Name stealing?

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my brother's best friend has just named his newborn the same name as my brother's son- who is four years old. Now I know that it is a compliment, but it's the way in which he conducted himself. He didn't consult with my brother, didn't even tell him his baby had been born a week ago. My brother heard from a friend. When he rang to congratulate him, and asked the baby's name, he commented it was nice that he had named him after his son: but his best friend had the audacity to say he didn't like the name at all, it was his girlfriend's choice, also he wasn't aware that my brother's son had that name, although he had an inkling! He said they consulted baby name books, etc. My brother is understandably upset and feels betrayed. We, as a family, feel my brother's pain. But are we being terribly unreasonable, or are we justified in our emotions?

I think this calls for a nice and a . It's annoying perhaps but it's not the end of the world.

such a lot of hyperbole about a name.get perspective

The OP hasn't been back, suspect that shows how real this problem is.

An old friend was upset when in-laws that live on the other side of the world named their new baby the same name as my friend's Nan who had died over a decade ago. She said they were being thoughtless? I tried to understand her anger, I really did.

My mum chose what she thought was an original name for me. When I got to school there were 5 of us in a class of 30. The other 4 were younger than me but lived in the same town so their parents could have heard my mum using my name and STOLEN it.

Now, should she have had those families culled?

Now, should she have had those families culled?

No, just the children if the parents refused to re-register them with Yooneeq names.

Mark Twain said that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were not written by William Shakespeare but by another man of the same name!

I was just sitting here having a good long cry and this thread has cheered me up.

When I was little my name was fairly unusual (it's not now) and a woman down the road 'stole' it and used it for her cat. I know they stole it from me because we lived in a small place and nobody else at school, before or after me, was called the same name for years. That's how unpopular rare my name used to be!

It was such an unusual name for a cat that the local paper did a photo and a story of her with the cat (slow news day in our town obviously) and she didn't even have the decency to come clean and give me my parents the credit for inspiring her name choice.

Off on another tangent, on Friday we met an 18 month old boy named Henley. I think after those horrible t-shirts my nephew likes to wear.

Henley? Good Grief.

I am having that - and Vajazzle :)

Thakethis glad you were cheered up but not glad you were crying . Hope you're feeling better.

We heard a Mom calling her DS Armani, d'ya think Georgio or Emporio know about this blatent example of name-nabbing?

headinhands - I am feeling better, thank you.

There's nothing really wrong, I was sorting through some old paperwork and found some hospital notes from when we lost our son. I didn't realise they had them and although they were upsetting to read, even though they don't say a great deal, I'm glad to have found them now because we don't have very much else that is official and proves he ever existed at all. They were good tears in the end.

Catgirl - yes Henley. His mother was pregnant again and I was desperate to ask her if she was considering naming the new baby Pauls Boutique, but she seemed nice and it would have been rude, so I bit my tongue and just hoped privately that she might.

Wow lol

Blimey.

I thought it was your brother's son....

I've been in an absolutely foul mood for about 24 hours and have rowed with my boyfriend. This has made me lol & lol.

Betrayal, personal vendettas and all on a baby naming thread, you couldnt make it up.