Last night we went to see my cousins gorgeous new twins and we're in shock. They have named them Felix and Fearne. Fern has been our name almost right from the start of this pregnancy but we didnt tell anyone in rl. My cousin and I are very close both geographically and emotionally so it really is off the table for us. I lightly told him he'd pinched our girl's name and he was really apologetic bless him. No one's fault but I'm gutted especially as the whole family have said what a beautiful name it is . Mn will be Angelica which we cannot use as a first name. Our dd is Nancy surname J. Please any suggestions of what we may like? We're both stumped
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ChocolateCakeandTeaPlease ·
02/12/2017 07:10
We had something similar happen to us - chose our boys name when we first got together and ten years later (we hadn't managed to get pregnant yet) my husband's brother used it for his son. We were gutted and even though the little one is now 4 I still struggle a bit saying his name. In my eyes he doesn't suit it because it should have been MY son's name! 
Still, we found another name we loved even more in the end when our own DC was born.
Loads of lovely suggestions above. Nancy and Violet is a lovely combo!
ChocolateCakeandTeaPlease ·
02/12/2017 07:10
We had something similar happen to us - chose our boys name when we first got together and ten years later (we hadn't managed to get pregnant yet) my husband's brother used it for his son. We were gutted and even though the little one is now 4 I still struggle a bit saying his name. In my eyes he doesn't suit it because it should have been MY son's name! Still, we found another name we loved even more in the end when our own DC was born.
Loads of lovely suggestions above. Nancy and Violet is a lovely combo!
hesterton ·
02/12/2017 07:26
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venellopevonschweetz ·
02/12/2017 07:47
Same thing happened to my mum, my auntie (accidentally) pinched my name for one of my twin cousins!!
My mum chose something else right up to me being born but she just couldn't do it so I ended up with the original same name as my cousin but with what was supposed to be my middle name added with a hyphen.
All of my maternal family refer to me by my double barrel first name and its always been fine 
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