When do twins know their own names?
I've read that babies generally recognize and respond to their own name at around 5 months of age. How is this different for twins (particularly identical)? Being as they often (almost always!) hear their names mentioned together, when can they recognize which is their own name and which is their twin's...? Will they respond to both names? If so, for how long?
(My twins are nearly a year old, and I still can't tell if they know their own names or just respond to both. I was curious if there is any official data available.)
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TL;DR: No different from single children.
There ought to be ample opportunity to address twins individually. They don't (always) do their misdeeds in sync - sometimes only one of them does it, or at least one does it first and the other one follows. Also when you're feeding them, or changing them, or doing any number of similar things - you will inevitably deal with just one of them at a given instant.
These instants are certainly enough for each of them to hear their own name without the other one, so I am sure that the self-identification works just as well with twins, if not even better.
Sidenote:
I'm a twin myself, and obviously I don't have any accurate recollection of my earliest childhood. I know my own name but I still pay attention when somebody addresses my clone. It might be a habit borne from the fact that often people mixed us up.
I dont know from which month it might have started, but my twins who are aged 2 know their names which sounds very similar. I believe they started to respond to names correctly sometime in last 6 months
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