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[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

i recently met identical twins, eva and eve. eva pronounces her name like eh-va. it's a little matchy for me, but upon knowing them, it suits them. they're extremely similar-- they're even college roommates! they were born circa 1991.

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[frost.livejournal.com]

Those are entirely too matchy for my tastes. :/

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

it's a little matchy? it's the same name in two languages...

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

Those are way too matchy. Werid. And kids born in the 90s are in college now?! Oy.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

*weird.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

And kids born in the 90s are in college now?!

that's what I was thinking! how did that happen?

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

kids born in the 90s are in college now?!
lol, guilty! it freaks me out more that kids born after 2000 are and have been school-age...

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

It may suit them now, which is great, but the parents couldn't have known that when they were naming them! I can never understand when parents give their children essentially the same name.

[tailea.livejournal.com]

I used to know a set of twins named Maria and Maria. The only difference was their middle names (I believe they were Francisco and Jose but I was in 4th grade at the time so I don't remember). I think Eva and Eve are nearly as bad.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

In Italy for example it's not uncommon -although that tendency has definitely been fading in the past couple of decades- to use Maria + other name, and essentially you get called the other name. For example, if you're Maria Grazia, you'd be called Grazie more often than Maria, etc.

But what freaks me is that those Maria x 2 twins had MALE middle names..

[hwar.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were named after nuns. ;)

[meeksnmeebs.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking. My great-grandma was Mary Francis and went by Mary. My grandma (her daughter) is Mary Elizabeth and goes by Libby and has pretty much her whole life. I'm actually somewhat surprised my great-aunt isn't Mary Catherine, but just Catherine.

As for Eve and Eva... nms, but if it works for them...

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

oh i love the nickname libby. i forgot about that one!

[chocklit-frog.livejournal.com]

Nahhhh that's a totally common name even for males - like Rainer Maria Rilke, granted, it's his middle name...

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Yeah in Italy as well they sometimes give Maria as a middle name to boys, but I thought the twins discussed here were female..?
Maria Francisco and Maria Jose sound ambiguous to say the least.