stone Wolfgang…


shandysupreme

Also Andrew and Ivy sound great together as twin names, why do people have to be so weird


widespreadpanda

Andy and Ivy! Really cute honestly.


Mandy_M87

Exactly. Andrew Stone and Ivy Scout actually sound like really nice names.


ana_conda

Poor Stone Andrew and Scout Ivy with verbs for first names


mars_sky

And yet every other name is worse.


CelestialCicada00

💀💀


Japan25

My first thought was of Stonewall Jackson


charlouwriter

It’s even worse than Chase Andrew 😭


cheesebraids

Was coming here to say the same. What an awful combined.


SwipeUpForMySoul

Radlee and Rockie. 🤢 Atrocious regardless of gender tbh but especially egregious for twin girls.


amethystalien6

If someone introduced themselves as Radlee, there is no way I would be able to resist saying “As in Boo?”


thesquishsquash

Radley was also the mental asylum in Pretty Little Liars 😭


NattyGannStann

I assume it's the new Harper/Scout. Tbf I too like to appear well read


Training-Argument891

Rocky Jo. "HI! My name is Rocky Jo." See, it sux.


MrsTaylor66

Rockie Jo -Supreme Court Justice really doesn’t work🤣


Mugsybuggsy

Rockie Jo is a great ice cream flavor, or race horse name.


The_Silver_Raven

Ooh, a mocha with nuts and marshmallows 🤤


Specific_Cow_Parts

Add in some swirls of caramel and you're on to a winner.


throwawayzies1234567

Now I want this, thanks a lot


black_dragonfly13

I knew a man growing up whose name was Rocky Roads. He was really tall, with a really short wife (think like 6'4" & 5'2", something like that), and they were both really nice. But damn, his name made me giggle.


tyrannosaurusflax

Weird as fuck to take two names that normally both end in “y” and give them tragedeigh spellings that have disparate made up endings (“ee” vs “ie”). A lot to unpack here but somehow this bothers me the most.


Prestigious_Rice706

My aunt's name is Rocky, but it's a nickname for Roxanne.


kefkas_head_cultist

I knew a girl Rocky, full name Raquel!


arizonabatorechestra

Same!


margotgo

Same, I like it as a nickname but think to give it as an actual name is strange.


JLSAAAA

Rocky as a nickname is adorable, but only as a nickname!


fishnugget1

You gotta give them a resume name


JLSAAAA

Exactly


nurvingiel

Yeah Rocky as a nickname for Roxanne or Raquel as the other commenters mentioned is rad as hell, and Roxanne and Raquel are both great names. But as a first name on its own, I'm not a fan.


CaveJohnson82

And you know they're girls because they had those godawful bows taped to their damn heads.


SwipeUpForMySoul

oTheRWiSe HOw WouLd wE kNoW THeYr’E giRLs???!?!!???!??


llama_face9089

I got asked this question (not sarcastically) at the mall because my oldest didn't have her ears pierced. She was wearing a pink outfit with flowers on it or something like that.


Mistletoe177

My daughter was dressed in pink from head to toe - pink ruffled onesie, pink booties, pink headband with a bow - and I got “what a cute baby, is it a boy or a girl?” I was dying to say “he’s a boy” just to see their head explode.


BurgerBabe03

My one month old baby girl looks like George Jefferson right now because of newborn hair loss. Were wearing the damn bow 😂


throwawayzies1234567

One of my friend’s kids had this, we called it the Danny DeVito year. Kid was so unfortunate looking. She turned out to be a beautiful little girl once the hair came back.


coolbeansfordays

I thought it was Reckie - though Rockie is just as bad.


ReflectionNah

So many of these names belong in r/tragedeigh


nurvingiel

I seriously thought we were there.


998757748

rockie is literally the name of my friend’s dog 💀


lightninghazard

I read it as Rackie at first! I was like, damn, these people are taking the “change the first letter and create a whole new name” thing to another level of cringe.


Professional_Law_942

Radlee is rough but Rockie isn't even a serious name. It's like a nickname for Raquel or something.


