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AIBU?

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to be peeved that they are using DD's name?

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LifeIsButtercream · 29/12/2010 12:49

I might be BU, but this is bothering me (and not in a 'I got there first' way)!

My brother (who I have little contact with, other than via my parents, due to his behaviour towards my family and me - long story) has announced that his 17yr old on/off girlfriend is pregnant, and if the baby is a girl they will be naming it......

..... the same name as my 20m old DD, INCLUDING the same middle name. AND surname.

DD's name is relatively popular (in the sense that I know another mum with a daughter with the same name, but its not so popular that there are several of them at each toddler group etc). Middle name is not a commonly used name.

Brother's girlfriend (who I have never met) has apparently set her mind on it after hearing my DD's name, and she is rather stubborn (I've been told many times) and wont contemplate another name.

AIBU to be a bit narked, as I think this may cause a lot of confusion, especially for my parents and grandparents (both my surviving grandparents suffer from dementia) who will be having regular contact with the new baby, who to cap it all off, is due in the same week as my DD's birthday.....

AIBU to be secretly hoping it is a boy? Or she has a change of heart?

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JenaiMarrsTartanFoxCube · 30/12/2010 11:16

People can be very odd about names, imo.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

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