2nd Trimester

For those of you who already have chosen a name...

...or have a fairly short list...

Do you get upset/annoyed/whatever when you see someone else on the boards deciding on that name?

So far I've not seen anyone mention my favourite name for a girl (or a boy, for that matter, hmm)... but I keep seeing Samuels popping up on the 0-6month boards. My son's name. :( I thought it wasn't that common of a name! Bleh.

Re: For those of you who already have chosen a name...

  • I'm not sure I've seen anyone else with Luke...but I'm not the only person who can name my child that, so I don't have a problem with other people choosing it!
  • Oh, I know no one has rights to a name, it just kind of irks me. I doubt they saw my son and thought "OH HEY, I like that name!" and then used it, but still. I'm a very possessive person, lol.
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  • The way I see it is that unless you invent a name...someone is going to share that name.  If you love it, use it! 

    When I named my daughter Madison...no one was named Madison!  Then everyone was named Madison!  It made me realize that Madi is my Madi and no matter who else had that name she was special to me...and that was that.

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  • imagemariahcohen:

    The way I see it is that unless you invent a name...someone is going to share that name.  If you love it, use it! 

    When I named my daughter Madison...no one was named Madison!  Then everyone was named Madison!  It made me realize that Madi is my Madi and no matter who else had that name she was special to me...and that was that.

    This!

    My mom said that when she named me back in the early 80s, Sarah was not a popular name.  I ended up having at least 2 other Sarah's in my class every year in school... You can't change what other people are going to do, and you shouldn't change what you want to do because someone else might use the name.  If you love it, use it!

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    Oh, I know no one has rights to a name, it just kind of irks me. I doubt they saw my son and thought "OH HEY, I like that name!" and then used it, but still. I'm a very possessive person, lol.

    LOL that is how I felt!  There was even a girl in the paper when Madi was a year that had her same middle and last name (sp differently)! It freaked me out!  But I had to reel in my inner scorpio and move on!  :)

    BTW Sammy is a cutie pie!

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  • I don't have my name posted, but I know they aren't copying. It is a strange thing with names, a lot of people tend to think of them at once. There is a word for this in social psychology but I can't think of it!

    A few years ago I thought of the names Cadence and Marley for girls. I had NEVER heard either name before EVER, and didn't mention them to anyone except DH. Now these names have become pretty popular.. I have no idea why, except other people were somehow thinking the same thing...

    If you really want your child to have a unique name I guess it is a good idea to see what other people on boards are naming babies, because it seems to happen all at once and you can't tell from looking at the names from the last year or year before.?

  • Nope. We didnt pick our name because we thought no one else would have it, we picked it because we liked it.

    I mean I am a Mary who went to catholic school and was one of 7 or 8 Mary's and I turned out just fine...well I cant blame my problems on there being too many other girls with my name!

  • I haven't seen anyone that will be using the same name as my baby whether we have a boy or a girl. Even if I did, it wouldn't bother me because either name we are going to choose will be chosen for sentimental reasons. DH on the other hand would be upset/annoyed.
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    Nope. I have loved the name Breyden for years now, even before it became really popular. DH's name is Brenden and we like that for a boy..but we agreed we didn't want a Jr. I know a lot of people bash the whole, Brayden, Aiden, Caden theme - but I don't care. I will admit I know some one IRL who got knocked up by a Brandon and named her son Breadon. I felt robbed...haha. Our girl name is Baylee...I haven't seen that much on the boards. Again though I have seen people bash the Caylee, Baylee, Rylee theme...and I don't care.
  • That hasn't happened with ours but we picked a fairly unique name, so I really don't expect to see it. However, I think maybe I would feel good that I picked a name that other people like, too? But I can also see the competitive, jealous, territorial thing popping up too...
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  • No, but I will tell you what does bother me, when people tell me our girl name is a "dog's name." We are most likely going with Molly and while everyone is entitled to their opinion, I wish they would keep this to themselves if they think it is a dog's name. I think it is so rude and 3 people now (including my mother) have said it.
  • nah - I don't really care.  I don't know y'all in real life so its not like we will have a bunch of kids at school with the same name!

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  • I haven't seen anyone else post the name we are using. ?It's not a very commonly used name, but it is one that everyone knows. ?Out close friends actually have a daughter with the same name. ?We asked them how they would feel if we used it and they were beyond flattered! ?As pp's have said, even if the name we chose was common, we would still use it because it's a name we love (and it was not an easy task for us to find a girl's name that we both loved!!).

