To feel that this is in extremely bad taste

[SundayBea]

My son is two and a half. My cousin who we see on a weekly basis has just had a daughter, obviously I am over the moon for her. But she has just text everyone announcing the name and I am completely gobsmacked as it is the female version of my sons name and when pronounced sounds virtually indistinguishable from his name. Think Leo & Leah but even more similar (only one letter different in the spelling). Every time I say the babies name my son looks up at me thinking I am saying his name. AIBU? Obviously I'm not going to say anything, what would be the point. But I can't help but feel so annoyed, I wouldn't mind if it was distant family but they live 5 mins down the road, the children will probably be going to the same school and we see them all the time!

Thanks blazing most days I am OK now but I do always think my story brings persepective to some of the "namezillas" on threads like this who don't want any other baby they know ever having the same name as their PFB!

chalet in that case I would hope the sisters had discussed it and the sister who had lost a child was OK with the very similar name.

My brother has named his cat after me!
I'm honoured.

I know a family in which many people have the same name and the same nickname. It started with one man. Let's say his name was Robert, always known as Robbie (not his actual name).

His first son was also called Robert, always known as Robbie.

Robbie Junior gave the same name to his first son.

And then all of Robbie Junior's siblings also gave the same name to their first children, either Robert or Roberta, and all of them are also known as Robbie.

So in the third generation there is a huge crowd of cousins, all with the same name and nickname. It does cause some confusion, but they are all honouring the original Robert. I think it's quite nice, actually.

So you see, OP. It could all be much more complicated!

I actually think yanbu

Plenty of other names to choose from. What were they thinking? Not much you can do obviously apart from focus on the fact the names aren't exactly the same.

I chose a very unusual name for DS1 and 6 weeks before he was born my mother's secretary's daughter ( who lives very close and is a friend) named her new baby the exact same name! Once we had te opportunity to ecxchange notes we both discovered we had chosen the name about a decade earlier. Itprobably isn't copying and doesn't matter anyway. There are at least 6 Willilams in my family, no one minds.

If it is Theo and Thea then YANBU. There are a bazillion other names they could have picked, but I'm sure after a while it won't bother you so much, OP.

Out of 6 male cousins, we only have 4 names. No-one seems to have an issue with it.

Wow PHANTOMnamechanger that's some shitty behaviour from them, I don't know how they could look you in the eye.