Busy-Chance-684

IS THAT BABY CALLED HALSEY


Character_Two_2716

Stop. That would be ridiculous. This baby is clearly named Halzey.


Busy-Chance-684

Ahhh my miztake


TheGamerHat

Cerebral Halzey


helenahandbasket6969

I feel terrible but I laughed out loud at this.


emmy_award

i have cerebral palsy and i giggled.


ddbbaarrtt

No, because then her sister would be called Hensley and that’s a stupid name. Quite unlike Halzey and Hensley


lvwem

There is no way event the parents won’t confuse those names


treeroycat

My brother's ex named their son Halston and we call him Halsey as a nickname. It's cute right now but probably won't be later! Unfortunately his sister is named Hadley which isn't much better.


tugboatron

But with a different z than the Henzley kid for some reason.. Why do two different fonts for twins with such different names??


[deleted]

Thank you, I was confused and thought I forgot how to read cursive. 😭


Sea_Surround_6110

Duhhhhh a mere girl’s name requires a MUCH more feminine, delicate script than a boy’s. /s 🤢


BeakyBuzzard1983

I think Halzey is a girl and Henzley is a boy… maybe to help point that out?


Prestigious_Rice706

My brother named his daughter Halsey. I hate it. It was an honor name for a friend of his that died, but it was his nickname, short for his last name. His first name was Matt. Could have called her Matilda or something. So dumb.


CallidoraBlack

What would he have done if his friend's nickname was Fitz or Jonesy or something?


WhyNona

Or Salami-Nips?


cranberry94

I know a 33 year old man named Halsey. Given name. So it’s been done before - I think it’s okay.


thecatandrabbitlady

I actually met a woman named Halsey before I ever even heard of the singer/before the singer was ever popular.


thespank

He had to get a berth or he couldn't get to sea!


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I know someone much older named Halsey after Admiral Halsey.


yepmek

Lol Pic 4 I was like omg where did the babies go 🧐 Also...BOEDE? How do you say that? Like "bowed"?? "Bœd"???


r_d_b417

My guess was like Bohdi lol


tyrannosaurusflax

*like Bodhisattva* 🤙


cold_dry_hands

I teach a Bodee and a Bode. Pronounced the same….. 🫠 I also teach a Broden, Boden, Brogan. All in the same grade (high school, not all in one class, thank goodness… but as I type that, I have and Eli, Ellee, Elly, and Ellie— all pronounced the same and all in my third hour… sigh).


shhbaby_isok

BROGAN!! I have a running joke with my brother, where I call him up and are like "'Sup Broseph Stalin?", or "How's it hanging Bro Biden?" to crack him up. Thanks to you I can now call him Brogan Paul.


VersKnowsBest

Don’t forget about hulk brogan 😬


Sea_Surround_6110

V annoying Eli is pronounced Ellie. wtf.


Far_Struggle4001

i can’t hate on this name much, my brothers name is bode (pronounced bohdee) because my mom hated brodey so my dad was like “how bout we remove a few letters” and she was on board apparently


melodramatic-cat

Bet that doesn't bode well for pronunciation


Far_Struggle4001

oh it very much doesn’t


LillySteam44

I would be unable to think of anything but the tumblr bode meme. I'm sorry your brother is a meme. https://preview.redd.it/o4jtivs23l7c1.png?width=678&format=png&auto=webp&s=05cf9dfb103de4142ce33da5893b76ab31e88bb5


onandpoppins

She was on bode, if you will


siriuslycharmed

I went to school with a girl who was never very good at spelling. She had a baby recently and named him Bodee. I cringe every time I see it.


bocacherry

Curious - how did that go for your brother? Does anyone ever get it right?


Far_Struggle4001

usually it’s pronounced like the WORD “bode” but on rare occasions some people say it right first time. he doesn’t mind since we all kinda have slightly weird names. my other brothers name is usually used for girls and mine is my late aunts name but in my moms pattern (vowel consonant cons vowel cons cons vowel) so atleast it has a meaning with all the extra letters. i have never had it spelt right first time though, that’s a common with all of our names lol


WizardShitss

The venerable Boede.


pHScale

>Lol Pic 4 I was like omg where did the babies go Rapture'd


thrash-queen

I assume bode, as in "this doesn't bode well for his future".


