A friend of ours was pregnant about 8 weeks before we were, she actually said to us that if we had a favourite name we should tell her so that she would not name her baby that. Her reasoning was that she'd already had 2 girls, she'd used her fave names and was working on a list for the third, if it was a girl.
DH and I said we'd think about it but never gave her our prefs - we just thought if she chooses one we like, we'll get over it.
They ended up having a boy so its not a problem...
I think it depends too on how much you think you'll see the child with the stolen name. If its infrequent, who cares? But if they are a close friend, it might be a bit weird - IMO anyway!
I agree that generally we all nick our names from somewhere. I think the only time it might irk me is if it was someone I would be seeing a LOT. For example, there's a name my little sis has always LOVED for a girl, and I definitely wouldn't call my little girl that, because it's a really unusual name - the name-pinching would be obvious, and I know it would hurt my sis - if I really really liked it, I would at least test the waters, hoping she didn't like the name anymore.
Really though, there are SO many names in the world, it wouldn't be too hard to find a different name would it? But like LoriRae, I don't really share name suggestions before bub is born too, so at least then if someone picks the same name, I won't have hard feelings.
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