"Stolen" Baby Names

[Tiff+2]

I didnt hear hughsey & kate, but my sister's XH got remarried and called his son what he & my sister were going to call my niece if she was a boy! What the?!

WOW that is really wrong!!! I just can't believe anybody would do that!

[nickers]

i could never do that to anyone i dont know how so many people do. and if a friend named their child the name the KNEW we were going to pick i would be saying WHAT THE to them, confront them straight up

[paradise lost]

Both DP and I have pretty common names. There were 2 rebecca's in my year in every school i went to and when i was at Uni there were FOUR rebecca's in my corridor in Halls, so i wouldn't consider a name out of bounds just because someone i knew had used it. DD's name was picked from books (though not the same books, it came from books both XP and I liked!) and isn't all that common but i'd be very flattered if someone "stole" it because let's face it, if your friend has a horrible brat that you can't stand the sight of or you know a person with a kid with the name you like and you can't stand the parent at all, you're not likely to use that name are you! There are lots of names all of us will automatically dislike because we associate it with something or someone we don't like in our heads. From that POV i actually think it's quite sweet when a child is named after (or before) someone.

DD's name meant a lot to us, everyone and their dog could have called their kid that and we'd still have gone ahead, because we had our reasons. It's too tempting to get sucked into trying to find a name no other kid you know has! My nephew's parents made up (as in invented) his name and he can't WAIT to change it by deed poll. There was a kid in America recently had her name changed because her parents, anxious to give her an "original" name, called her Tallulah Does The Hula In Hawaii. I'm not kidding!

I have always loved the name Olivia and it's one of the names DP and i have in the backs of our minds for when we have a kidlet or two. My good friend had her baby last year and called her Olivia. She knew i really liked it, but she had her baby first! LOL. TBH i really love her little Olivia and if i had another girl and she looked like an Olivia i'd call her that. I know my friend would be very flattered to know i'd named my girl after hers.

Bx

[nic]

I don't think it would worry me that much, but it does my DH. He told a friend of his a few years ago about a boys name that he loved, and then the friend and wife had a son, and called him the same name that DH wanted.. He still isn't over it lol, and it was about 6 years ago now!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Bec, I know a girl about your DD's age with the same name! She's so gorgeous though. DH vetoed that name, which is a shame, but he has NO taste in names LMAO - he rejected some gorgeous ones.

This is why we didn't discuss names with anyone. Even though DS is named after a brewery LOL (cheers Google). But I just didn't want to think his name had been "stolen" when in fact I don't own the name nor have I patented it.

If DH re-married and had a girl and used the name we had spent months picking... no big. He really didn't like that many names, there were others I like too. Even if he used the middle names, which are for my family! I can still use the middle names if I wanted and go back to my original girl name list and pick a better name.

I am avoiding a name that's nice that my best friend wants to use at some point... but that's not just because she's my best friend, it's also because it's not in my top 1000 list. Nice name, just not for me IYKWIM.

[Visitor8]

I think its stupid. Names are almost always from somewhere else. You can't steal someone elses name. You would have stolen it from someone else before you if that was the case (most of the time)...
Mel careful cos I am gonna call my next boy Aricyn...

[Mumma2three]

Yes my friend knew my name, I had it for 8 years and then she named her baby something different and then CHANGED it a few weeks later, to the name I had told her in confidence. Luckily I don't see her anymore (I just dont need friends like that) so Im using it for the next bub anyway!! But she did it purely because it was my choice, she was alwa;ys like that, and used to try to take the guys I liked, because i liked them...

[Arimeh]

Mel careful cos I am gonna call my next boy Aricyn...

lol.. I only just saw this.... steal away babe..... I don't care if there are 10 of them out there - I've never come across another one yet

[LucaJack'sMum]

YEEEESSSSS..... it is VERY Common! have experienced it ourselves with this bubby due soon, have had 2 names pinched from under our noses!!!!!