Sister has used my baby name

[Giraffe2706]

I know nobody owns a name but this was my absolute favourite boys name and I was going to call my baby due in 4 weeks this name.

We're not the closet of sisters and don't see each other often (she's a lot younger than me and we didn't grow up together) but being pregnant at the same time everytime we did see each other we would talk baby talk and she definitely knew this was my favourite baby name and I was planning on using it for my ds.

She gave birth yesterday to a lovely little boy and this morning she did a facebook announcement introducing 'Dylan James' DJ for short.... I'm really upset and shocked that she would do this, why why why?

DS2 has one of the names mentioned up-thread (very 'traditional' name). He wasn't named after anyone in the family so the name just belonged to him rather than relatives as well.

DH's sister was pregnant two years later and told us her DS was likely to be named the less formal abbreviation of DS2's name. The two names are very similar indeed and traditionally are the same name. I'd be lying if I pretended I wasn't a bit pee'd off at the time, but it clearly hadn't occurred to s-i-l that the names are basically the same.

Several years on, the two cousins love having such similar names and it isn't an issue at all. Except that the grandparents (advancing in years!) continually get them mixed up!

How weird of your sister to do that... Maybe she feels a bit intimidated by you or something as you're so much older.... Who knows but there's no excuse. V gutless to announce on Facebook rather than tell you in person too - you are family! I wouldn't be able to resist mentioning to other family members that you'd told her that was your choice and how weird of her, but I would go with another name for your baby. How about Jacob nn Jake? Edward nn Teddy? Edward Oliver?