To be annoyed a friend called her baby the same as mine?

[tottryornottotry]

So a girl I worked with for 3 years (in a small team), who I've kept in touch with and we have mutual friends has called her baby the exact same name as mine. Both first and middle name. They are 9 months apart. It's quite an unusual name too. I feel really annoyed that my daughter had lost her originality somehow?!

[frenchbluepuffin]

If she copied you then a bit weird, bit as others have said she may very well have planned her name for years (carved it into school desks with a compass even 😉). How unusual are the names? I had a guy who used to deliver my wood and he named his daughter the same as mine, a definite copy given that it was an English name and we live in France, but I took it as flattery.

[GraysAnalogy]

Incidentally, sentences DO NOT start with 'so'.

Incidentally, they're sometimes started by people who need to STFU with their childish pedantry.

[MrsJoeyMaynard]

Actually, thinking on it, I might have done this to a colleague.

Colleague had a DC called Billy*.

A couple of years later, I had DS1 and called him Billy*.

Another colleague also had a boy with Billy* as a middle name. She pointed this out when I brought DS1 into the office.

While I was on maternity leave with DS1, another colleague had a baby boy and called him Billy*

No idea about any middle names other than DS1's, but it's certainly not impossible that they were duplicated. I can't really bring myself to care too much about it though.

*All names have been changed.

[vdbfamily]

I would take it as a compliment too. The week I had my first I met an old friend in Sainsburys carpark and was telling him I had just had a baby. It turned out that not only had I named her the same first and middle name as his daughter but they also shared a birthday(3 years apart). We were both delighted and I always enjoy seeing their FB birthday update on my daughters birthday.

[EarthboundMisfit]

Unless it's a popular name paired with a commonly used middle name...Sophia Rose, say...I actually do find this rather odd.

[ample]

First and middle names? YANBU.
I wouldn't say I would be annoyed but definitely .
It has nothing at all to do with your DD's personality and no one has rights to the names they like. It doesn't matter if you meet one or three children in your DC's class who have the same name/s. That's coincidental. But someone you know...a friend or work colleague you are in touch with?
Weird are the workings of the inner mind.
Move on though and forget about it.

[HaveTeaWillSurvive]

Meh, you can think it but it really wouldn't bother me, one of my NCT group called both DC1 and DC2 the same as mine, we were first by a matter of weeks in both, I now know they'd already settled on the name in both cases as she was a bit embarrassed by it. Then a friend of a friend in our village named their DC 'DD name My name' after a chance meeting as she liked it - there's only a few months between and will be in the same class at school but I just think it means we have good taste in names, none of which are top 20.

[Goingtobeawesome]

"I know you don't own the name and it's a free country but you picked the name cos it wasn't well used."

Lol that someone thinks the OP wanting a rare name means everyone else in the world shouldn't use it.

[OnTique]

Incidentally, sentences DO NOT start with 'so'.

Petty or what? (Back atcha)

[Lweji]

So, how are we allowed to start sentences?

[Hullygully]

Is it Taniqua-Dolcelatte?

Amazingly I have met THREE little boys with that name in just the last week.

[GraysAnalogy]

Um, if you find out please let me know Lweji

[blowmybarnacles]

I'd be pissed off too, its human nature. YANBU. Like turning up at a party in the same dress as somebody else. Yes, the dress can be bought by anybody but it doesn't mean you won't be peeved.

Take comfort that everybody will think she is odd to do it and hasn't an original bone in her body.

[Peyia]

Sorry but this is hilarious.....

guarantee that no matter how unique you think your combo is, there will be an Eddie Stobart wagon somewhere with that exact name painted on the front.

[ollieplimsoles]

Yanbu to be upset by it, I take it dd is your pfb?

Dh chose our dd's name and I chose the middle one (she's named after a famous, awesome historical figure, of whom I am a massive fan)
If someone else decided to do this for the same reason I wouldn't be upset, just a 'great minds think alike' thing.

But finding out what you called your child and then copying both names is kinda unimaginative tbh...

[MrsJoeyMaynard]

Incidentally, sentences DO NOT start with 'so'.

So, what do I call this collection of words if I'm not allowed to call it a sentence?

[ClashCityRocker]

One must always use correct grammar on an Internet forum. If you do not, you render your whole point invalid. It's in the rules, Y'know.

I'm not sure if grammar is spelt with an a or an e at the end so I'm going with spellcheck

It would irritate me op, but it would still be an unreasonable irritation.

Kinda like starting sentences with so on an Internet forum, apparently.

[Lweji]

Next time give your baby a more common name and you won't have to worry with copyright.

(Oh, almost forgot: copyright 2016 Lweji, DM)

[mygorgeousmilo]

YANBU that would annoy the shit out of me! Random people, no, you cannot claim the name from them. A friend - it's annoying and weird!

[Lweji]

I'm not sure if grammar is spelt with an a or an e at the end

It's grammare, not grammara.
HTH

(And now I've screwed up my spell caster)

[Twinkie1]

Outside the top 50 but in the top 100?

[ClashCityRocker]

Mind you, some first names and last names just go together.

Like L first names with a J middle name.

Or anything with May, Mae, Mae, Rose or Grace.

When I was at school, everyone's middle name was Jane or Louise or Joanne. No idea why,

[GraysAnalogy]

HA

[Veterinari]

Is the muddle name rose, grace or may/mae?
If so your name is probably much less yooneek than you think

Tell us what it is?

[MrsKoala]

Do they clash? I thought it was the end of the first name that made it sound good with the middle name? Can you give examples of the l-j thing?