Ok so my son's name is Nathan. well my niece in law had their baby back in oct. and what does she decide to name her son.....Nathan. They had thought about using the name David but decided there were 2 many people in our family named David. Ok, there are 2 and one is in his 50's and the other one is my nephews age, 19. So instead of using one of the thousands of names out there she decides to use nathan as well, so now we have 2 Nathan's in the family only 3 years apart. And our family is pretty big and we get together for all the holidays, and we have a birthday party to get together for about once a month almost. At first she said they would just call him something else. Ok so what else is there to call him? Some of my family including me sometimes call my little boy Nate for short but that would be about the only thing you could call someone named Nathan, but not that it matters because they still ended up calling him Nathan anyway.
Ok well i got over that., no big deal. But now I'm pregnant again and have ALWAYS wanted a little girl that I would name Kaitlyn. Well my sister called me one day and asked me if I had ever told my neice in law what girl name I had picked out if I ever had a daughter. I was like yeah. She said well your gonna love this. (We'll just call my neice in law M) So she says M was here earlier talking about how they are gonna start trying for another baby in about 3 years and if it's a girl she will be naming her Kaitlyn. And my sister told her, well you do know if Hope has a girl she's naming her baby Kaitlyn. She (M) was like yeah I know but I will spell mine different....Ok, so how does spelling the name make it difference when your calling the kids name out loud, and how does she even know how I was planning on spelling it anyway?
I mean I won't find out the sex til next month, & I may end up having another boy, and when she finally does have another baby she may too, so I may be mad over nothing. BUT it's the fact that for like 10 years I have wanted that name and when i had my son i knew right away that if he had been a girl he would have been kaitlyn, and it took me a few days to come up with a boys name. So this time I was like I really hope I get my girl so I will get my little Kaitlyn Elizabeth. And now just knowing that even if i do have a girl and use Kaitlyn and she has a girl in the next few years it won't stop her from taking that name too. I mean you would think she would want her kids to have a name no one else in our family has. I have always loved the name Dylan but then my uncle had a son and named him Dylan so i of course I didn't want to use it. But it's just frustrating that she can't come up with her own names for her kids without copying me. I mean for god's sake even her dog is named Rocky, same as my dog! I'm sure I'm just horomonal right now but I'm really ticked off over this.
Wow! I would be so mad!! I had that happen to me actually...my cousin new I wanted to name my son(if I ever had one)...Matthew...and she took the name right away from me! It was soooo obnoxious. They said they were naming him Jeremy,then the day he's born,they switch it to Matthew. So screwed up! Whatever..I am having a boy this time around,and his name won't be Matthew. I totally understand where your coming from with the "why would someone want to name their baby a name someone else in the family already has" thing lol. My family is very close,we see eachother about once a week prob. My dad is one out of eleven children,so it's a huge family. I don't even understand why people pick the same name as someone in the family,I really don't! I really hope you have a girl,and can name her Kaitlyn. And if your niece has one too,and names her Katlyn,well then she's just going to look like an ass! Don't worry about it..maybe your neice will change her mind. That's ridiculous though,I would for sure be mad.
My friend just had a baby and named him Dominic...we were going to name our baby Dominic. I don't care if she had the name, we liked it before we knew she had even picked it.
However...we don't tell people the names we pick for this exact reason. So they don't take them first. We are naming our son Kayden Benjamin. We've had it picked out for years but now that 1,000's of Kaydens were popping up we thought about Dominic and a couple of others but decided we've liked the name for so long we'll stick with it. We never told anyone we liked it. I'm 22 weeks pregnant and we JUST told people last week what his name will be.
i told an ex friend what i had picked out for a future girl's name... and a few months later she got a dog and named her dog that.... nice huh?
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i wanted to name my dd, if she were a boy, Aden and my cousin had a baby about 5 months after me and named her son Aiden...she lives in CA and i thought about using it, since i have seen her once in the last 10 years, but i decided not to but i was really mad when i found out because i did tell family my baby names...it sucked but i have a better name now that i'm not telling til my baby is named!
You know if it was just that someone named one of their kids the same as your kid I would say it happens sometimes cause some people like the same names but I have to say your situation kind of ticks me off. She is trying to be you and apparently live your life. I would tell her I am naming my baby something else and not say anything until you have to and tell the rest of your family not to either. It's to bad that she isn't already pregnant so that she would end up changing the babies name. I am terribly sorry your going through this.
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I would be angry, too!!!! My first born is named Maddox, he's 2. A girlfriend of mine from high school just had a baby a couple months ago -she named him Maddox, too. Very annoying. I knew she loved the name, didn't know she'd actually use it! I thought that it would be cool to hang out & have play dates, but not after she stole my kids name! lol
Also.. this is a weird lil story you may like. My fiance has this old acquantince (spellling??) from high school...and by mere coinsedence the acquantince & us both named our 1st born sons Maddox. (We NEVER see this girl) My fiance ran into her one day & they were laughing about the funny coinsedence bc it's SUPPOSED to be a unique name. lol Well, they got talking and he told her that when we get ready to have our 2nd baby -if it's a boy, we're naming him Kingston. *as if to forewarn her jokingly. --well she got pregnant first & named her son .....Kingston! Annoying, right? Well, a month or so later AFTER she had the baby, I got pregnant... with a boy... and I barely know this chick at all & the name was MY idea as far as I'm concerned, so I named him Kingston anyways. THANK GOD the kids won't be going to the same school. So we have 2 boys named Maddox & Kingston -and so does this other girl. It is frustrating, especially people who know her & us both. "What are your kids names" -"Maddox & Kingston" -"OHH.. Hey that's Emily's kids' names!!!" LOL.. whatever.
There are only 3 grandchildren (so far!) in the family. My twin boys are named Jesse, and Jacob. My SIL whined forever saying she wanted the names Jessica, and Jacob... UM yeah right because before she wanted Isabelle, and Alexander? So she is just a pain in butt even MIL told her to shut up bc she was full of bologna. Anyway so SIL finally had a baby, and named him Jaden. I was thinking OH GREAT how cheesy!? Jacob, Jesse, and Jaden ICK! I already was not too fond of my boys' names both sounding so similar (DH picked Jacob at the last minute after his grandfather passed away). Eventually I got over it... I also have a cousin who named his baby Leah, and two months later my other cousin named her daughter Leah? lol I thought she was nuts! Its not really a big deal because kids don't usually care about those things.
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on Apr. 1, 2009 at 4:48 PM