to think that my sister should not be able to reserve a list of baby names for her own later use, whe she is neither pregnant nor TTC?

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Am 38 wks pg. Sis has a 8 month old girl. Have found it really hard to find names DH and I agree on for a boy. Love name Issac, sis thinks it is for her exclusive use. She jokes with me about have I found a name I can actually use yet.. but she has made it clear through my mum how angry and upset she would be if I used this name. She has others too for girls and boys that she belives she has bagged. GGrrrr it is very frustrating.

Issac looks made up.

Research scientist, don't want to say too much she may be lurking, but no not Boots!

She is a planner, everything is planned in her life and very carefully researched. She only mentioned this name when she was pg with DN and did not know if she was boy or girl. Like I said there are others too.

TBH I probably will just work to find something else as don't want the trauma, histronics and guilt that would be laid. But am miffed.

Best friend has this problem too with her neighbour, who ignored her for using a name she had never mentioned she liked but had mentally bagged. 6 yrs on she is still arsey about it.

I was just not concentrating when I typed it, meant to type Isaac. Duh! am typing on tiny smartphone keypad.

Yanbu! She sounds immature and self involved.

sorry OP, was being a smartypants. I hate touch keypads

What other names are on this list of hers?

Are you sure you mean Issac?

I think she's STILL being unreasonable, you can only plan so much, & for what it's worth, I have 2 nephews called Michael, it happens....if she's names her daughter Marie, maybe she's setting up a theme, but shrugs there ARE other names! xXx

Chief- typo

Why is your mother even passing on messages from her about which names you can and can't use?

Surely she should have told her to grow up and stop being silly, rather than pass on the message to you as though all this were perfectly reasonable.

Call your baby whatever name you like the best when he or she is born. Your sister may never have a boy or she may have changed her mind by the time she does have one. She may never have enough children of either sex to use her list of reserved names up on. And you may wish for the rest of your life that you had called your child Isaac or Issac or even Alexander Boris de Pfeffel if the fancy takes you, instead of compromising to suit someone who has no right to demand it of you and choosing something you don't love quite as much.

Me personally wouldn't use a name a close friend or relative had there heart on.

Buy Yanbu to want to use a specific name

I bagsyed DD's name but, TBF it is unusual/historical and no one would have chosen it unless they were stealing my idea . I would not have been impressed if a friend or family member had used it. However, I WHBBU (would have been being unreasonable).