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please help with a naming "situation"!

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pinkmook · 29/03/2010 13:49

Hi, just wanted to get some other opinions on the situation we are in WRT baby names.

We are due to have DD in June and would like to call our DD Kitty (shortened form of Katherine) as this was my grandads mums name.

However our neighbours have a 6 yr old ccalled Kitty also. We see quite a bit of them and Kitty and their other DC's play with my DS - they are all in and out of each others houses all the time.

So, would you call your new baby the same name as nieghbours daughter? I'm worried how it will come across and dont really want to pitch up explaiining the connection to our family.

Also, no - one else I have ever met/known in RL has this name so it does seem a bit like we have "copied" them - Oh I know this all sounds very silly but I just wondered what others thought even if you do think IM being a bit silly!

Thanks for reading the waffle!

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pinkmook · 29/03/2010 14:23

Lovethesea - I cant see us moving in the near future - nor them. I would have Katherine on BC and intro as Kitty like you say - just worried she's going to think a) Im some mad stalker type weirdo or b) be a bit sneery/annoyed/smug about us "copying" (even though we know its not)

harumph! I wish they'd just move! LOL!

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pinkmook · 29/03/2010 14:20

Isitme - yes I think thats a fair assumption - pregnancy hormones are very slghtly crazy ATM

Prinpo - I think I will have to engineer a situation where I mention it now, have not actually seen her face to face in weeks though so may be a bit difficult!

Thanks for the replies - has helped me get it in persepctive through hormone haze

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Lovethesea · 29/03/2010 14:17

Are you likely to always live next to them? Do you think that the kids might play apart more as they get older anyway - and there are 6 years between the two Kittys....?

Would you use Katherine on the bc and then just introduce her as Kitty?

IsItMeOr · 29/03/2010 14:16

I'm wondering whether the pg hormones might be getting to you a little, as I'm really struggling to see why explaining you've named your DD after her great-grandmother is a big deal?

Yes, it's a lovely name. Katherine would definitely have been on our short list if we had a DD, as you can have so many variants of it that we like. The chances of you and this neighbour continuing to be neighbours for many years are actually reasonably slim, so I certainly wouldn't change my choice of name for that personally.

Good luck with your DD, whatever you decide to call her .

Prinpo · 29/03/2010 14:15

I know a Kitty - I think it's a fab name. I would mention it beforehand but would present it as a fait accompli and make light of it. In the unlikely event that 'er next doors raises her eyebrows then you can mention the family connection, which kind of gives you a prior claim. I agree that it's a shame not to use a name that you love just because the neighbours have it. Years from now it won't be an issue and your daughter will have the name you wanted.

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pinkmook · 29/03/2010 14:09

Thank you Lockets! it is a lovely name

Fliight it would be a shame but like you say its probably going to look weird if I do it without explaining - and I cant face explaining!

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Fliight · 29/03/2010 14:04

That sounds a bit tricky, yes.

But it's not your problem. I think it would be very sad if you didn't use Kitty because of her. iyswim

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pinkmook · 29/03/2010 13:59

I suppose because althoug their DC's pla here etc, they are not overly friendly IYSWIM. We live on a small, very quiet, new build estate where it is safe for DC's to roam about between the 6 houses on our cul de sac. We dont have a chatty relationship just a knocking on the door - is X here? wave hello when we see them type of relattionship. Not even sure she knows Im PG!

PLus she is a bit of a scary character - very forthright and dare I say it - a little bit snobby?

Now convincing myself to just think up another name!

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Fliight · 29/03/2010 13:53

Why don't you want to tell them? I think that would be the first thing you need to do, and sound them out about it - you have every right to use it, it's a family name - they will be fine about it if they know this. If you don't tell them, they might well think it is a bit weird.

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