Thanks girls.

Yeah I think the distance is a big plus. I'm more worried about looking like a copycat/ not being able to come up with our own name!

No we don't have any back ups! We decided on it very early and have just stuck with it.

Maybe we will have a little girl and I will heva been worried for nothing?!

Thanks again
I have a friend who had a baby about 2 months after me and named him the same as I named my DS. She didn't tell me until after the baby was born which name they had picked and honestly, I really don't care. I complimented her on her taste in baby names and left it at that . . . I never even considered that she named her baby that because she was copying either.

She felt a bit guilty about it and recently talked to me about it. I told her that honestly finding a boys name is hard and I wouldn't not use a name just because someone else has used it. They will know other people with their name in their lifetime and by the time they are a couple of weeks old, that name belongs to them just as much as to anyone else. It doesn't matter.

I say go ahead and use the name that you have chosen. It is really not that bad having friends with the same baby name as you. Everyone gets used to it quickly and it all just becomes part of life.