It's funny how protective we become over names. I'm sure it's just us ladies, as I know when I told DH my cousins baby name, he said it was really sweet name. But he did remember I loved it. I once asked him if had names he thought he might one day name his children, but he looked at me like I'd asked him how to solve world peace!!!
I'm lucky my sister and brother are a lot younger to be worrying about kids right now, and my besties (they are sisters) we all agreed to allow and swap names.
But I guess sharing on BB is all good!!!
I never tell names & this ones names are a secret. The names we like are different to what my sister & brother like, so no issues there. We did have some boys names on our list when pg with DD and they have since been used by friends (they didn't know our names) or new friends we've made, their children are those names. I would be upset if someone I saw regularly used a name that I had shared, unless they said at the same time that they liked it too. I'd probably then find another backup name in case. It is really hard b/c you are going to meet someone along the way in your life that may stay in your life that has named their kids the same.... I guess that is a little different. I would have been annoyed at your cousin, especially when she said she didn't like any of them, why not just be honest and say it is on their list too?
I don't think people can own names and therefore people can't steal them either. If anybody used my daughter's names, I would think they had great taste
So far nobody I know has done so but there is still plently of time in their lives lol. If somebody had used a name I had wanted to before me, I would have just used it myself also... I don't really see the big deal in sharing names, there are a few reasons where I think it would be insensitive or inappropriate such as RB's case but in general I don't have issue with it.
have people used/stolen your baby names?
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