To be annoyed at this name stealing.

[Izzy82]

I can't decide if this is weird or not. My husband and his cousin have the same surname (let's say Smith) as their dads are brothers. Last year I had a son (let's say Joe).
Now... The cousin's wife is pregnant and if they have a son have said they will also call him Joe. So there will be 2 Joe smiths in one family. Is that weird or am I being precious?

No I don't think it's strange, I have had baby names in my head for years, I even have baby names for my imaginary other children that I am not going to have lined up.
If I liked a name and always wanted to use it, I wouldn't be put off if my dp / dh cousin already had a dc by that name.

I'd not be happy if one of my cousins decided to use one of my kids name for their child full stop really. Even less so if we live relatively close, the surname is the same and they will most likely go to the same school. However I chose my children's names with the assumption that they would be fairly unique, at least in their own family, and I know all my cousins fairly well. Still there's nothing you can do and at least the OP's son and the cousins son won't be in the same year at school.

No it's not weird, yes YABU.
You aren't that close, your kid wouldn't be in the same school year, the other kid might be a girl, it's a really common name, etc etc.

The only time, if you were inclined to get narked over such ridiculous things, when it might be justified would be if the name were a hideous unique one. But let's face it, there's a reason why unique names stay unique. And it ain't a good one.

If they're going to the same secondary school with the same name, that is irritating. Being geographically that close, I would avoid this.

My cousin's son has the same name as ds1; another cousin's grandson has the same name as ds2. (Both mine were born first.) It doesn't bother me at all. We don't see hem very much. What's more weird is that My sister's dp & my cousin's husband have the same, relatively unusual, surname & they're not related at all.