Name stealing?

[lilystyles]

I'm pregnant with my third baby, a boy, who we are planning on calling Sonny. I loved this name for my 1st but she was a girl, and my second but my husband didn't like it (at the time). Problem is I know a women who's sons go to school & pre-school with my DD and DS, and yes her youngest is called Sonny. We aren't great mates but chat most days & our two youngest sons play together in the park before school most days too, plus will be going up through school together. Aibu to still use the name?

Go on, use it. You won't be friends with them forever.

When DS1 doesn't have a very unusual name but he was the only one in his nursery. However, in the space of 6 month 2 of his friends' parents called their new baby this.

I wasn't upset, I was actually quite flattered that they must have thought he was a good kid

I would be upset if a close friend of MINE (as opposed to DS) nicked the name though.

Of course not. Names don't belong to anyone so they can't be stolen. It is a non problem imo.

Of course not. You could choose a different name, only to find that there are three other boys with the same name in his class - and sod's law would dicatate that he would be best friends with all of them, too!

A rose by any other name and all that!

I think you should use the name if you love it, and will regret it if you don't.

FWIW my daughter has a reasonably unusual name and when a close friend was expecting a baby (and didn't know if it was a boy or girl), she asked if I would mind if she gave her baby the same middle name that my DD has as a first name. I loved the idea, and when my friend's DD was born she used the name. My DD loves the fact that someone else has her name!

Use it!

One of my nephews is called Sonny. Lovely name

I would find it a great compliment if somebody called their child the name of one of my children, so dont worry. Use the name if you love it

they don't own the name so use away.
Its a lovely name

Use it, there are just not enough names to go round, so unless you want to make one up, you are going to use someone else's names!

Anyway, One, two, Five years down the line, you my not even see them again, and may well regret not having given him that name, just because at the time, you knew someone who had that name.

It's one of those things that seems really important now but in years to come you'll look back and wonder why you were so worried.
use it! It's a great name!
By the way, my kids swimming teacher is called 'Sunny' and she's a she!!

she doesnt have dibs on a name.if you like it use it

I used a (fairly common) name for ds2 that one of my friends from ds1's ante natal group used for her first. I did ask her, and she didn't mind at all.

When I was a kid my gran's friend loved my sister and my names so much that she used both of them for her RED SETTERS

Lily, did your friend make up the name? No. She 'stole' it from someone else - perhaps Cher's ex?

Use it.

Use it. BTW I was at college with a girl called Sonny (from Sweden).

An actress late of a certain soap has just called her newborn DD the same name as my five year old DD. what was once a pretty , old fashioned , and slightly "boho" name will now be co-opted by chavettes everywhere arghbloodyarghargharghargh!!!!!!bothand:(

If you like it you use it. No point worrying what others think.

jenpet1 you are - of course - completely right! just a touch narked that all my efforts to secure for DD a name which wouldn't instantly identify her background have been utterly crushed. With so many snobs out there I might just as well have named her after a generic name for chablis. LOL