    By the way, if we were having a boy, his name would have been Sam. ?:)?

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  • It doesn't bother me. We chose the name because it's a family name for DH, plus we love it. Finding another girl named Ruby here or there isn't going to make us like it any less.
  • We haven't shared our names AT ALL (sorta).  We haven't even spoken them to each other since we decided.  I have only sort of kind of shared our little boy's name with one bumpie, and only hypothetically...Embarrassed  I trust she won't tell DH's or my families... or the rest of the world.  I only told her because she was considering the same first name and was trying to come up with a NN for it, so I offered her ours. 

    We are still keeping our girl name secret because we want to use it if #2 is a girl.  I've never EVER seen anyone choose this name, which I find odd since its not at the complete bottom of the name pool.  (It's a family name on my side)

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    It really doesn't bother me to see anyone use the name Emma....now if its the exact same, Emma Faith, then I get curious to see how they came up with it! I know that Emma is a very popular name so I expect several others to be named it as well!
    and the greatest of these is love......2/10/07 David Noah joined us 08/08/09 Proud BE mommy! Colbie Faith joined us 05/20/11!
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    Oh I hear ya! 

    Sure, no one has rights to a name and blah blah blah but it still bums me out!  Not when I see 'our' name on the boards (or maybe because I haven't seen it) but friends of MH just had twin girls and used our name.  It was one of those WTF?! moments lol 

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    imagemariahcohen:

    The way I see it is that unless you invent a name...someone is going to share that name.  If you love it, use it! 

    When I named my daughter Madison...no one was named Madison!  Then everyone was named Madison!  It made me realize that Madi is my Madi and no matter who else had that name she was special to me...and that was that.

     

    Exactly this!

    And my Madison is 13 years old :)

  • we have a 3 name list:

    Noah Patrick

    Leah Patricia

    Samantha Patricia

    It wouldn't bother me if someone else used them.

  • On the boards? No. IRL? Yes.
  • Nope, and it wouldn't bother me if one of my friends named their child the same name either. I just don't really think you get dibs on a name.
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    imagemariahcohen:

    The way I see it is that unless you invent a name...someone is going to share that name.  If you love it, use it! 

    When I named my daughter Madison...no one was named Madison!  Then everyone was named Madison!  It made me realize that Madi is my Madi and no matter who else had that name she was special to me...and that was that.

     

    Exactly this!

    And my Madison is 13 years old :)

    LOL mine is 16!  :)

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  • Not really. The only way I'd get upset is if our choices become incredibly popular, which I don't really foresee happening.
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    Doesn't bother me at all.   It's one of those things that when you name your child or think of a name, you then start hearing/seeing it everywhere.  I honestly didn't think Olivia would become that popular and I chose it partly because I hadn't seen it much - but look at it now!!  It's within top 5 on most popularity lists!!!    I don't worry about it, because it's completely out of my control:)
  • No one on the boards have chosen my name.  I am keeping it a secret though besides to my family/friends.  Some people at work know, but other than that- I'm keeping it hush hush.

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  • imageK-I-S-S-I-N-G:
    No, but I will tell you what does bother me, when people tell me our girl name is a "dog's name." We are most likely going with Molly and while everyone is entitled to their opinion, I wish they would keep this to themselves if they think it is a dog's name. I think it is so rude and 3 people now (including my mother) have said it.

    That's horrible!  Molly is my favorite cousin's name and I love it!  Good choice.

  • I've only seen one or two other people on the boards pick Evan but it doesn't bother me because the name has very special meaning to me and DH. Even if I saw 100 people in one day decide on Evan I would still love it and it wouldn't take away from how special it is! :)

    As for the girl name I had picked out - Keira - a coworker just had a baby girl in March and used the name after hearing me say it was our girl name. I was not bothered by it only because the other names she had picked out were hideous and sounded completely made-up so I was happy she gave her daughter what I consider to be a beautiful name. LOL

  • I just saw my girl name in someone else's signature.  I was going to page her and say, "YAH! we both picked the coolest name!" (She's not my bff or anything, doesnt even live in same town, so I think it's pretty cool), but I didn't know if she would share my sentiment so I decided against it.
  • imagethatgirlang:
    On the boards? No. IRL? Yes.

    This. 

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