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?

Nobody has a monopoly on names, grow up.

If you want your child to have a unique name youll have call them C5rt43w or something, get a grip.

When people are thinking of names for their child, often one parent will veto because they once knew someone they disliked with that name. Is it not a compliment that these parents didn’t go “Urgh, we can’t use that because of (your child)”?

I did the exact same thing. Named my dd after a girl in his school. It's sooo lovely and gorgeous sounding, absolutely everyone comments on that when they ask her name. I don't care, why would I? No one owns a name, my dd will never be in school with that child so I don't care.

Meant after a girl in ds's school.

FFS You don't own the name, you don't get to say who else uses it for their kid even if they did copy it from your kid! It's a name, not the kids identity 🙄(If i rolled my eyes as hard as i want to, they'd fall out and roll across the floor!)

Amberger is brilliant.

Kids are so deliciously mean.

All the people on baby names that insist on a name with a "nn", when kids are never going to use that.

Mine is Jenx because someone at work read love Jen x in a card I sent.

You know perfectly well that is not how many people mean it. Saying popular is nicer.

I sleep soooooo soundly, dreaming of what name I could choose next if I ever had anymore kids.😅

Tiaan was pronounced tea arn
So that's the way I pronounce it
She does tea are nee sometimes but not too often which I dont really understand as I am a Nicole and never get Nicol lee

I think its because without the 'e' Nicol is nic-oll (like col from Colin) not nic-ole. The 'cole' bit is like Hole, Sole, Mole, Dole, Pole, Vole.

The 'e' in Tiarne the way you said its pronounced would be silent though, it doesn't denote any change in the sound from just Tiarn so its easy to assume its there to add an extra sound to the end.

Don’t know why anyone would want to use an Afrikaans name unless actually from that culture as the connotations aren’t great. Tiarne is just illiterate.

You don’t get called Nicolee because it’s a French name and everyone knows how it’s pronounced.

Unless you have legal copyright over the name she didn’t take anything from you as it’s not yours.

What name you could STEAL next, you mean!

Name PLUNDERER!

I'll bet you have a list of stolen names, hidden under your mattress in a bag marked "Swag". 😂

My Grace is in her late 20s. When we named her,it was such an unusual name that some people assumed that we must be very religious and chose the name because we had struggled to conceive. We aren't religious and didn't struggle to conceive-my dp had a crush on a character in an American legal series called Grace!

This is a tragedeigh. Try and put it out of your mynde. I'm sure your D'Auterre is speshul and u-neeq in lots of other ways.

We gave our daughter a name that is completely usual and common enough (it's even in a Beatles song) but in the time and place we were living at the time, very uncommon. Within a few years there were three other babies named it by people we worked with/had another link with. They'd clearly seen we had used it and liked it; it was uncommon enough a name that our baby was obviously the inspiration and one of the mums later told me it was because of our choosing it that it came onto her radar.

I was really pleased and felt a bit flattered that I was suddenly a trend setter. It's a lovely name and I'm glad it's getting more use as a result of our using it!

Try and see it as a compliment. And remember the Mumsnet mantra: no one owns a name. I know it's a cliche, but it's true!

Trends in names are a thing.

I called my DC a name which at the time of choosing wasn't anywhere near the top 30 and I'd not heard a child called that for a very long time.

Two years later it was top 5 and you couldn't move for them.

My guess for the name is

Xanthe

Mabli

Or

Calliope

When I named my oldest son, I chose a name I had never heard of. Saw it on TV credits, and loved it. Within a couple of months it became massively popular. It might even have been popular before that, it had just never come onto MY radar. It happens

I remember feeling very original with my dds name. There was 3 in her year and two years later it was inthe top ten.

You have no idea where this person got the name from and it's pretty arrogant to claim it's stolen