Same name as good friend's child?

[CakeCrumbs78]

Expecting baby number two soon, and if it is a girl ( we chose not to find out the sex) my husband has a clear favourite name, which I also really like.

However, it is the same name as the 2 year old daughter of good friends of ours. By good friends I mean that although we only see them one or twice year as we've lived at different ends of the country post-university, we go on holiday together and crucially I think, we are her godparents. The name is ranked in the top 100, but high in the rankings ( i.e top 80 or 90)

I think we can't use it, DH is adamant that it's not a problem, but I don't trust his judgement on this one.

What do people think?

[NewUserNameTime]

Definitely no! You cannot use the same name as your DGD

[pipilangstrumpf]

I think we sometimes forget WHY we name someone - to identify them. So please give your dd her own name. There are thousands to choose from!

[SE13Mummy]

I think you need to sound out your friends about this. The Godparents of DD2 have a daughter who is two years younger than her and they were very open about loving her name, saying they'd have loved it for their DD if it wasn't DD2's name. They live locally and we see them a couple of times a week but DH and I told them repeatedly that we wouldn't mind one bit if they did use the same name. We love the name and it's not over-used so DD2 rarely meets another - we didn't feel there would be any problem with the girls growing up and knowing both sets of parents loved the name did much that they both chose it.

As it happens, our friends chose something along the same lines but not the same as DD2. If you only see your friends a couple of times a year, I don't see why sharing the same name would be an issue.