Would you do this?

[Astrolady]

I wouldn't intentionally do it myself, but I have had it done to me. My cousin called their son Lachlan James, when they already knew we had a Lachlan James.

[Mrs P]

Ok the names with a space inserted are (drum roll, ha ha)...

L iana (our DD)

and

D iahna (pronouced to rhyme exactly with DD's name).


Astrolady - did that annoy you?
TT - yeah I know, it really isn't such a big deal, especially as they won't see each other much. I think I just need to get over my surprise I guess!!

[tellytubby]

Well you can sleep peacefully knowing your daughter has the nicer name hehehe

As much as I say no.. Deep down it may annoy me a little.

My son's name is T h e o, and a friend of ours (who we see easily twice a week) has told me that T h e o is at the top of their name list too (little boy due next week).

If they do, I'll be joining you on this vent. Come on, its the same name, and we see each other quite a bit!

[Party-of-five]

I personaly wouldn't do it but my brother named his DS the same name as our cousin named her DS

[~MummaBear~]

we had Picked our boys name ( X avier) out the week that we found out he was a boy (20 weeks Pregnant) we were happy with it and had told the kids and my mum and a handful of other people and then my cousin had a little boy 2 months later and called him (X avier) we thought about it for a while but it seemed wrong for us to change his name so we kept it the same..
I dont see her very often i have never even met her kiddies so its not like there would be 2 of them in the same room
just a bit of a view from the "other" side of the fence!!

[Cranky Kitten]

I'd be flattered more than anything. It says to me she liked your DD's name but didn't want to *exactly* copy it so she changed it slightly to avoid this. The kids aren't likely to notice even if they do see each other a fair bit. Or if they do, will likely just think it's funny not be upset about it.

In my family we have cousins named David Jonathon and Jonathan David. Neither of them are particularly worried about it.

[RainbowBrite]

I do know how you are feeling.
My first dd is H ayley (16) and my sister named her son B ayley (13)...I was a little put out at first that she couldn't think of something a little more original...but now I think nothing of it.

[melbel]

It may not have been intentional, maybe they had the names picked out already and it just a coincidence at the end of the day. i know hoe frustrating it was for me over so many years of TTC to have both my boy's name and girl's name snaffled by other family members who got pregnant first......in the end after I had spent ages picking new names I could love I said stuff it, anyone else uses them too bad....I am having it too if it happens! LOL!