Cousin copied dds name

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Dd is Amalie, cousin is she’s naming her daughter Amelia.
DC are close and see each other regularly.

AIBU to think that’s basically the same name? Im not going to say anything and so will have to get over it but just think it’s really weird.

Amalie and Amelia are absolutely not too similar-sounding for second cousins. Bizarre to think otherwise.

I know siblings called Henry and Harriet and I find that pretty weird tbh (Harriet comes from Henrietta after all!)

Don’t be ridiculous

It’s a very similar name but really if you’re going to call a kid after a film that spawned a million Amelie’s you can hardly now complain every time you meet another one 🤣

I can't believe you think she copied you. It's not even the same name, and Amelia is incredibly popular. It's not all about you!

I always think that giving cousins the same name is a bit much, but where the parents are cousins and the kids are second cousins, why would anyone care. And in full cousins I only avoid it because my kid was born in the same month as her cousin, so very close in age. If there's a gap it is more obvious who you are on about with context (Amelia is walking now! Is clearly little Amelia not the 8 year old!)

I'm thinking Lily and Milly 😍

Different names. You're being weird

Well the kids are second cousins and its not the same name
I come from a big Irish family I have a seventies double barell name so say "mary -ann " and my actual cousins name is ann we have two other cousins with very similar name Emma and Gemma it's not a big deal.

Not the same name.

Amalie?

Nobody is copying that name. You've taken the beautiful French name Amelie and driven a common sledge hammer through it.

The thing is she may have liked the name before you used it and dreamed of naming her future baby that. If it were me I wouldn't let the similarity get in the way just because someone else got there first.

My cousin named her son the same as DS2, I couldn’t give a toss tbh. When DS2 was born, his name wasn’t popular, by the time my cousin’s son was born it was in the top 10 and had been for ages so it would have been ridiculous to be precious over it.

Except she hasn't has she because they're different names?!

Even if it was the same name, who cares. In the 90's every other kid was Jessica, Hannah, Laura or etc

This. I have the same name as one of my cousins. Big age gap, huge family but spent time together - no one has ever given it a thought.

Or taken the Germanic name Amalie and spelt it correctly.

Two different names and, as is oft stated on MN , nobody owns a name.

I think it will be fine as it’s a different name and also a very different style. Amelia is a very popular name. I can understand you being put out if it was an exact copy with same spelling or even Amalie & Amelie but it’s a totally different name.

We have an Ava, an Eva, an Eve and an Aoife (e-fa) in our family, who cares?

You’re being ridiculous OP.

They're not the same, you'll sound silly if you start saying that to family members etc.

We had a Tony (male - big strapping chap) and much younger Toni (female, petite). They were known as Big Toe and Little Toe.

Nobody got confused, and nobody got the hump 😄

So did I. Two Johns. Nobody even thought it was odd.

😂