AIBU- Someone has used my unusual baby name

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I wanted my baby to have a one of a kind unique name.
I made up a name that I love. It's definetly never been used before.
(I realise this sounds dodgy already)

Anyway, my baby is 7 months old and someone in my town has just given birth and used the name.
I actually feel really gutted about it.

I realise I am about to be flamed in the comments.
BUt how can I feel less gutted about this? Meh

Unless OP made up the Arabic language, Farrah or Farah is an Arabic name meaning "joy". It's not a "made up" name at all. I know quite a few Farrahs in fact. My friend loved it for her daughter but ended up giving her another lovely Arabic name of Safiya which means "pure".

Made up the Arabic language

Rustybear: thank you so much! I have been trying to track down the Romney Marsh books for ages. Loved them when I was a child, though I confess I couldn't remember Clarissa at all - just Tamsin and Mervyn.

Haven't read them for over 40 years and would love to re-read them though when I did a quick google earlier everything I could find was over £50.

i bet the op changed her mind and went for Farrah spelled backwards for Oh-ridge-inaliteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Harraf, or maybe even harraF for yewnikness!

YABU I'm afraid. I thought my DCs name was unique. I was gutted when I heard a parent shouting their name in the playground once. Thought she was shouting DCs name until I realised she was shouting her own DCs name which was the same as mine. Then we had new neighbours move in. Their DC was also called the same name.

I got over it . DD is a couple of years older than the other kids so I like to think I started a trend OP.

Is it Frogmella or Spudulika? Is your husband called Wayne?

Has anyone hear ever suffered psychological damage because they have the same name as someone else on the planet?

No. My name is a very common one. There were about 8 'Joans' in my primary class and my secondary school form group. We were all known as Joan G or Joan M. It got even trickier to distinguish with seperste initials when there were the two Joans with the same surname though!

Sorry that should be seperate.

DryHeave started it!

This is brilliant. I know we really can't have a third now but

Ah well what you need to watch is using the same initial as the parents.

So mine are adults now and 2 still live at home. Dd has sane initial name as me and ds same as dh. So letters are a problem as never sure whose belongs to who.

My bil had 5 brothers all with the same initial as their dad and all left home late. Nightmare.

Wtf I know loads of Farrahs- 3 in dd school alone

BUT the Clarissa in the smash hit 18th century novel 'Clarissa' does have a made up name. Subsequent Clarissa's are all named after that Clarissa.

all names were made up!!

:-) I mean that the name was made up for that character by the author and sounded slightly bonkers at the time - it's supposed to bring all those connotations of 'the most pure' and 'most chaste'. Other characters in the novel occasionally comment on the name...

@insancerre - I have a 3yo Spike.

It's not his birth certificate name but it is what he's called eg at preschool.

My DD is called Farrah.

No, not really.

Once a unique name has been used for the first time, it becomes an unusual name that has been used before. I hope OP can see it as a compliment that someone else has copied her. Even if it's not unique but just very uncommon, it's still likely it was a copy, so therefore still an endorsement and a compliment.

They might not have actually copied the Op though they might be fans of teen mom or whatever because it is a name and op didn't make it up.

I had no idea Farrah Fawcett Majors was dead. I remember being upset when she split with Steve Million Dollar Man Majors.

At what time please did the OP say the name was Farrah ?
I missed that

She was rumbled at 21:13 by someone finding this thread.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/2895722-Choose-us-a-middle-name-please

Yeah someone did an AS and dug up that thread. I was confused as well.

Of course in the first thread OP hadn't registered the birth yet so it might not be that name at all...

This happened in our town. A local family used what they thought was a name that hadn't been used before, 14 years later there's dozens of the little sods.

Farrah

As in the Charlies Angels actress or the trousers favoured by 1980s geography teachers?

@silverbell64

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In Hinduism Shakuntala (Sanskrit: Śakuntalā) is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharat. Her story is told in the Mahabharata and dramatized by many writers, the most famous adaption being Kalidasa's play Abhijñānaśākuntala (The Sign of Shakuntala).

laguna I think Farrah (my phone just autocorrected to Farragut- wtf???) FM's death went under the radar a bit because she died the same day as Michael Jackson.

At least I think it was Michael Jackson.