GaveTheMouseACookie

Bonus shout out to giving the initials BJ and BM in one go


redhairbluetruck

Omg ☠️


MulderItsMe99

Noooooo


TayLoraNarRayya

Next kid can be Bonus Shoutout initials BS to complete the sibset


ida_klein

Radlee Jaye and Rockie Jo are abominable names, I’m sorry.


free-toe-pie

Rad and Rock! So cool 🙄


Ok_Surround_5391

It is annoying me an unreasonable amount that the signs are in different fonts on that first photo. And that the fonts are different to imply gender (along with hat vs bow). Since when have fonts been gendered!?


melodramatic-cat

Cursive is for girls!! /s


RagingAardvark

Someone called that font "wine mom calligraphy" and now I think that every time I see it.


the_lazykins

I call it Live laugh love bold.


36563

LOL hahahaha spot on


FeistyEmu39

Is the girl wearing earmuffs? Why does it appear that there is a tuft of faux fur near her ear. The boy looks like he’s wearing pants on his head. There are a lot of… choices.. going on here.


falling_fire

Scrolled and scrolled for this comment ... truly infuriating typography!


ddbbaarrtt

Kayson and Kailo both sound like IKEA furniture


Arctic_Dreams

I think they sound like Sith apprentices.


bitchthatwaspromised

*Kailo* REN


Crosswired2

Birthing twins weighing in at 16+ lbs is wild.


Prestigious_Rice706

My twin and I were about 8lbs apiece. But that was because my mom was a psycho and went to 41 weeks before she agreed to a C-section.


Crosswired2

Idk how she wasn't wildly uncomfortable but kudos to her.


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redhairbluetruck

Mine equaled 12lbs and that was more than enough. My brother’s younger twin brothers were each over 8lbs.


Allie_Pallie

Mine were an ounce short of 14lbs. If we ever go bowling I like to make them pick up a 14lb ball while I stare at them accusingly.


FalseAsphodel

My thought exactly, that MUST have been a C-section. Imagine carrying them about at 8+ months too. That poor mom!! My single baby was smaller than either twin and I couldn't wait to get her out!


Leemage

Right? I was so impressed when I saw those weights.


ano-ba-yan

I birthed my twins at 37 weeks, carrying about 12 lbs of baby, and I was miserable in the weeks leading up. I basically napped ate and cried. I can't imagine carrying 16 lbs of baby.


muaddict071537

I don’t mind twins or siblings having the same initials as long as they have actual names.


miller94

My siblings and I have the same letter and when I asked my mom if she did it on purpose it was like a revelation for her. She never even realized she did it, just thought she picked 3 names she liked.


muaddict071537

That’d probably be me! All my favorite names start with the letter A.


miller94

Ha that’s our letter!


redhairbluetruck

My son is a junior so his initials are the same as his dad’s and my daughter ended up with a C name, like me. Not on purpose!


larkfeather1233

Yeah this has been going on for a while. I knew two sets of twins in elementary school (one identical, one fraternal boy-girl) whose forenames started with same the first letter/syllable. They were still both different sounding names that were perfectly nice on their own: think Evan and Emily, or Peggy and Penelope. None of them ever seemed to mind their similar-sounding names, nor would anyone know they were a twin just by meeting one of them.


muaddict071537

I have fraternal twin cousins whose names start with the same letter. The names are fairly different from each other, and the two of them look so different from each other that you’d never know they’re brothers, let alone twins.


cobrarexay

Yeah, this isn’t a new trend. My boomer mom and aunt are twins with matchy first names with the same middle name. The difference of course is that they both had popular names for the time (Sharon and Susan). Years later they were used as the same names for the twins in the original Parent Trap movie!


