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Would you give your child the same name as your siblings child?
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I could understand if there’s a tradition that first born boys be called James for example, but my friend named her son the same name as her brother in laws child. Boys born a year apart, previous children, no tradition, but she gave hers the same name.
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4 years ago
My friend married into an asian family. Her husband is the first born son and gets treated like royalty. They had two girls then her brother in law had a boy. It was the first male grandchild and now all the attention is on this family. My friend was so pissed off. She had a baby about 8 months later and gave her kid the same name as her brother in laws kid just to piss him off. She is such a bitch.
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4 years ago
Well a lot of family traditions are passed on in the name
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4 years ago
She said besides tradition.
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4 years ago
I have a son name Elijah & My sister in-law named her daughter Elisha 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ They’re 10 months apart..
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4 years ago
They are two completely different names. They don’t even sound similar. Why are you upset?
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4 years ago
I wouldn't. My brother and his fiance have terrible taste in baby names 😂
As does my husbands sister. They're fantastic people, and I love them unconditionally. But their babies have some wonky names. They know my thoughts on this. They also both dislike my baby names.
Who names their actual child Binky, Laura?!
Or Jaxxman, Samantha?!
😂 I love you ladies, and I love my nieces (Jaxxman and Binky are girls folks), but I'm going to use their nicknames.
As does my husbands sister. They're fantastic people, and I love them unconditionally. But their babies have some wonky names. They know my thoughts on this. They also both dislike my baby names.
Who names their actual child Binky, Laura?!
Or Jaxxman, Samantha?!
😂 I love you ladies, and I love my nieces (Jaxxman and Binky are girls folks), but I'm going to use their nicknames.
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4 years ago
Oh man Jaxxman is a girl? That poor thing. The kids will be cruel.
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4 years ago
Yep. Jaxxman is my beautiful niece. In contrast to her name, she's actually quite dainty and graceful. But, yeah. What a name 😂 it's pronounced like jax-min. Like a weird Jasmine.
Everyone calls her by a nickname anyway.
Everyone calls her by a nickname anyway.
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4 years ago
I had a budget called Binky. I miss him 💚
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4 years ago
No my siblings child has an awful name.
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4 years ago
I wouldn't do it, and I wouldn't be ok with my sibling giving a child of theirs the same name as one of mine, either.
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4 years ago
Nah its too close
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4 years ago
Nope, I wouldn't.
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4 years ago
I wouldnt, but i grew up in England and lots of people did it there (i say ‘did’ because i dont know if people still do)... Almost every family, they’d be like ‘our Mark...’ and ‘your Mark...’ in conversation.
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4 years ago
My brother and I have daughters with the same name. She had love the name since she was young. I happen to have my child first. Actually before they even dated. When I heard from someone else she was sad she couldn’t use it I called her up and said don’t be ridiculous use the name there’s no reason whatsoever that you can’t use the same name.
So she did.
So she did.
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4 years ago
Beautiful. My aunties both named their sons the same name. Boys were more than 10yrs apart and my sister has also named her son that name. It is a name that is is translated the same in many languages.
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4 years ago
Thank you someone that realises you don’t own the name and anyone can use it!
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4 years ago
Maybe they just loved the name. My sister was four months ahead of me and named her daughter the name I had picked out. I told her just after the birth that I was using that name and was still going to. She still used the name and so did I.
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4 years ago
If it was a name I absolutely had my heart set on then yes. Especially if you don't see them much. Sharing a name doesn't make either of the kids any less special.
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4 years ago
I get this, but do you think they would mind it? If you knew they would be upset about it, would you still do it?
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4 years ago
I'd give them a heads up early in the pregnancy so they had time to get used to it. I wouldn't just announce when the baby was born and blindside them. Oh and I wouldn't use it if I had no plans to use it until they had a kid. It would have to be a name we'd had in mind before that.
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4 years ago
I wouldn't. But my SIL named her baby the same name as my 6yr old, just with a different spelling. Hubby wasn't impressed and I'm not too thrilled about it either. We now see them much less.
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4 years ago
Did they even tell you? I couldn’t handle that as much as I would try be the bigger person, i just couldn’t understand the rationale and that would eat at me. My neighbour desperately And very close to wanted to naming their child the same as our newborn... but in the end the husband said no because it felt wrong. They told me this after. It didn’t even happen, but I was still a little bothered as it would have been so sudden and weird since the name isn’t common and they didn’t even tell me. I see a little less of them now too, it rubbed me wrong because the intention felt so selfish even though it’s just a name
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4 years ago
Neighbour is a bit different. My friend picked her baby’s name ten years before she had her - so when her friend used it a few months before her daughter was born, she still went ahead with it.
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4 years ago
*** even though it’s JUST a name.
Sorry if you end relationships over a name you are the petty one.
It’s just a name.
Sorry if you end relationships over a name you are the petty one.
It’s just a name.
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4 years ago
Na it's weird
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4 years ago
They lack imagination...also we wouldnt be spending much time with those people anymore....weirdos
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4 years ago
My kids are named after their paternal grandparents
Desmond and Mildred
Desmond and Mildred
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4 years ago
My mums sister named her child the same as me. Im 2 years older. Different spelling though. We saw eachother all the time. I loved having the same name as my cousin.
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4 years ago
No, that is weird!!
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4 years ago
I wouldn’t. There are thousands of names to pick from, literally. Surely they cold find another name they equally love.
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4 years ago
I wouldn’t. My aunt has the same name as her first cousin though - but they lived in different countries so no issue. Same first and last name.
It is different - perhaps she’s thinking of a different nickname? Perhaps they aren’t planning on hanging around with each other much?
It is different - perhaps she’s thinking of a different nickname? Perhaps they aren’t planning on hanging around with each other much?
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4 years ago
I wouldn’t. My siblings have all named their children names that I do like, but not names I would choose for my own children anyway.