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Isadora

WDYT? I saw it on a book today and really liked it.

If I ever used it, I would like to have a sib set -- Isolde and Isadora.

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Exactly because it is no easy task itself, complications can occurr. And names are part of them. Of course, they shouldn't define us (although parents already would like that, giving us a name because it "sounds fierce" or "sounds sweet" and so forth) and they're trivial compared to more complex life experiences, but if you think about it, our name is one of the first things that people start repeating to us since we come to the world.

A name also always vehicles meaning, not for the name meaning itself, but in the way parents use it, and it sometimes helps coaxing the siblings' personalities. Ever noticed how sibsets (especially of two) tend to grow to be opposites in various aspects of life? For instance, the eldest in not so good in school and the other one excels academically? What they're doing there is they're "polarizing" (as in "spreading out to the extremes of a continuum") because of the constant (subtle and oblivious) comparison to one other (coming from themselves or the social environment). Names that are similar to each other offer a common ground for comparison.

Not to mention, they're downright confusing to twins in their early years, and that's where most of the research is based and has proven results.

Sorry if this reply was too long!