Husband's cousin has called their son the same name as our son.

[shoulde]

Bit annoying considering they also share the same surname!

I know no one owns a name, but it's pretty annoying.

Aibu?

Meh. My stepson married a woman with my name. Three of my DH's brothers at one point all had wives with the same name. So they didn't choose the name but it was confusing.
You don't own a name and I'd only be annoyed if it was a very unusual family name or something.

I'd be flattered and leave it at that.

In many families there are family names, or variations fo it - Joe, Joey. Joseph, Peppi... look up the name on Facebook, for starters, and you'll see that the same combination is shared by many strangers... one of my sons had the same name and surname as his Head of School...

I think YABU for two reasons:

1. there is enough separation
2. they're three years apart so won't be in the same school year/clubs

husband's cousin? So no close relative. Total non issue.

@shoulde if it makes you feel any better my eldest son has a cousin who shares his name too. His brother and wife used our son's name due to it being similar to a relative they lost during the pregnancy. They live at opposite ends of the country and have never met due to family being very dis-jointed. It happens, try not to let it bother you.

Seriously? 🙄

In my dad's family in quite a small village in Scotland it was traditional to name your first son after your father so there are 7 Georges in our family.

Common/the norm in many cultures...

That was the same in most of Scotland.
1st son Father’s father
2nd son Mother’s father
3rd son father

1st daughter Mothers mother
2nd daughter Father’s mother
3rd daughter mother

Sometimes it switched round, but makes it so handy when doing your family tree when you know that there absolutely should be a Peter/Michael/Mary

I called DD1 the same name as my aunty, as I always thought it was a nice name. We have two Jacks, two Davids and two Chrises in quite a small extended family group and it causes no issues whatsoever.

You've made me smile as that's so true! There are 7 Georges and 5 James!

It’s so helpful 😂

My late FiL was one of 15 and most of them followed that tradition. So so helpful.

Totally unreasonable! Even with the same surname, it's not a big deal! My daughter gave her second born child my partner's mothers name as her middle name. My partner's daughter, when she found out, went absolutely mad. Saying the name has been "stolen" by my daughter, and that she'd wanted to call her daughter by that name (bearing in mind that at the time, her daughter was not pregnant, not planning on getting pregnant, nor was she guaranteed a daughter, even if she had got pregnant!). I just told her not to be ridiculous. She could still have used it as she and my daughter never meet, and their offspring are unlikely to meet often, if at all. I also pointed out that the daughter's name was also one of my middle names (I have 3...), and as I'm older, she had obviously "stolen" my name! She didn't take kindly to that, and called me ridiculous. I had to point out the irony....

Haha, oh the irony...it's so ridiculous, isn't it!

YANBU it's an odd thing to do

Hire an assassin. No punishment is too extreme for a transgression of this magnitude.

It’s not weird. It is weird that people get annoyed about it