They stole 'our' name!

[ladybird11]

I hear what you're saying! This is a touchy subject for me too lol! Not that anyone has taken our name for DS as yet. (They better not as I've just ordered stickers and iron labels with his name on them lol)!

But I loved so many names, to be told by family / friends etc that "oh, that's so and so's son's name" - e.g. my brothers boss' son, or a colleague from works son etc - none of which we socialise with either by the way! But we still felt odd using those certain names - so we chose another. I'm not sure but I think it's because I like being unique - rather than just copying...

I think whatever feels comfortable for you - but yeah, I'd give them a heads up that you love the name and have planned to use that name for ages

[widdly]

How annoying for you!

When we had just started trying for our bub we were planing on giving our son my maiden name as a first name, but my Uncle used the name for his son 16 months before our DS was born, so we thought of another name and used my maiden name as the middle name instead,

Last year our good friends had their second boy, they admited to us after he was born that they were planning on stealing our girls name if he was a girl. I wasn't ofended though, the way i see it first in best dressed.

If you still love the name you should use it any way, however I wouldnt use it, cause it would be annoying having kids with the same name, maybe you could use the name as sa middle name instead

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I'd be saying "love the name - we've picked that for a boy too! Great minds and all that" too. If you rarely see them it's not an issue. Both me and a girl from my TTC group announced our pregnancies at the same time, we gave our sons the same two first names! Without consulting each other or knowing. She just has fab taste.

[Curly]

I'd be saying "love the name - we've picked that for a boy too! Great minds and all that" too. If you rarely see them it's not an issue.

Exactly! You love the name, use it. And give them the heads up so you don't feel like they think you are copying...speak up asap.

My stepbrother and his wife named gave their DD the same name as our DD...they are only 3 months apart. We'd both come up with the name completely independently and we never see them...we don't really care. If their DD had been born first I don't think we would have changed our minds because we'd been set on the name for years...DS was going to be named this if he had been a girl.

It probably makes life a bit confusing for my Mum and stepdad though!

[~Trish~]

Curly - My stepbrother and his wife named their DS2 the same name as our DS1! They always liked the name so they chose to name him that even though we'd named our DS first. We don't mind, like you we rarely ever see them. It does get confusing when my mum and stepdad are talking about one of them though LOL!

[Karina]

Just use the name. No one owns the name. If you love it and it was what you were going to name bub, then just go ahead and use the name!

[Reborn]

It shouldnt be a problem. Could you maybe change the spelling??

My SIL was pg and picked Jack for a boys name even though we already had Jack our ds. She called me up and asked if it would be weird and I didnt mind. The way I figure it everyone makes their own name. And at least the last names will be different. (BTW SIL had a girl. So in the end there wasnt a problem anyway.)