Scared that they'll use "my" baby name!

[BirthdayKake]

I moved to a new area about a year ago and one of my DDs is in Year 1 at the local school.

I'm 20 weeks pregnant and there are currently FIVE mums in the class who are also pregnant! They're all due before me, and our babies will all be in the same class for years. At least three of them are having a girl, like me.

DH and I have had our baby name picked out for a loooong time. I'm so worried one of these mums will use it! I'm not really friends with any of them except to say hello.

Aaagghh what would everyone else do if this happened?!

Drogon, I think multiples of boys names are more common than with girls.... people tend to be more conservative with boys names.

Ah! Only one spelling that I know of. So there must be very few of DDs by comparison then...

@PartyHatOnADog and now I'm dying to know what your DD is called. Send me a pm hehe

@Boulardii yeah I think you are right although there are two Imogens in his class as well! I think we did well with him being the only one with his name.

Just use it - who care! There were 5 kids in my year at school with the same name so what!

I was in a class of three 'felicias' - I don't remember it causing any anxiety and at the ripe old age of 42 I can genuinely say this really didn't impact my life one iota!

You don’t know them, do does it really matter? I didn’t know anyone with DD’s name until she started school. There is another child with her name in her class - she only moved to our area shortly before they started school. Now they are known as Susan A and Susan B (example names). They really don’t mind. I don’t mind. I don’t see the problem.

The chances are, all the 6 babies will have different names, they are unlikely all to be the same sex at least! Then some families might move away. Children with the same first name in the same class only seems to be a problem on MN!

Felicia, there’s a lot of people who say that! I think it might be us parents who feel it that our kid has a common name, more than the kids themselves (obviously this doesn’t bother all parents)
Having been the only one growing up with my name, I didn’t enjoy it when all of a sudden I kept hearing my name shouted and turning round to find people were calling their kid/dog.

However there is nothing we can do to ensure the names we chose do not subsequently become popular in 20 years time!

My sister recently changed her first name to "Effy" after the character from Skins. Regardless of spelling I think it's a pretty name!
I do wind her up by calling her Euphegenia though (from Mrs Doubtfire - "Effy, brace yourself")

At the end of the day, it's just a name. If someone else has it then who cares, really? I mean, you chose it because you like it didn't you? If the issue is that you want her to be yooneek then you'll be better off with something like C'Aujett or Sneauflayke.

Having said that, the name does autocorrect to 'effing', let's hope technology has improved by the time she becomes a professional.

RayaJambalaya Haha okay!

This would not bother me in the slightest. Only people I'd avoid repeating a name with are siblings. Mums from the same school who you're not even close with is nowhere near a problem. People sometimes have the same name as other people –that's life!

I just see a tower or a burning figure.

Judging the childrens names they already have is it likely they'd pick your chosen name?

When I started my mat leave with my second, I met a lady at toddler group who had recently had a baby girl. I didn't pay any attention to what the baby's name was. A couple of weeks later I'd had my baby and brought her to toddler group. Only then did I discover we'd given her the same name as this lady's baby. For the last 13 years, our girls have grown up together and become best friends. It hasn't mattered in the slightest that they share a first name.

It can be difficult to predict how popularity of names will change with time. There were around 135 girls with my DDs name when she was born 6 years ago. It has become steadily more popular and is now in the top 100.
I think it is fine to use the same name as one of the other mums in your situation.

There is a 9 year old Effie in my dgs class at school but I have never heard of another.

I think you're safe with Effie, I didn't even know that was a name!

FWIW my son has quite an unusual name (40 born in his year) and there is still another one in his nursery class! Just use the name you love and don't worry what anyone else does. They might move away or you might, and then their child having the same name would be irrelevant.