Personally I find it weird. This happened to me as well. I don't even consider the friend to be particularly close but she kept harping on about how they wanted to call their baby the same name as our daughter who was born 13 months before their baby's due date. And it wasn't as if our daughter has one of the top 10 popular names either. Anyway they ended up having a boy which was good because everytime my friend mentioned it, I didn't quite know what to say... At least your friends asked - mine TOLD me that was what they were going to do. I wouldn't have minded if she said that it was the name she had always wanted to call her daughter - not a problem - but it was very odd in the circumstances.