bothered that another parent copied my childs name

[catphone]

This happened a few years ago when we lived in a remote area.
My child name was very uncommon and unique. I deliberately picked the name because it wasn't common and I didn't want her to share her name with a number of people. I don't want to say what it is because there are very few people in the world with it. As she got older, in assembly, she found out that someone in primary 1 had the same name as her and the parent had obviously heard of and copied her name. Subsequently, there were a number of others with the same name.
AIBU to be annoyed?

I think you should change your daughter's name @catphone. And change it again every time anybody copies you. It's the only way to be safe that nobody has the same name.

And avoid vowels. Or consonents. Possibly both.

Agh! But then that gets us back to "symbol" which has also been used.

I have a lot of sympathy for the OP. This is a tough one.

You must have got the name from somewhere, how do you know they didn't from the same place?

The only way to fix this op is to have a son and name him Gary, Kevin, Wayne or Nigel.

Mine was a usual name in the 50s, not many people had heard of it until an American tv series came in the late 60s. There are more than 4 ways of spelling it and mine is hardly ever written correctly. A friend gave her daughter my name. What a compliment.
You are being silly OP, you can’t book a name for life.

I'm.a teacher. 'Unique' names often aren't unique at all. You obviously heard it from somewhere, why can't they have? Also, how do you know very few people in world have it? The UK yes, from ONS data, but the world?

About 5 of my son’s friends have the same name as him and I’m nowhere near meltdown. I think it’s lovely that lots of other mums thought the name was so nice

I quite like the name audacity ..... is it unique?

‘When she heard it she took it’

😂😂😂😂💀I’m dead.

Agree

You’re joking right? Nobody is this ridiculous

Oh yes they are. I know someone who is pissed off that we used their child's middle name.

Is this a joke?

This didn't happen.
Noone could be so ridiculous 🙄

Did you name her after the professional wrestler?

I'm 33, there was a Grace in my class at school and I have a relative born in 1993 called Grace.

Give over! You don't actually believe that a not that common name can't be used by others.

Maybe people should get a copyright?

If you or your DP are literally giving birth right now there's a chance you'll be the first, if you register them quick.

I reckon by midnight it will be old hat.

Wouldn't piss me off at all. There's other lads at my DS's school with the same name as him. I don't care because it's a complete non issue.

My parents thought they were giving me a not too out there, not too common name. All I have done throughout my life is collect friends with variants of my name.

You know you can trademark a name OP to avoid this ever happening.

More fool you. Your only option now is deedpoll

Is the name Yoonique? Or Neveah?

you simply don't think as uniquely as you think you do
i think it is this too. We are influenced by our upbringing. You were probably exposed to the name in the same way / around the same time other people your age were.

my dd’s name was unheard of when i was young. I heard it in my early twenties when in greece. A group of young adults on holiday and one called out the name to another and i though ooooooo i like that. When i was pregnant i was in a Queue behind a woman with the name, and she must have been around 80. There has never been another child in preschool, primary or high school with the same name as my dd but i know it is really popular now.

@tachetastic I'm copywriting it, so don't you even think about copying my uncommon and unique name!

If you won’t share the name then you are just attention seeking. Maybe other people think you copied their name choice. After all you didn’t make up the name so other humans in existence have had the name.

She (or they, are you assuming she had sole naming?) didn't 'take it'. It was never 'yours'. Unless it was a name that was completely made up like Trixie-Twinkle-Toes Wallpaper the Fourth... In which case, your small village has bigger problems...