Our first baby due any day now and having a bit of a dilemma over a girl's name (don't know if it'll be boy or girl). Feel a bit silly posting this but it's starting to get to me a bit - please bear with me. For ages dh and I have loved the name Zoe. Back in the summer a uni friend told me about another friend (who I'm not that close to any more, and have been out of touch with for ages) whose wife was also pregnant. I texted him to say congratulations and he replied with the same. Then he announced a month ago that they'd had a baby girl called Zoe. Now I'm agonising over whether we can still use this name if we have a girl, and how he'd feel about it. We're unlikely to see them, or not very often, as we're not that close and they live quite far away. And it's not as if we copied them, but I don't want to make things awkward. If it was a closer friend I would feel differently and choose another name but under the circumstances I just feel that the name is not that unusual and it is up to us what we call our child.
Would be interesting to hear people's thoughts on this.
Of course after all this it could be a boy!