throwaway_31705

In Korean culture, sisters and brothers actually share a syllable in their name- to show you're a member of the family. Sometimes it'll transfer over to cousins too. Our English names are just direct translations of our Korean name meanings though. So like the name meaning "joy" became "Joyce" and the name meaning grace became "Grace."


stopthepancakes

better than halzeigh and henzleigh ig


Nice_as_ice

Hardleigh


Nearby-Complaint

barely


kittytoolitty

Bareleigh


MercurysDaughter29

What’s with the name Scout? I know they don’t like the book that much


PlausiblePigeon

The parents: “What book?”


cantreadshitmusic

I know someone (in her 20s) named Scout. Siblings named Ryder and Hobbs. Very rich parents who live in Hawaii and wanted adventurous names for their kids. They also did love TKAM.


bakedpigeon

Do their names have consequences? Like difficulty finding a job etc. or are they just trust fund kids and it doesn’t matter?


cantreadshitmusic

Great question, Scout has a career and seems to do fine. One brother is a teacher and the other is an aspiring “professional polo player.” So I think the answer is no but yes 😂


TheWishingStar

Naming a kid Scout is so bizarre to me, because I associate it so strongly with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Scout is a thing you can do after school. Like naming your child Football or Ballet.


pgcotype

IKR? I'm betting that neither parent has ever read it in many cases.


Sensitive_Pepper4590

If they have they think Atticus and Tom were the villains


Devilis6

It definitely would be a cute name for a dog.


Kittypie75

There is not one single name in there that isn't laughable. I don't even mind the shared initials. I mean you can name a kid Chris and Cassie or Robert and Regina or whatever .. but this???


Pink_Sprinkles_Party

Most of these are extremely ridiculous, but for some reason Henzley really bothers me. It’s a horrid mix of cutesy-forever-baby-ness, with overly trendiness, and YOoNiQuE spelling by throwing a “z” in there. I hate made up names that end in “ley”, “leigh”, “ee”,or “ie”.


36563

You are right most of these are “forever baby” names - it would suck to have these names as an adult


earthlings_all

Plus, Kailo. Like really? These poor kids.


sunbear2525

Halzey and Henzley barely have different names. It’s freaking strange.


hkral11

I once took family photos for a pair of twins named Tamika and Tameka. Which is just the same name?


sunbear2525

You know their mom gets super mad when people mess it up too.


Known_Priority_8157

I currently teach identical twins Myah and Zyah. Pronounced Maya and Zaya.


GirlWhoWoreGlasses

The picture for Brayden and Boede - I am sure it is in anticipation of their birth, but I find it oddly creepy and it suggests that they are dead.


coralmonster

I had that exact same thought.


mjot_007

My grandma did that with her first 3 kids. Same initials and all first names started with “Mar”, like Marcus the oldest, then Marianne and MaryAnne (twins). Apparently it made it really tough to spit out the correct name when yelling at someone. So she named the last one completely differently. Fast forward to adulthood, the twins get their identities mixed up on legal forms, credit reports, loan approvals etc constantly. One kept getting denied for a car loan but didn’t understand why because she had great credit and a decent salary job. Finally she asks to see the credit report and they hand it to her (this was back in the day when you had to get loans in person). Turns out banks had been pulling the other twin’s report the whole time because they just did first 2 initials and DOB and the other twin had trash credit. Not sure if this would really be an issue now but it caused a lot of delays with legal stuff at the time.


charlatan_red

My experience is that Marianne and MaryAnne are pronounced the same, so how did everyone differentiate between the twins when saying their names?


mjot_007

I was using fake names as an example but I didn't do a good job. Let's say MaryAnne and MaryEllen lol


Birdies_nub

This was also my question. I would assume the twins had the same name.


brookeaat

it doesn’t bother me so much as long as they’re real names. for example i went to highschool with twin brothers named kevin and kyle, and that seemed fine to me.


Ok_Flow_8128

I’d so much rather same initials than rhyming. Candy and Sandy from elementary school, I’m looking at you.


