# How close in age are you to your nearest sibling?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 8, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115 "2016-11-08T23:52:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/1 "2016-11-08T23:52:00Z")
I’ll start.
I’m 1 year, 2 months and 5 days younger than my brother.
Any one closer?
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### Author:  [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/2 "2016-11-09T00:03:14Z")
1 year, 1 month and 6 days older than my closest in age brother. That is 1 year and 36 days. (Months do not have the same number of days as we all know.)
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### Author:  [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/3 "2016-11-09T00:04:45Z")
Four years, six months, 15 days older.
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/4 "2016-11-09T00:15:51Z")
3 years, 2 months and 6 days older than my closest sister.
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### Author:  [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/5 "2016-11-09T00:39:24Z")
I’m the oldest of four, if you don’t count my step-sister (Which I don’t, because we didn’t grow up together; she was already eighteen when my step-dad met my mom… and, also, I hate her). I’m fifteen months older than my closest sibling.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/6 "2016-11-09T00:45:43Z")
A little short of eight years and I’m the youngest of three.
Oooops! v:p
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/7 "2016-11-09T00:48:00Z")
Two years. Our birthdays are two days apart, as is my wife and her sister.
Odd thread idea, anything interesting happen to make you think of it?
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/8 "2016-11-09T00:53:01Z")
15 1/2 months - shoulda been 18 months, but she decided to be really early…
The only thing close about us is our age. We are sooooooo different, were we not related, I’d have never even talked with her.
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### Author:  [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/9 "2016-11-09T00:58:43Z")
5 years and 5 days.
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### Author:  [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/10 "2016-11-09T01:14:53Z")
23 years older than my half-sister.
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### Author:  [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/11 "2016-11-09T01:16:32Z")
1 year and 1 day older than my closest sibling.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/12 "2016-11-09T01:21:33Z")
14 months older.
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### Author:  [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/13 "2016-11-09T02:19:44Z")
356 days. We’re Irish twins.
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### Author:  [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/14 "2016-11-09T02:22:58Z")
1 year, 1 month, and 12 days.
My mother told me I wasn’t planned. I told her I rather figured that.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/15 "2016-11-09T02:24:42Z")
1 year, 20 days. My 2 sisters are 257 days apart.
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### Author:  [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/16 "2016-11-09T02:42:28Z")
> [@digs](#):
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> Two years. Our birthdays are two days apart, as is my wife and her sister.
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> Odd thread idea, anything interesting happen to make you think of it?
lol…maybe **Mangosteen** is the new **Hbk4894**??
I kid people, sometimes the op just begs for a jest.
FTR my younger sister is one year and 36 or 27 days younger than me, depending on Leap Year.
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/17 "2016-11-09T02:43:00Z")
I’m the oldest of four. My sister came along twelve days before my second birthday.
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/18 "2016-11-09T02:46:10Z")
Six years younger than only sibling. I ate my twin sibling in utero.
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### Author:  [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/19 "2016-11-09T02:49:04Z")
11.5 months
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### Author:  [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/20 "2016-11-09T04:18:52Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#):
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> 356 days. We’re Irish twins.
I first heard this as Catholic twins, from John Leguizamo about his first two, saying he was fooled by the “she can’t get pregnant while breastfeeding” myth (mentioned in the 19 babies thread).
All the Browns share this - we’re all 9-11 months apart, with my sisters closest (one born in September and the next in June). Our mother was from a family with 12 kids (two lost as kids), and disliked how spread out they all were (35 years between oldest and youngest). Her goal was as close as possible, so people say she seemed to have one 5-year pregnancy (the oldest died in his first year, while I was still a baby).
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