24 Sets of Twins in one Grade

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This came from an article on Yahoo.

Basically, there are 24 sets twins in one fifth grade in Wilmette, Il. Here are their names:

*They only listed 20 sets. Weird.

Kiran & Chiara (f, f)
Summer & Sydney (f, f)
Finja & Alina (f, f)
Chloe & Luke (f, m)
Emma & Katie (f, f)
Margaret & Eleanor (f, f)
Zach & Mira (m, f)
Gracie & Julia (f, f)
Katie & Megan (f, f)
Amy & Rachel (f, f)
Evan & Olivia (m, f)
Julia & Alexander (f, m)
Jamie & O'Ryan (f, m)
Tommy & Katherine (m, f)
Lyla & Tessa (f, f)
Ryan & Luke (m, m)
Kristin & Henry (f, m)
Luke, Sam (m, m)
Maeve & Aidan (f, m)
Mady & Mery (f, f)

Names making repeat appearances: Luke (3x), Katherine/Katie (3x), Julia (2x)

My thoughts:
-O'Ryan: A creative spelling of Orion or a surname?
-Zach & Mira: All I can think about is Zach & Miri...
-I wonder if the Katies, Sams, and Tommys of the group went by their nicknames. It bugs me when people give their kids nicknames as names. But that's just me.

WDYT?

discuss.

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http://www.livescience.com/37196-politics-baby-names.html

I'm not making sense of it, personally.

I feel like the fussiest baby namer in the world!

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Future-baby may be here sooner than I initially thought (think: in the next two years) which I'm really happy about but I'm so super-fussy about names. I have a list, then I hate it an throw it away and start over!

Anyway, I'm from a huge family (my mom has 40 cousins!) and I don't want to 'steal' any names from anyone else. I'm also a teacher and seem to therefore have conotations associated with just about every name. I like classic names, traditional ones I can imagine my mom and nan saying without thinking... 'what?!'

Here's what I have so far. I really like the boy's name George but my partner doesn't ("it's too old-fashioned") but it's also taken by a friend of mine. His favorite name is Joshua (but I have bad associations of that name.) For girls, I don't have anything I really like but Selena is super-traditional in my family and used for generations. I like it OK, and could use it if I was desperate.

Any ideas or suggestions of where to start?

sibset with a new to me name

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After church on Sunday, a bunch of kids/young adults were playing pick-up hockey in the parking lot, and I was watching and chatting. Three brothers: Aidan, Ronan and Cashel. Ronan looked about nine, Cashel about four; Aidan was only mentioned as an older brother, so I have no idea how old he is. I can't be sure about spelling as I only heard them spoken.

Cashel was completely new to me and when I Googled it I first guessed the spelling was "Cassiel". But given how Irish the other two names are, I'm pretty sure it's meant to be Cashel.

I thought it was kind of an interesting progression, going from the super popular, and at this point arguably oversaturated Aidan, to the upwardly trending but still not too common Ronan, to the extremely unusual (at least for now) Cashel.

WDYT?