please help with a naming "situation"!

[pinkmook]

Hi, just wanted to get some other opinions on the situation we are in WRT baby names.

We are due to have DD in June and would like to call our DD Kitty (shortened form of Katherine) as this was my grandads mums name.

However our neighbours have a 6 yr old ccalled Kitty also. We see quite a bit of them and Kitty and their other DC's play with my DS - they are all in and out of each others houses all the time.

So, would you call your new baby the same name as nieghbours daughter? I'm worried how it will come across and dont really want to pitch up explaiining the connection to our family.

Also, no - one else I have ever met/known in RL has this name so it does seem a bit like we have "copied" them - Oh I know this all sounds very silly but I just wondered what others thought even if you do think IM being a bit silly!

Thanks for reading the waffle!

i will have to try and bump into her now - truly cant be bothered with that convo! Oh well I have til the end of June to bring it up! LOL

I think you should even be considering this a problem. It is a family name, you like it, use it. If she has a problem with it then it is her problem not yours.

TBH you're not going to be neighbours forever are you really?

In 10 years time when you are no longer neighbours you will be kicking yourself for not using it won't you?

sorry should not be considering it a problem

Im so conflicted about it - Im leaning towards agreeing with the people who have said its perfectly acceptable not an issue - but there is part of me thinks she will be annoyed and maybe im being unreasonable???

Well, there is a chance she might be annoyed. However, what's she going to do about it? Egg your house? Stick out her tongue every time you walk past? It's not a name she made up. It's been in the top 100 girls' names since the dawn of lists. There's a good case to be made for you using this name, but really, no need to feel you have to make it. She's not the boss of you! Introduce little Kitty one day in July. She will get over herself.

We have 2 neighbours with sons of the same name.
Kitty a lovely name, tell her its a family name, so no arguments!

I would have thought she might be flattered rather than annoyed. Great minds think alike and all that.

lol at mathanxiety - i wouldnt put it past her

I like the idea of just introducing baby kitty in july LOL!

Our high street has Charlottes at three consecutive houses! Stop worrying.

Pregnancy hormones are creating a problem where none exists.... just tell your kids and hers that the babies name is Kitty - after her great Granny... the message will get through and tbh, even if it doesn't, what the worst that will happen - she'll be a bit from 3 doors down!? Stop ya worryin'