My (26f) sister called her new dog a name i was hoping to call a future child.

You can still use the name OP. Try not to stress to much about it.

When my daughter was born she didn’t suit any of the names we had thought of so we named her something totally different and the shortened version of her name is the same as my Grandma’s dog - I didn’t actually think about that until we took her to introduce her to my Grandma and she pointed it out!

Good luck getting some support OP. Chin up xx

In some ways it is good, she obviously liked the name too, this way she is less likely to name any dd which she has with that name. By the time you are pregnant and have a girl and the girl is old enough to know the dog will probably be at least 3 or 4. As pp said most dogs don't live too long and until your dd (if you have one) is a teenager she probably won't care too much that her aunt's dog has the same name.

Ignore the dog and if you have a baby girl one day, use the name of your choice.

To answer the OP though, I’d still use the name, dogs only live about 12 years anyway. Just prewar you’re sister that this will be the case.

@MrsSpookyM I predict Lola, everyone seems to have a dog called Lola 😂

We had a rescued cat who arrived with a human name. Odd name for a cat but she answered to it so we never bothered to change it.

A year or two later NDN gave birth to a daughter, gave her the same name as the cat, and asked us to rename the cat "to avoid any embarrassment.". I said we were not at all embarrassed , she said we don't want people thinking we named the baby after your cat. I said, Well, we all know you didn't. But if it bothers you what people think, choose another baby name.

  We both stuck with the name and  nobody cared.

My mum rescued a cat before I was even pregnant and she was asking for opinions on names. We all gave ideas and she said one she liked and I said no don't call him that, that's the name me and DH like if we have a son. She laughed and said it's a lovely name and she'd just change it if we did.

Fast forward about 5 years and we now have a 3 year old with the same name 🤷🏼‍♀️ lol it doesn't bother any of us. The cat gets nicknamed "fat cat" a lot anyway

My son and my fathers dog have the same name. Didn’t even think about the dog when I named DS

I think it’s understandable to be a bit miffed but it’s also ok to still use the name. DD has the same name as DSIL’s cat. Just a coincidence, we picked a name and were not thinking of family pets. SIL reminded us when replying to the birth announcement - no one seems to think it’s weird (and if they do they haven’t told us!)

The dog could be dead by the time you have a female child.

Oh and I see her a lot as I am very close to her father

My great niece was born a year after I got my dog, they both have the same name, it causes no issues at all

Hope you’re feeling more yourself soon

Don’t be so hard on yourself OP!! It’s fine to be a bit irrationally annoyed/sad by that, just as long as you recognise that the situation is fine really—you’ll have your lovely baby someday, and when that happens the name will be the least of your concerns. You can stick with it if you want, or you may even find it no longer suits. Most children would love to have the same name as a dog they know, and they have very different lifespans.
You’re doing great, and there’s nothing wrong with being upset for a bit as long as you work your way through it. I don’t think it’s the name of the dog really that is getting to you—it sounds more like you’ve built an image of a perfect future, and it upsets you to have anything potentially intrude on or tarnish it? I totally understand this, but you need to work on accepting that plans never go from a straight to b, and that’s ok. Don’t let the pursuit of the perfect spoil the great!

DP was given the same name as his grandparents dog. He doesn't mind! It was a nice dog, apparently

I teach a mature student called Oscar, whose dog is also called Oscar - the dog belonged to his wife before they met. Lovely bloke, and lovely dog!

As you're not pregnant yet and you may have an army of boys, I would let this go.

Tastes change, you might not even like the name when the time comes. Or, the baby might not even look like that name. My dd didn't suit any of our top three names, so we had to come up with something else!

I know some one who has just named a puppy hopefully not the same person!

I'm sure your sister didn't mean to upset you, did you tell her the name before?

You will come to feel differently about this OP. By the time you come to TTC you may be with a partner who doesn't like the name, or because you like the pet so much it won't feel like your child's name, or you may be happy to go ahead and use it.

I had a friend called Caleb, which comes from the Hebrew word for dog, because his parents never expected to be parents and had named their dog Benjamin ( which means son). So as they'd already named their dog 'Son' they named their son 'dog' as they had already used their name choice themselves for their own pet.

every second dog we meet has my daughters name lol she just rolls her eyes

OP, I'm sorry for misunderstanding.

Don't have a child in the hope that will give your life meaning. It does not work like that. First make a good life for yourself. Then have children.

My family members had a dog and a son with the same name at the same time .
It's fine OP just use the name if you love it