Naming baby same name as a cousin?

You can call your baby any name of your choosing. Nobody owns a name and if they are are offended so what?
Most people would probably flattered actually, I know I would but nobody would give a baby such a boring old fashioned name🤣

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They have criticised each of the names I have chosen for different reasons . Sometimes I think the only way to please them is to leave the choice solely up to them![/quote]
That is what my xmil wanted!! she thought she could control me ''subtly'

Whenever I told her a name she said ''you have to think of the child though'' as though the name I'd suggested was Diesel or Montgomery or something. The names I was suggesting were normal names but perhaps not in the top 100.

She wanted me to give my son the name of the man she'd left her husband (my x's father for ) I found that funny, that she thought there was a chance I could be ''subtly'' manipulated in to that!

I always tell people to not tell anyone their name choices, it just causes unnecessary crap.
Name them what you want

My cousin gave her daughter my name so as in your situation, first cousins once removed. I do remember my cousin ringing to run it past my mother though.

Don't talk to them about names. I named my daughter the same name as a second cousin and cousin's wife. To be honest it didn't really cross my mind that I was using their name as it's a classic name and the one I saw most used a nickname. I deliberately avoided the names of my own cousins, siblings, and their children. When you are in a large family a bit of crossover is inevitable.

I have cousins that share a name , I've cousins that share my name and my brother and our first cousin share a name. Nobody bats an eye lid really.

I’ve never understood the issue of cousins with the same first name, in our family they are just big x or little x
Ours is a family name though

I don’t think it’s an issue. My cousin and I were pregnant at the same time, she was due a month before me, and she named her daughter Ellie. We had had some longer forms of that on our list and we’d have still used it if that had been our final choice.

A work colleagues husband, son and 2 grandchildren all have the same first name. Her DH, DS and one DGS have the same surname also whereas her DD's son has a different surname.
I don't think they find it confusing, its a family name and I think a lot of the cousins all have the name.
It's David btw so very common

Yes its fine and can be fun. My child and my cousin's child have the same name. My aunt was named after her mum's sister. My cousin, their parent and grandparent all have the same name. We call them little x, big x and great x.

It's absolutely fine. I've just said on another thread how 2 cousins on the same side of the family share a name, and it's never been an issue.
Also my cousin and her brother (half brother, he's not my cousin technically) both have DDs called Chloe.
My DD has my mums name
DS1 has my dad's, brothers and stepdads name as a middle name
DS2 has a similar name to another brother and the same middle name as the third brother

It's really absolutely fine to use whatever name you want to use.

Not an issue - different generations, lots of kids have their parents name, baby David.

Second cousin I didn’t see much - wouldn’t bother me. First cousin growing up nearby… I wouldn’t.

I think it's fine. My son is named after my grandpa and it's a family name. I wouldn't mind at all if another cousin used it as well.

Really doesn’t matter. Just crack on.

We did this - he’s not named after the cousins but it was our favourite name. DH and I each have a cousin with the name! We rang our aunties to ‘ask’ if they didn’t mind, but we knew they wouldn’t. Cousins are now 50 and 30. DS is 10. We never see them unless at weddings or funerals.

Someone I know recently gave their baby the same name as me, not after me they just liked the name.
But I felt glad that knowing me hadn't turned them off the name.
I think your cousin will either be flattered thinking it's after him or glad you still like the name enough knowing him to use it.
Also if other people know both of you and that your cousins they will probably just assume it's a family name and your cousin and child are both named after a shared great/grandparent.

I thought you meant the babies would be first cousins.

This is ok!

It's fine. My BIL shares his first name with not one, but two cousins.

I would go for it. I have the same first name as my cousin and never been an issue

My dc has the same fairly common first name, middle initial and surname as my cousin. Cousin and aunt took it as a compliment on their taste in names! Great grandparents find it moderately confusing.

If they had both shared a really unusual name, say, Keturah or Asterios, or we saw loads of each other, it would have been weird.

Cousins son is even less likely to cause offence i would think. My cousins have 12kids between them so far. That's a lot of names to avoid.