Having the same baby name as a friend

[Jaexo]

Hi everyone,
I just needed some advice on what to do, if anyone can help. Me and my friend got pregnant around the same time, she found out she was pregnant in April I found out in July, we both decided to find out the gender and we both are having girls.
I’ve had a name I’ve always wanted for a girl, it’s quite rare and I’ve wanted it ever since I’d heard it when I was a little girl, during a conversation a few years ago I’d mentioned the name and she said that she’d always wanted to call her daughter that when she had a daughter too, we had a mutual understanding that if we were to have baby girls they would both have the same name. When we found out we were both having girls so close this remained the case, we were both fine with the other using the name and both our daughters being named the same thing.
The thing is she’s now given birth to her daughter and as much as I love the name and understand that we have a mutual agreement that we can both use the name, it feels strange to name my baby girl the same name. But I’ve always wanted it, for much longer than me and my friend have known each other and there’s no other names I like. I’m due to give birth very soon and already have things with my baby girls name on, how can I stop feeling strange, and like I’ve ‘copied’ my friend even though we’ve both known the entire time our daughters would be named the same thing?

Congratulations! Hope you and your baby daughter are doing well.

Thank you so much! ☺️

Congratulations. It’s a pretty and rather unusual name. A close friend and I had our first DGD born about the same time and given the same not particularly common first name and this was regard as a sign of our children’s good taste and something to celebrate.
I hope you got a great first photo of Alora inher named clothing!

In my group of friends, 2 boys have the same name and 3 of the girls have the same first or middle name. My child is one of them. They’re nice names, were similar people, so no wonder we liked similar names. It’s not a problem, the kids liked it when they were little, they’re still close and it’s never been a problem.

I don’t think it matters either esp they are going to different nursery and schools etc - you’re not going to hang out that often with others. As long as you are both comfortable with it! congrats on the new baby! I know another baby coincidentally called Alora also so maybe it is getting more popular

Ds and my friend's ds born 6 week apart have the same name. Never been an issue. A very common name for boys.