My sister has one DC and we are TTC a first. Sister wants more and probably quite soon. We seem to have very similar taste. She has planned out all the names she likes before she even had her DC and has always spoken about her two names for boys and two names for girls.
What’s the etiquette around it or does it not matter? Some of the names she likes are similar to the ones we do. Just an example, she loves Alex but we quite like Alice.
If our first DC was a girl and we named her Alice, maybe this would make it difficult for my sister if she had a DS to call him Alex because they’re such similar sounding names. Equally, we might have a boy and she might have a girl - meaning it’s all totally irrelevant!
I don’t want to tread on her toes even though nobody ‘owns’ a name. Is it really just first come first served or should you avoid a name if a relative has fleetingly mentioned liking it or a variation of it? :)