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

Think it's cus her baby is 7 months old... They must have also liked the name and choosed it 😊

sara is a totally different name to sarah, it does my head in when people (sara cox, i'm looking at you) pronounce them the same.

Farrah doesn't at all rhyme with either.
SAIR-uh (sarah) eh sound like in air or fair.
SAH-ruh (Sara) long ahhh sound like in far or Spa.
Fa-ruh )farrah. short ah like in cat or bat.

Farrah rhyming with Sarah? On what fricking planet?

GreatFuckability is right on all three.

Farrah rhymes with the first two syllables of "caravan"

Sarah rhymes with "area" if you delete the E sound.

Sara rhymes with Lara or Dara.

though, it is accent dependent. for example the way American accents (in the main, again, it differs between regions) pronounce Sarah and Farrah might be pretty close.

Farrah doesn't rhyme with sarah or sara. It's a short 'a' sound.

Sorry GreatFuckability you are wrong about Sarah and Sara. Of course they are not 'totally different' names, they are just different spellings (and sometimes pronunciations) of the Jewish name Sarah, from the Bible. Sara can be pronounced either Sah-ra, or Sair-a, the same as Sarah. Ever seen the film 'A Little Princess' based on the classic children's book? The heroine's name is Sara, pronounced as Sarah. I think it is more usual to pronounce it that way in the US, but that pronunciation is in use over here too, for example Sara Pascoe says it that way. Both pronunciations are quite normal!

Farrah to rhyme with Sarah?

That is unique for sure...

In response to the question about Farrah Fawcett honestly I don't know if I have. Everyone I've heard refer to her said it how I would and I don't think I've ever heard the "official" pronunciation. One of those names you read more than hear I guess.

Farrah rhyming with Sarah just sounds strange to me
You've never heard anyone say Farrah Fawcett's name?

Pretty sure we all have which is why we know it sounds nothing like Sarah!

I think it rhymes with Zara...

Not quite.
Zara- Z-ah-ruh. (long first a, short second a)
Farrah- fah-ruh (short first a, even shorter second a)

This is ding my head in - funny as though! Correct me if I'm wrong, but if OP is choosing to call dc after Mo, then that is totally different spelling and pronunciation to Ms Fawcett?

Farrah rhymes with the 'barra' bit in 'embarrassed'

....and Sara Pascoe is wrong.

Sara is a welsh name pronounced completely differently to Sarah.

and I will fight you to the death on that. so ner.

ut if OP is choosing to call dc after Mo, then that is totally different spelling and pronunciation to Ms Fawcett?

No, its the exact same, except she has one more R. Same sound though.

All these years and I've been calling her Faaaaaarrah and not Farah!

I know a girl called Farrah, she pronounces it far (as in far away) uh (is it that aches sound?)
Far-uh.

Maybe the other person had the same idea you did.

I've just looked up Sarah/Sara. Same name. Sara is the hellenistic form of the name, apparently.

Farrah, agreeing with a pp, reminds me of those polyester slacks you'd see in mail order magazines in the 80s.

Are you sure the name is so unique? Maybe someone else came up with the same name?
22 years ago, I thought I had decided on an unusual name for my daughter - granted not a made up one like you say yours is, but an old fashioned name that was rarely used, no one I had ever met had this name and I felt the name was unlikely to take off and become fashionable.
My daughter's name is Ella - enough said.

OP didn't ever confirm that she called the WorldsMostUniqueDD Farrah. She just had an earlier thread saying she was going to call her Farrah. So folk assumed.

Seems more likely that she was going to call her Farrah, then invented something like Farrabella/Buttonina/Skcalsdroc (that's 'cord slacks' backwards, a la Nevaeh) and called her that - only for Opportunistic Mum to call her SecondMostUniqueDD that name too (boo! hiss!)

My daughter is called &e23897412938 and three kids in her class have the same name.

Oh my god if I don't get to know the name I may explode.

Btw - you need to be flattered and get over it annoying but thats life!

If Sara Pascoe is "wrong" then you should probably blame her parents rather than saying that she is wrong herself.