To steal a baby name?

[Maggie24715]

My husbands cousin is TTC and we were chatting about baby names. I'm 6 months pregnant and love the baby name she's chosen.
Would I be the worst in the world to steal it?
They live at the other end of the country so we only see them at family weddings - but they are a close family with lots of FB groups etc.

[BlueBug45]

@TheGrumpySquirrel it's not normally a problem if the child is fit and healthy. Plus he is so much older and not related, so your friend wouldn't be offended.

[Tistheseason17]

It's like Rachel in Friends. I would not have been so forgiving...

If you did that to me, I'd cool the friendship right off.

So, I guess you decide friendship/relationship or none .... tbh, if you have to ask, you already know the answer

[SamHeughansLeftEyebrow]

What about Josie?
I only know one (compared to loads of Georgie, Georgia, Georgina variants around here).

[Mountainsoutofmolehills]

ask her. Your husbands cousin? I'd go for it......

[JessieMcJessie]

Some cousin of my Mum’s did this with my name (though after I was born). My Mum was still making snide comments about it when I was in my late thirties!

[ittakes2]

Sorry wrong post! I thought I was posting in the sister used my baby names post! Yes I am so glad you are not using it!

[usernamefromhell]

I probably wouldn't do it and judging by the responses on here you ought not to in order to avoid family drama.

But by god the drama and histrionics on here over a baby name.

People talking about having their hopes and dreams trampled on, saying they'd never speak to each other again.

Get a grip, people. In the scheme of human crimes its very petty.

I would probably be mildly miffed if someone did this to me. I would, however, get over myself and move on because a) I don't think anyone can own the intellectual property to a name any more than they can own the right to have someone love them. And b) anyone who is attaching so much significance to a name has lost all proportion.

I find it genuinely slightly disturbing that people are calling the OP all sorts of shitty names as if she was threatening to damage this unborn chid or something. How would you all cope if someone you knew actually tried to harm your child? As opposed to paying an insensitive and ill thought-through back-handed complement.

I really think some of you need to have a word with yourselves...

[Praisebe]

Someone has already tried stealing my baby name but if they actually did I'd still name them the same name just to make things shitty and awkward around them but we hate those relative's so its fine

[Shiftymake]

My original name was snatched by my second cousin born 4 hours before me! My parents had their hearts set on this name and silly enough did tell others, which lead to my fathers cousin and her husband snatching the name mere hours before I was born. They announced the name of their daughter to the family within minutes after she was born. Sad as it was a much better name then what was eventually given to me. The name was Erin.

[Shiftymake]

ps, this didn't cause a fallout as such but my parents were angry at them for this.