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

Pelvic floor, covfefe

When i was in school, there were three girls (two cousins, one unrelated) that had very unique names that they insisted their parents had made up. I've now met a couple of people with each of those names! It happens.

This thread is going to be a disappointing google alert for Farrah Franklin so I'll just add that I quite liked that song she had in 2001.

Snorting at this post from a couple of pages back.

No one's even started on Amy Farrah Fowler yet.

There was a girl in my primary school who was adamant her parents had made up her name, she was the only one ever and it was a mix of her grandparents names (Anna and Ella to make Anella.)

She was most disappointed when we got to high school and there was another Anella in the year above.

Yes, Sarah/Sara the same name, with the second version having more than one pronunciation. Amazingly enough, sometimes names (just like other words) have more than one pronunciation in use. Don't really know why that would do anyone's head in.

Name dammit!!!

*I am rather partial to Engelbert Humperdinck as a name. I've always fancied being Mrs Humperdinck.

Sadly, Arnold George Dorsey got in there first*

Well, actually Engelbert Humperdinck got in there first, of course

I know op and the name's xksuvepllsq.

i know 3 Spikes, stoopid name, our councils mascot is named Spike, the parents wrote to ask them to change the mascots name as there children were getting picked on

YABU, you dont own the name!

OP, if you've not run for the hills screaming nest of vipers by now, for future reference the Office for National Statistics have an excellent spreadsheet that details every name registered in England & Wales the previous year. While pregnant with both DCs I particularly enjoyed scrolling down to the very bottom to laugh at the kre-8ive spelling and the three babies named Winner who were probably only ever going to be a disappointment.

There are unusual names but unless you've taken three random consonants, written them down and decided to pronounce the result as Dave there are no unique ones.

The ONS list doesn't have the most uncommon names in the year by definition, as there have to be at least three of them in that year for it to be included. Which is quite the thought when you see some of the names at the bottom!

I love the name Spike!

Sigh
I wish op would come back and at least confirm whether the name in question is Farrah, or actually something incredibly original.
I have to keep checking this thread and the internet is very slow and annoying. Come on OP, get back here and own it!

If you name your child a genuinely unique name (which is bloody difficult I would imagine!) then there are only 2 possible outcomes:

1. Your child remain the one and only yuniqname for its entire life (ergo it's probably a hideous and/or ridiculous name)

1. Other people copy you and the name is no longer unique to just your child, and possibly at some point down the line becomes a recognised name (ergo the name is pleasing to others as well as yourself)

You can't have it both ways sadly

Ohhhh come back OP!

The OP is never coming back. She will be crying onto her keyboard while reading all of the Hugs Shug on Netmums.

Ok, I'm dumb, but I can't find the rare names on ONS, I can only find the lists of the top 100 or whatever...

Here for boys Raven, you have to download the spreadsheet

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys

Which is quite the thought when you see some of the names at the bottom!

DS's name usually scrapes in at the bottom with 3

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

Ha! fair point trills, Mr and Mrs Pascoe, I blame you! I don't even know who Sara Pascoe is

Yes, Sarah/Sara the same name, with the second version having more than one pronunciation. Amazingly enough, sometimes names (just like other words) have more than one pronunciation in use. Don't really know why that would do anyone's head in

Nope. No. No, no, no. I won't have it.

Unique names bring with them other issues and unless you are part of the elite then it sets them apart from others they really only want to be part of.

I'm not a fan of unique names.

Mine is far from unique on a global scale (it's relatively common in the Middle East) but in the UK it's very uncommon and most people I meet have never heard it. My father heard it when he was travelling as a young man and liked it.

It's a lovely name and I do like it, but the years and years I've spent explaining it, spelling it and trying to help people pronounce made me determined from an early age that I would give my own children more traditional, well known names.

Having an unusual name is extremely overrated, unless it's Balonz.

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!)

Seems more likely she forgot she put that post up, and thought this would be interesting ....

My friends daughter is Farrah.