To be angry over a name

Renee and Leanne? You missed a trick OP you could have called her Eneenne. That’s truly unique. Possibly.

Depends. Are you contrary, or do people either love you or hate you ...

I'll get me coat.

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I was about to say OP's name is exactly like that!
Weird of them. It isn't a name, it's a portmanteau.
Unless they have double-barrelled it as
Wren-Lee

Nowt strange as folk.
Renlea is also an app for reading and learning.

My mate has a dog called Renly

Both of my grandmothers were Mary. Does that make me MaryMary or MarMar?

My new name is Viobeth or Elizalet

My DC are Leggy or Pucy

Katniss and Peeta are The Hunger Games.

Good point, thanks!

Both those series were so equally bad - and equally omnipresent for a good few years each - that it's sometimes easy to confuse the two.

Whilst at a push Twilight takes the biscuit for the most dire, it has to be said Suzanne Collins' character-naming capacity is more than usually dreadful. Clove and Cinna - did she just stand in front of a spice rack and jot down the first names that jumped out at her?

Well I think that is really weird that they’ve copied that particular name, being in the same friendship circle, and I’ve have to say something… “Oh, what inspired that name for you? Our grandmothers were called Renee and Leanne” 😂

I sort of know what you mean.

My name was v uncommon when I was growing up (slightly more used now - not very but you wouldn’t now think of it as a “foreign” name now, whereas you would at the time)

Someone my Mum knew called her Dd the same, and she was in my class at primary and secondary school. Plus they had the same second initial. Quite annoying to be one of two in the class when you name is actually really unusual!

No one else in either school called it.

Katniss and Peeta are The Hunger Games

Your wee girl has a name with a special meaning and theirs doesn't.

I know an elderly Ismay, whose name was a combination of her two grandmothers. I've always liked Ismay, and I like Renlea too.

I suggested to DS and DIL that if they have a son they could name him a combination of my name and DIL's mother's name - Harriet and Alison = Harrison. They just sighed and rolled their eyes.

Twilight has some really unfortunate portmanteaued names, especially Katniss and Peeta, who shit out whichever way you cut it. Katpee or Peeniss? Suzanne Collins has to have done that on purpose!

Valerie and Gina is inspired! But given my Mum was Jacqueline and my MiL Susie, Jacsie doesn't sound much better!

I am feeling irrationally angry that they have used our daughters name.

Oh well, at least you realise you're being irrational.

More than one person has the same name. It's hardly a shocker.

If it makes you feel any better your daughter will always be the older so the world will know she was the first Balonzo or whatever it is.

It seems more that you enjoy the attention of a "different " name and have had the wind blown out of your sails than the fact there's a duplicate around.

I'm relieved that she didn't use mine.

Unfortunately OP you didn't actually create the name yourself, it existed before you decided to combine the 2 names, maybe on a subconscious level you had actually heard it before. Nobody owns a name. I will be calling my baby a name that I can only find 2 other people in the world having & if 6 months down the line the neighbours decide to use it so be it!!!!

I bet it's not that uncommon, and if he's anything like me, it probably half went in and he forgot and later thought he'd come up with the name by himself.

😆

Ah, but maybe they did? Oaken

YANBU. It’s such an obvious steal that I’d be pissed off too. Someone did something similar for one of my DC. He saw her as a baby and asked about her (extremely unusual) name. I thought he wa just being polite and nice, but a few weeks later his baby is born and gets the same name as mine.

When my DD started school, there was a child in the village with a name that I’d hardly ever heard and never met a child with. I was chatting to the mum and she told me ruefully that it wasn’t such an unusual name at all - because there were now two other younger children in the village with the same name. This is a village with a couple of hundred people in.

I think it’s pathetic and unimaginative to choose a name by pinching one that someone you know has used, especially if it’s a ‘special’ name that means something to the person who originally used it and nothing to you.

I can understand why you’d be annoyed, OP. Perhaps next time you see them (preferably in front of lots of your mutual friends!), you can explain where you got the name from, and ask in a loud voice where they got THEIR inspiration from…?

Absolutely this.

True story this.

I was a little baby (well 9 months) when my Mum's neighbour had a baby, she came over to see my Mum and said that she was really sorry but she really liked my name and could she use it. My Mum was like 'of course'.

We were in the same year at school, we were ten a penny anyway.

haha. Grandfathers for my kids are Alan and Edmond. So my son would have been Almond.

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