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.

I don’t know anyone who would say do one. Evidently people say it. Just not in my social milieu

It’s straightforward (not simple) if you are an evolved and experienced adult. Pretty hard if you have relied on memorising a textbook as your guide, Lipstick. Get out a bit more

And from other side,I’d congratulate on pg and reassure that one can’t steal a name,and to move on.not to fixate on a minor point

Get out a bit more, Lipstick, and move beyond your narrow social milieu and your vocabulary will increase, and with it your understanding of human emotion.

Thank you for enquiring after my well-being and activities user1499
I have a balance of individual and family activities

You sound more and more like a text book

I think it would be a pretty crappy thing to do. Especially if it's an unusual name.

My social milieu is wide,but interestingly no one feels inclined to suggest anyone do one

Don't be a dick op.

Absolutely shitty, especially under the circumstances, she will never forgive you (rightly so) had it done to me, I know about these things..

I'd be really pissed off if I was her

I don’t know anyone who would say do one. Evidently people say it. Just not in my social milieu

Oh so you have heard of it? Because you have ranked it on the social scale and you knew it wasn't a typo, so you must have heard it.

If someone said something that made no sense whatsoever in a very short two words, I'd assume they'd made a typo. I certainly wouldn't assume it was some strange phrase only uttered by people not of my social milieu and risk humiliating myself by then announcing that I had never heard of such a thing.

Unless of course, I had heard the phrase, and wanted to give the impression that I had never heard such a word while clutching my faux pearls in my hand.

Whilst I agree that no one owns a name, I think that given the circumstances this would be a shitty thing to do.

What does your DH think?

If you liked it before and said you liked the name before then fine. If you have only decided on it as she mentioned it then it’s shitty.

Have you never watched a fim or read a book about people not of your "social milieu"?

Yes I have heard it puddles,here. Were evidently it’s a thing.to do.Once?

I bet you love a good Martina Cole when no one is looking.

I have read numerous books,for pleasure,for work.a plethora of topics

If i was them i would be pissed. My sister has done this to us. I made it clear i would be really angry should she use it. Wish I'd of kept my mouth shut. I think its a horrible thing to do.

Crime, definitely
I recommend Clare Macintosh
I’ve Never read martina Cole,reckon it’d be like Peggy Mitchell with a pen

Crime? I've never heard of such a thing. No one in my social milieu commits crime, how could I have ever heard of it?

My sister just stole my baby name and one that came with lots of personal reasons behind it. I’m not angry just sad about it, I loved it for all its meaning and now i can’t use it.

Fair enough puddles.if you have no experience of it,I understand

A friend did this to me.

I Told her my 2 names (1 boy and 1 girl).

She for pregnant (I never ever did) and she used the boys name. it's quite an usual one also.

I've not met another baby with the name, except for hers.

Breaks my heart

No-one owes a name, if you like it use it.

She really should not have shared what name she was going to use.

So she only has herself to blame.

Like fuck would I not use a name I like just coz someone else says I can't, coz THEY 'thought of it first...'