Is this really an issue???

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My brother has a one year old called Eva..I have just called my daughter Eve- both girls have different middle and surnames yet my sister in law has fallen out with us!!!
Is this really an issue?!..surely it doesn't matter at all!!

Have to say I would be irritated by this. It's pretty selfish too.

When my SIL and I were both pregnant we didnt really discuss names until she was nearly due. I told her the boys name we wanted and she said oh - that's what we chose. I didn't know what we were having so I said they could have it. In the end they chose a different name, I always feel guilty that they probably did that because they knew I would have a strop. She says they really werent that bothered about either name they chose.

There is no way on earth I would have chosen a slightly different version of the name to compensate.

Do people really get so arsey over such things? They are similar, but not the same name, so what?

My best friend has just called her baby a very similar name to my DD (we've been friends since childhood so our DDs will definitely know each other growing up though I do appreciate it's not the same as family). Our DDs name ends in 'a' and BF's DD ends in 'ie'
I knew that they liked that name if they were every to have a girl when we chose the name for DD, but at that point I was to never know if they were going to have a DD and it was one of the very few names both DH and I loved. So it wasn't a surprise when they named their baby, and although a few people have mentioned it's weird I've just said it's nothing to do with us what they name their child. There has never been any fall out over it, and if there is any confusion we just combine DDs name with her middle name.

You just deal with these things in life - if you remarry and your new partner had exactly the same name as your child you would just deal with it. Can't really believe so many people are so precious...