# Frightening names for twins. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327 "2004-06-14T18:27:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327/61 "2004-06-15T19:24:49Z")
Not frightening, per se, but an interesting coincidence. My father’s first and middle names are Russell and James. One of my best friends is named Russell. He has a twin brother named James. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327/62 "2004-06-15T19:38:27Z")
> [@HardlyHuman](#): > > Columba and Jemima > Both names mean “dove”, but Columba is Latin and Jemima is Hebrew. So, if Columba had kids, her sister would be _Aunt Jemima_? Oh, my. Actually, I don’t find the names in the OP all that bad, really. They’re just very old-fashioned, and you kind of have to expect old-fashioned when you’re dealing with people in their seventies. They were both relatively common names in the early part of the century. My mother’s stillborn little sister was named Verna, and that was in the late fifties. (Of course, my grandmother’s name is Melba Jean, and on the other side of the family I have a grandmother named Famie, a great-aunt named Verble, another great-aunt named Omie, and a cousin named Gradaphene (grade-uh-feen) Irene (she’s named after her grandmothers). So maybe Verna and Viola only sounds decent by comparison.) ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327/63 "2004-06-15T20:01:54Z")
Just looking through the family tree book - we have : May and Mac Francis and Gertrude Albert and Jimmy Ola and Lola Billie and Jackie Jerry and Terry Loretta and Linda Wayne and Wanda Brooke and Becca Nathaniel and Natalie Ashley and Amber ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327/64 "2004-06-15T20:28:55Z")
I used to live across the stree from identical triplets: Mindy, Misty and Mandy they had a younger sister named Brandy. They were not the nicest family on the block. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327/65 "2004-06-15T20:29:11Z")
Mary Margaret and Margaret Mary ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327/66 "2004-06-15T20:38:47Z")
Although we’re not twins, my sister and I qualify for the “What were their parents thinking”, catagory. I’m Paul and she’s Paula. The two younger were spared sharing our fate. The original plan was to name them Paulette and Pauline, but, evidently, one of my parents came to their senses before it was too late. When I was in jr. high school there was a coffee shop near my neighborhood. It was called the Char-Mar Steak House, named after the twins, Charleen and Marleen. They were in their mid twenties and I spent a lot of my hard earned paper route money drinking cokes at the counter watching them work because they were two of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frightening-names-for-twins/250327.md?page=3)