Baby names

[destiny121]

Hi ladies.. would you be annoyed if a family member chose a name for their baby that was very similar to yours?

[Franco81]

I don’t think I would be annoyed, it’s quite flattering and reassuring to know others think it’s a nice name.

Plus, I have been trying to conceive for a long time and always had a favourite name. I don’t tell people it as it’s not fair to stop others using it but I would probably still use it even if someone else got there first!

I guess it depends how close you are to them too though!

[Annakarissa]

No I wouldn’t be annoyed - there are much larger things to occupy headspace and I wouldn’t let that be one of them. Be flattered - I think its a compliment.

[Hidden]

No as they might have had that choice for ages plus if it’s only similar I really wouldn’t mind x

[destiny121]

It appears I have seen the wrong side of things.. I just think after all the heartache of wanting a baby for so long you just want the name to be special to you...😊

[Arya10 in reply to destiny121]

Did the family member know what the name you wanted was? I was pretty hurt when a close friend, who knew we’d been TTC for years, used the exact name I had wanted for a girl. The friend fell pregnant straight away during my fertility struggles and knew the name I wanted as we’d discussed names before she had even decided she wanted kids. I was a bit annoyed at first, but then I thought stuff it I’ll still use it if I ever have a girl (I’m now having a boy 2 years on from this).

Don’t let it stop you, your baby (and their name) will be so special to you no matter what x

[destiny121 in reply to Arya10]

Hi my love... I’ve had my baby already and he is almost 8 months old and they e just had their baby and want a name very similar to mine...

[Arya10 in reply to destiny121]

Ah ok, well then that’s just plain weird, and you should feel sorry for them that they can’t think of anything original for their little one 😂. Sort of flattering?

[Tugsgirl in reply to destiny121]

I agree with you xx

[Sayusayme]

Your baby your authority

No one has right to name it other than you.

If u feel uncomfortable take a different name....baby is yours do what u like but don't compromise for others😘😘

[MissEd]

If its not the same just similar i dont really see the issue

[MummyMel]

Call me petty but YES!!! I kept my name secret for so long, two weeks before I was due I was too excited and let it slip, they stole the first name AND the middle name. So my daughters cousin, has another cousin with the same name. I hyphenated the two into one first name but not originally what I wanted. I think its perfectly okay to be annoyed. I no longer speak to the person who stole it haha, but the name is not the only reason. X

[YunaMom]

Nah I wouldn't care. Although if u don't particular like that particular family member, then whatever she does will be an eyesore.

I don't like my sis-in law whom I choose for me and my husband not to see or interact. Even hearing her name gives me the creeps. If someone like that took my baby's name I would think it's weird but in the end, I really don't care about sharing same names.

[avaceleste]

The same? Yes. Similar? No. You know what you wanna name your baby and I hate how family behaves like you cant. I wanted to name my baby Lorraine and my mom insisted that I didn't because she hated someone named Lorraine in high school. Then i liked the name Layla and my half sister said i couldn't name her that since her sister (not my sister, related on the other side) had named her child Layla. I just wish family would relax and let it go!

[Tugsgirl]

Happened to me. I was truly pee’d off! 😡 We decided to name our Daughter Mary-Elizabeth Evalyn. My late grandmother was named Mary Elizabeth and being so close to her I promised myself when I was 19 (when she died) that if I ever had a little girl that she’d be named after my Nan. I’d mentioned it on Facebook. Friends and family knew I’d always had my heart set on it. Then I was browsing Facebook and noticed Hubby’s 19 year old niece had decided to name her Daughter Penelope Mary Elizabeth. She was 4 weeks in gestation behind me. After everything we’d been through, the ivf, the miscarriages, it felt like she was trying to take something away from us! I blocked her straight away. I was absolutely fuming. Her baby was born just two weeks after mine in the end so it meant that my father in law, in the space of two weeks, became a grandfather to our Daughter Mary-Elizabeth Evalyn and a great grandfather to her baby Penelope Mary Elizabeth. Both babies having the same surname. I almost vented on here, but thought people may think I was being petty. I just don’t know why she had to do it 😥 xx