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bothered that another parent copied my childs name

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catphone · 22/11/2023 17:03

This happened a few years ago when we lived in a remote area.
My child name was very uncommon and unique. I deliberately picked the name because it wasn't common and I didn't want her to share her name with a number of people. I don't want to say what it is because there are very few people in the world with it. As she got older, in assembly, she found out that someone in primary 1 had the same name as her and the parent had obviously heard of and copied her name. Subsequently, there were a number of others with the same name.
AIBU to be annoyed?

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erikbloodaxe · 22/11/2023 17:35

I can't imagine anyone wanting to call their child mymumsaknob but obviously it appealed to more than just you Op.

GHSP · 22/11/2023 17:34

Is it Balonz?

RudsyFarmer · 22/11/2023 17:34

You should have never said it out loud 🤣

Name235 · 22/11/2023 17:33

I'm picturing someone walking round Morrisons with a large handbag shop lifting names off the shelf and hiding them alongside a shoulder of pork and a pack of cheese.

TrishIsMySpiritAnimal · 22/11/2023 17:32

This reminds me of the thread where a poster raged because her friend copied her ‘custom piece of jewellery’ and it turns out it was a Pandora bracelet 😂😂😂

welcometothnuthouse · 22/11/2023 17:31

How batshit are some people on here? Took a name, really??

CrimsonPig · 22/11/2023 17:31

Have you logged it with 101?

TrishIsMySpiritAnimal · 22/11/2023 17:31

YABU

You don’t own a name.

Is this where we find out the name was something like April as well.

QueenCamilla · 22/11/2023 17:31

καλοκαλoκαιρι · 22/11/2023 17:21

this is hilarious!
when i was born (to an incredibly hippy father) i didn't know anyone with my name. By the time my brother was in reception class 5 years later there were multiple kids with my name, these days it’s pretty much shorthand for ‘I am a massive Tory tw@t’ which is unfortunate, but what else are you gonna do but laugh? cop on to urself Op x

Whatever your name is, misspel it worse than any other misspelling you've heard and hyphenate it with May. That will knock you down a notch and you'll be one with the peoples again. Like Kamron-May. See? Works without a fail.

sensationalsally · 22/11/2023 17:30

why aren't you delighted to find that someone else liked the name so much they decide to use it too?

Name235 · 22/11/2023 17:30

This has got to be a wind up

Haydug · 22/11/2023 17:30

GrandHighPoohbah · 22/11/2023 17:22

Indeed, my DS is called a name that was quite rare when he was born but is now in the top ten. So nobody at school shares his name but it'll be a different story at work 😁. A friend of mine called her DD Elsa. The following year, Frozen was released.....

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I think @CurlewKate was being sarcastic. Grace wasn't uncommon 25 years ago!

DarkForces · 22/11/2023 17:29

You need to name change Elon

Motnight · 22/11/2023 17:29

catphone · 22/11/2023 17:19

It was a small place where everyone knew everyone, the parent knew of my DDs name and when she eventually had her own child she took it

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Have you got it back?

SM4713 · 22/11/2023 17:29

Subsequently, there were a number of others with the same name.

Clearly a VERY common name now then! 😂

parksandrecs · 22/11/2023 17:28

Why doesit matter to you that your child shares a name with another child?

Very odd

ThePoshUns · 22/11/2023 17:28

Call the name police of they took 'your' name.
A wind up surely?

Iloveacurry · 22/11/2023 17:28

I think you need to tell us the name.

Gnomegnomegnome · 22/11/2023 17:28

you need to call the police hun

MaggieFS · 22/11/2023 17:28

I bet it's Nevaeh.

ThePoshUns · 22/11/2023 17:27

Obviously not as younique as you perceive yourself to be. Maybe they chose the name without being influenced by you?

MrsSchrute · 22/11/2023 17:26

You do know that your DC sharing a name with another human doesn't make them less unique or special?
I never understand this weird desire for unique names!!

Homesweethome23 · 22/11/2023 17:26

catphone · 22/11/2023 17:19

It was a small place where everyone knew everyone, the parent knew of my DDs name and when she eventually had her own child she took it

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If it was apparently such small place where everyone knew everyone how did you not find out that the other child had the same name until she started school at age 4/5 years?

ButtonSister · 22/11/2023 17:26

Uncommon and unique? Can't be both.

15PiecesOfFlair · 22/11/2023 17:25

I didn't want her to share her name with a number of people.

Did you realise at the time you had no control over this, or are you only just realising now? Wink

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