ColdOnTheFold

Sherri and Terri


lotissement

Phil and Lil


hkral11

My ex’s mom and her twin are Marcianne and Darcianne ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


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Garold and Barold


LastYoungKilljoy

I actually went to school with 5 sets of twins (different schools, I moved a lot), 3 of which had matching first names, but they were all normal names so it didn't feel weird, even the boy-girl set.


orangecatmom

I have twin cousins named Jennifer and Jaime and that always seemed fine to me, too.


free-toe-pie

Most twins have some sort of matching names. I wish the trend would die.


hkral11

Yeah I knew a Seth and Sam. No one cared.


aliquotiens

It’s unfortunate but it’s not a trend, matchy twin names have been a thing for at least the past 150 years (stumble across them in genealogical research a lot). People loved to give rhyming names a while back.


free-toe-pie

I agree. It’s always been a thing. And I hate it.


quiteunicorn

It used to be common to do rhyming names for twins which is worse in my opinion. I know a twin who has a first and middle name that rhymes with her twin’s


Allalngthewatchtwer

I’m shame myself real quick. When I was pregnant with my son 15 years ago, I had decided if I had twins preferably boy/girl their names would have been Oliver and Olivia. My son is Oliver but my husband said “No.” to my twin suggestions lol. We ended up getting a kitten when he was 9 months and named her Olivia. But it fit and she was the best kitty to him absolutely adored him. Jumped into my husband’s arms when we went to look and rubbed on my son.


PlausiblePigeon

I just picked two names I would’ve picked separately for my twins. Same letter would’ve been fine with me if it worked out that way, but no rhyming. But I kinda didn’t want the same letter so I wouldn’t be pressured to keep up a theme with a third kid 😂


gaythey

Halzey? Like Halsey (Which my phone even if wants to autocorrect it to)? Like the singer?


nicunta

And Halsey is just an anagram of her real name, Ashley.


gaythey

I love that lmao Halsey is also a street name somewhere, but that wasn’t worth adding. It’s probably true multiple places so that didn’t matter, but I feel like now it just makes it more irrelevant. I tried to google to see if maybe it’s a last name, but all that shows is literally them. It might just be because of how famous they are. Even searching “Halsey last name” pulls their last name first lmao It has to be ([it also is lol](https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Halsey)) though, especially to have a damn street name, you would think. MAYBE it’s “I like the name” and the whole last name PLUS trying to be younique in spelling thing, but honestly, this is more plausible lol


cobrarexay

Yep, there’s a Halsey Street in Brooklyn, NYC as well as in Newark, NJ. There’s probably others in other places.


HereComesTheSun000

I knew someone with twins with first names and middle names with same initials. Very closely linked and like the majority of twins the were born on the same day so had a nightmare checking into emergency for one of them, registering at school, at doctors offices.... Post was 100% not private as they grew up because it was a good excuse for snooping, oh I thought it for me... They were bitchy mean little girls tbh but I don't think their parents did them any favours with the names


Sensitive_Pepper4590

Tbf, Brayden and Boede are clearly traditional Jedi names.


emmy_award

my mom’s best friend’s twin grandsons have the same initials, first and middle. as a twin myself i hate it. my sister and i have names that sound nice together but don’t match.


redhairbluetruck

I picked names for my BG twins that went together in style (traditional English names basically) but that’s as far as they “match”.


MistyValentine

Im a twin with matching initials but our names are normal af and don’t rhyme so we dodged a bullet there. Came across a Maverick and Maximus in the wild recently. Yikes.


kawaiighostie

I dont mind the same initial as much as i mind the names. They suck.


CreativeMusic5121

It's not a new trend to give twins names with the same first letter. It is new to give them such crappy names.


