Can I use a name a friend had just used?

[Notthisoneagain]

Our baby boy is due any day and we've gone through lists and lists of names and both really stuck on Hugo. We both really love it and it goes with middle & last name perfectly.

The only problem is that a girl I work with has called her little boy Hugo too just a few weeks ago.

We don't see her out of work and are just work & Facebook friends but I can't help feel she might think we are coping.

What do you think?

It's fine to use it.

I'd mention it to her first but it's fine. Something along the lines of, congratulations, excellent choice of name - that's the name we have chosen too!

I think it would be different if it was really obscure/unusual name but I know of quite a few baby hugos recently so I think it's fine.

Totally fine to use it, not a good friend or relative so no issue.

She is just someone you work with that you don’t see outside of work.

No problem at all

use it! you will only regret it if you don't....

It's quite a common name at the moment so I don't think it matters tbh.

I called my baby something pretty unusual (so I thought), we come from a family of outlandish names so I was trying to keep up the tradition and two people from my social media have since named their children the exact same name, first and middle name. I was slightly irritated at first but it’s just one of those things. She will probably just laugh it off and not give it a second thought.

I would. She's not a close friend so I don't think it matters x

I would mention it to her so there's no hard feelings but would still go with Hugo if that's the name you both love. Work colleagues change all the time. You'll be saying your DS' name the rest of your life

Just use it, what can she say..
If she confronts u say that's always been my name for a boy and we don't mix in the same circles anyway

Use it anyway, it's fine

Thanks everyone. I just don't want her to think we are copying.
I'm on maternity leave now so would look odd if I messaged her on Facebook to tell her what name we are using seeing as we haven't told anyone else. As I said, we only chat in passing at work.

I wouldnt

I would!

If she’s not close enough to drop an inbox message to then I definitely wouldn’t worry about it! Doubtful you’ll be colleagues forever but you’ll be shouting Hugo up the stairs for the next 18+ years! Use it!! :)

Unfriend her?

Then she'll have no knowledge of your childs name.

I would. Seriously are you going to be colleagues together forever? It's a lovely name that isn't totally rare so she would have know they'd be others when she named him.

Bit jealous too as I love it!

Yes, use it! She doesn't seem like a close friend at all and even if she was, friends come and go. There's no point forever regretting not using the name you love.

I don't see any problem using this great name at all. It's not like it's a very unusual name - Hugo is in the top 50 in the UK now I think.

Use it!!

I wouldn't want to personally how about Hugh

Use it

Several of my colleagues had baby girls this year and they've all called them Margo. No hard feelings anywhere.

Definitely use it, and tbh, I wouldn't even bother sending her a message.

I don't really know why it would matter if she thought you were copying, either.