I have two cousins with the same name. Same side of the family, too. When we were kids it was always "big david" and "little david". It's just what we were used to.
In DH's family, there's a Simeon and his name is shortened to Sim. We get crap for having a Samuel that we call Sam... But there's nearly 6 years difference in age and our name was picked even before the older boy was born. It seems that no matter what you do with names, someone will be unhappy.
We named our 3rd son J ack we new that DH cousin also has a son with the same name, but they live in QLD we are in VIC, I have been with DH for 9 years and haven't met them once. The only person it probably would have bothered was Dh Nan as she now has 2 great grandsons with the same name, but she had passed away. So we decided to go with it, I think if we lived closer and had more frequent contact then it would have deterred me more. But wth it being my 3rd boy I was starting to struggle for names that we both agreed on and liked.
One of the top runner names for this baby is A b i g a i l. My sisters daughter is G a b r i e l l a. DH isn't as keen on A b i g a i l any more coz if you shorten it, it'll be A b b y and G a b b y...
Another front runner is E l i z a b e t h and I was nearly put off coz a friend of our friend, who we do see and is on my facebook had her daughter about 3 months ago and named her that...
In your case, I think it's kinda flattering, and I much prefer your name xx
We had a boy's name chosen well before DH was born (we didn't know the sex). It had been a long process cos I was teaching at the time and all the names DH liked were the names of boys I was teaching or had recently taught. At 7 months pg we moved interstate to an area where a cousin of DH's lived who he was close to as a child but hadn't had anything to do with for years. He got in contact with him and it turned out he had a son the same name as what we had chosen - along with the same surname! DH and I discussed it, decided we loved the name too much to change it and reasoned we would only be in the area for 2-3 years so the boys wouldn't be growing up in the same relatively small town. It didn't seem to bother anyone, caused a bit of hilarity when we were spending time together but that was it. The hilarious thing is DH's cousin's wife was due with #2 the same day as DS, the boys were born a few days apart and they named their little boy the only other boy's name we were considering. DS's name is pretty common though. If we had another boy there is no way I would call him the name they chose for #2, even though it would of been top of our list.
I certainly wouldn't do it myself with people we know/spend time with, and I would be pinged off if someone close used the same name or close to the same name especially if it was someone we saw all the time. At least it wasn't exactly the same name, that would of been pretty bad.
And I agree with TT, your daughter has the better name!
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