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?

You can’t claim a name. DD make was incredibly unusual when she was born 16 years ago but it’s really grown in popularity now and is in the top 100. Surely if you like the name it doesn’t matter

Get a cat and name it after her second child.

Shout for it loudly whenever you are near her (even if it is safely shut up in the kitchen).

Keep talking about what an incredible coincidence it is.

I don't know how you sleep at night with all that on your conscience!

😂

It isn’t star bar - deville is it? The mum was so proud when she told us all

you are being very unreasonable. You do not own a name.

2nd I went to a travel agent and her name was Tiaan I loved it and stole it but spelt it tiarne.

did you ask her whether she liked her name?

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Or https://tinyurl.com/f8f9dx38 as it's otherwise known!

I've replied, but the url is soooo long, MNHQ are looking at it!

This may work https://tinyurl.com/f8f9dx38

I find I really like a name and suddenly it becomes popular, it's not that I have uniquely wonderful taste, it's that I am responding to something in the zeitgeist / confirmation bias.

I predict Daphne over the next few years is going to sky rocket 😆

Someone saw my son’s name on his peg at nursery and used it for their new baby. It’s the risk you run when you utilise your impeccable taste 👌🏻

The fact there are "very few others" with the same name means you didn't make it up therefore your child may not be the only one they were aware of.

Does it bother your child or just you @catphone?

I understand the annoyance but you don’t own a name no matter how unique. Try to take it as a compliment, glass half full and all that, you can’t make the other parents change the name. Your child and this other child are unlikely to cross paths as adults and her name will still be unique.

Did you make it up and then have it trademarked? Since when did anyone own the rights to a name exclusively, totally ridiculous and yes YABU.

Nobody "owns" a name, therefore it can't be stolen.

Honestly, I've never met anyone in real life so immature about names. What does it matter?

I don't think this is going quite the way OP thought it would 😂

My friend was in a similar situation but she laughed about it!

Lighten up.

Omg I LOVED American Gothic! Sheriff Buuuck! Merrlyyyn! 🤣

Google will only bring up stuff that is connected to the Internet. My husband works as a highly specialised data analyst. He uses a range of demographic data, especially from developing countries. It's interesting to see what is recorded, by whom and for what purpose but also where there are huge black holes in data collection- even in developed countries (therefore what is available to Google) So it's possible there are only a few people in the world with the same name as OP's child, or the example you gave, but I think it's unlikely. She will have heard it from somewhere, ergo it's likely more than 4 or 5 other people among the 8 billion people on the planet have too.

Get a grip! It’s a name. Can you prove that she ‘obviously copied it’ from you? Even if she did, why are you being annoyed?! Be flattered that she liked your child’s name enough to use it. In my son’s year there are 4 Lucy’s (out of 50 kids). 3 of them live super close to each other (it’s a tiny village). Shall those parents also be annoyed with each other ?!

I have never thought about my name being unique but this thread has made me realise that I have only ever met two others. And I am not young so well done, mum.

Cripes, you can't own a name. What are you planning next, copyrighting a colour, patenting a food... Move on with your life - let it go....

Just wow 🙈

I get you! We names our daughter a very unique name, in fact we made it up. A guy from school named his the same name a couple of years later. I was fuming. It wasn't even a 'real' name. My son has a more common name and I couldn't give a monkeys if others copy it as we didn't make that one up.

There was a Loveday Carey Lewis in Rosamund Pilchers Coming Home. It was a book and TV adaptation though not sure about film.

I'm curious since Tiaan is a male name pronounce tee-an (like Ian with a 't') are you pronouncing it the same way?

I never seen it before so wouldn't think to pronounce Tiarne as Tiaan, I would assume it was more like Tee-are-nee (kind of like Daphne).