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?

My 28 yr old Archie Frederick likes to muse over how his name was laughed at in school but he's now lost track of how many Archie's have been christened in his church.
Don't stress over this, you have no control.

You're being absolutely ridiculous.

It was a small place where everyone knew everyone, the parent knew of my DDs name and when she eventually had her own child she took it

This, with bells on.

there are very few people in the world with it

And you know exactly how many people globally have your child's name how exactly?

You don't own a name. Maybe you should have done a Kardashian and tried to trademark it? Maybe next time

Two of my friends (who don't know each other) chose the same name for their daughters thinking it was rare.

The name was... Amelia. A very nice name, but the No.1 girls name at the time definitely not rare!

She took it? Really? 😂

Do you live in a rough area? It's definitely to do with that.

Yep- when you have nextchild remember to copyright the name

My thoughts exactly 🤣🤣

this is hilarious!
when i was born (to an incredibly hippy father) i didn't know anyone with my name. By the time my brother was in reception class 5 years later there were multiple kids with my name, these days it’s pretty much shorthand for ‘I am a massive Tory tw@t’ which is unfortunate, but what else are you gonna do but laugh? cop on to urself Op x

She didn't take it, for it never belonged to you.

Yabu.

You obviously found the name somewhere, chances are so did the other mum. It reminds me of the baby group I went to with DD, 5 years ago now, where two thirds of the class were called Quinn 🤣

Indeed, my DS is called a name that was quite rare when he was born but is now in the top ten. So nobody at school shares his name but it'll be a different story at work 😁. A friend of mine called her DD Elsa. The following year, Frozen was released.....

Your mistake was not registering it as a trademark.

She didn't 'take' the name though, did it? It's just a name. I know three people (who also know eachother) who called their kid Josh. Is that allowed though because it's more of a normal name?

You beat me to it👏👏👏

Where did you hear, I mean steal, the name from?

Our eldest has a fairly unusual name for this time and the culture we live in. She's named for a relation of mine in a different religion who meant a lot to one of my parents. I'd only ever met this elderly lady with the name prior to calling my daughter it. A year later, a lady my husband and I worked with no connections to the faith the name comes from named her kid it. I was never sure it was inspired by our daughter, but I highly suspect it was. I am glad to have spread the knowledge and love of a truly beautiful name out there. Good luck to them. You should try and think of it this way too.

We really need to ken fit this name is - tell us min.

You were not the only one trying to be unique. Everybody else was at it too.

I didn't want her to share her name with a number of people.

Did you realise at the time you had no control over this, or are you only just realising now?

Uncommon and unique? Can't be both.

You do know that your DC sharing a name with another human doesn't make them less unique or special?
I never understand this weird desire for unique names!!

If it was apparently such small place where everyone knew everyone how did you not find out that the other child had the same name until she started school at age 4/5 years?