To be thoroughly pissed off they called the new Royal Baby "Charlotte".

[QuietTiger]

Because now I'll have to endure idiots asking if I named my DD1 (4 months old) after the Princess and my DD's name, which was chosen with care because it is traditional and classic, is going to suddenly become "super popular" with the masses.

It happened for the first time yesterday admittedly she was an American tourist who was admiring my PFB I was asked "Did you name her after the new Royal baby?" No, she's 4 months old you cretin

Why couldn't they have called her something original like "Pasturella Venus" or Channel (deliberately spelt wrong)-Beyonce?

FFS!

Yabu. She was making conversation.

Bet she learned her lesson.

You should write to them and complain. You deserve restitution!

Are you not one of the masses then? Presumably you belong to some sort of global elite? Or are you actually worried that people who shop one supermarket down from you are going to use the same name?

YABU.

Who cares?

Well they're probably thinking why couldn't have called your little darling " hot chocolate sweet cheeks"

There were charlottes before your daughter their will be ones after the princess, some maybe because of the princess others may not.

And do ask the American tourist for the lottery numbers next time as the name wasn't announced yesterday!

DH had to get up and find an excuse to walk away

Over reaction much

In your OP you say, "I was asked "Did you name her after the new Royal baby?"

Then you changed it to "and she asked if I'd chosen Charlotte because the Royals were considering it."

Not sure which it was?

Either way, Charlotte is a pretty common name so I doubt you'll get too many people commenting.

And as others said it's hardly a very unusual or exclusive name is it?

Charlotte and George have been in the UK top ten for at least the last ten years (haven't they?)

Ffs if you are going to get this ariated about someone using the same name, you should have called your dd something a bit less popular

Change it to Britney-Bob.

It's got a ring to it, don't you think?

Like Ether.

Interesting back track there OP!

As if anyone cares what or why you named your baby a perfectly normal name!
There are loads of people wittering on about this...is it just an inflated sense of their own importance or what?

Ethel or Mildred.

Well I am pissed off because my cousin is called Charlotte and you stole it and used it for your child.

A friend called her son olaf, now because of frozen he gets ' oh Olaf the snowman' he is four so not named after the frozen character and she isn't bothered.

Your husband sounds like a complete drama queen.

So she didn't ask if you named her after the royal baby then? Yabu

Koala they sound well suited.

I missed the bit about the dh walking away. I really hope the op is joking.

It'll get shortened to Charlie anyway.

To please her grandfather.

Isn't Charlotte already quite a "popular" name?

You at bing ridiculous. It's not like Charlotte was an unusual name four months ago, there are four in the tiny school I work in.

But Charlotte is a really common name already?
Loads of them about.

Change your baby's name by deed poll to 'Shar-Lot' - that'll do it

If you liked the name before then it makes no difference, surely?

sooty, you are not wrong