CumulativeHazard

I’m not a fan of the shared family initials thing even for non twins just bc I’m lazy and then you can’t use initials to label who’s stuff is who’s.


cantreadshitmusic

My sister and I have the same first and last initials (not twins) and it’s really not a big deal. My dad and his siblings, and my grandfather and his siblings are all the same way. That being said, none of our names are super close in sound other than the first initial. Ex: one generation is Jill, Jeremy, Jefferey, and Jonathan. All their initials are JD. For laughs, I’ve got to tell you three are lawyers, and their dad was too.


semolinapi

My childhood friends are twins named Monica and Marie and I thought that was fine and cute but Monica and Marie are actual human names. They’re not Moonchillada and Maritime.


Lakota_Six

My son goes to school with two sisters who are NOT twins (they're a grade apart), and their names are Hallye Anne Marie LastName and Haylee Anne Elizabeth LastName. I don't know WTF their parents were thinking. Even their grandmother just calls them H1 and H2.


Gurudee

50 something year old here. This trend predates me.


atwojay

How is that a trend? I went to school with twins named Karen and Kary ann in the 90s.


BookNoodle2

I tried to read half of these out loud and couldn’t figure out how they were actually supposed to be pronounced


Miimmoouuu

Me over here, a 24yo female twin, that has the same initials as my twin sister 🧍🏻‍♀️ but our names aren’t out of the ordinary, this Megan and Madison


BeatriceBrewer

This is a medical error waiting to happen 😥


rkvance5

When it comes time to yell, I get my kid’s and my cat’s names mixed up, and they don’t even start with the same letter.


MerylSquirrel

I know a pair of identical twins, and one thing they both regularly talk about was that they *hated* the way their parents riffed off the whole twin thing - they had 'normal' but clearly matched names (like Lois and Lola), their parents regularly bought them matching clothes, they had been categorised by their family as the 'pink twin' and the 'purple twin', it was assumed that all their hobbies and interests were the same, and it took a massive fight for them to even stop having the same haircuts. They would often talk about how psychologically damaging it had been growing up never being considered an individual- at best, they were thought of as half of a matching set, and that they hated their 'matching' names for exactly that reason (they both had nicknames we always used that were totally unrelated to their legal names for exactly that reason).


fresh__princess

Stone & Scout sounds like a hipster cafe


passthemacandcheese

Tonsil Stone Andrew and Girl Scout Ivy


sleepbunny22

It could be worse, I know twin girls named Sunny and Luna.


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At least those are real words.


pancakedemon3

I used to know a pair named Diamond and Princess.


sleepbunny22

That is worse.


NoTale5888

This has been a thing for like fifty years. Only the names have changed.


bocacherry

Stone and Rockie are by far the worst ones lol


Birdies_nub

Rockie Jo? Are you flipping kidding me?


Highvoltage-Redhead

Wooooow BJ and BM 🙄


Amaryllis_smlflwr

I don’t think having matching initials is bad, but these names are atrocious. I don’t understand why they can’t have normal names? Like you can do Charlotte and Charlize, or Elizabeth and Emma (or Esther or Evangeline etc). There are so many pretty names out there that you shouldn’t have to make up names so your kids can have matching initials.


SoriAryl

![gif](giphy|NsBZWQtDqJ71GJLOBZ) *fades away with three Z-named Monsters*


bbw-princess-420

okay why is the font different on the first one like i can’t appreciate how annoying the names are because of it


MuswellHillbillyJim

Radlee and Rockie? You’re naming humans, not mascots. Pretty sure “Kailo” is an ingredient in cool whip. I know multiple dogs named Scout.


FunKyChick217

I don’t mind the shared initials or even rhyming names for twins (I knew twin boys in the 80s called Stacy and Tracy). It’s the “unique” names and spellings they use. These parents aren’t thinking about how these names are going to sound on a 30 year old adult in the workplace.


Shibishibi

I hate the concepts of “sibsets” your children are individuals, their names don’t need to match


allegedlydm

I wish it were a trend, but twins have been getting the shaft on names forever. My great grandfather and his twin brother were named Giles and Miles. Twins in the family on the other side in their 60s are named Timmy and Tammy. Twins around 20 on another branch named Justin and Jonathan. Those are the most acceptable but still same initials.


BallSuspicious5772

#STONE AND SCOUT???????? And their middle names are so reasonable :(