if a celebrity "steals" your baby name

jenerally · December 2008

are you less inclined to use it? Would you go around telling everyone you'd picked out Zuma Nesta Rock WAY BEFORE Gwen did?

Or would you just shrug and use it anyway ... at least you know it'll become more popular and your kid won't be the ONLY one named Violet in her class ...?

Amarie13 · December 2008

So you're telling me that Zuma Nesta Rock is already taken?!? Damn!

::Goes back to the drawing board::

jenerally · December 2008

Amarie13:

So you're telling me that Zuma Nesta Rock is already taken?!? Damn!

::Goes back to the drawing board::

I know! You're screwed! SCREEEEWEDDDD!

Amarie13 · December 2008

Haha! Actually DH and I did like the name Maddox, though we did not come up with it before the Jolie-Pitt crew. I didn't feel comfortable using that name in particular... too high-profile, but I would say for the most part it would be fine!

rouge411 · December 2008

I would say yes if it was a rare or unusual name, but luckily most celebrities and I don't seem to have the same taste in names.

Chrisy-Wyobride · December 2008

Yes I am less inclinded to use it...I was SO into Finn until Julia Roberts named her kid Phineus. I still will consider using it but probably won't. And then I loved my best friend's grandpa's name--Harlow & posted it a few times on the Nest when I was pg w/ #2...well there is No way in hell I am using that name now. I would never want someone to think I copied Nicole Ritchie!

vhab · December 2008

Uh, well, Lisa Marie took my kids name and applied it to a girl, so my kid is so screwed. Mine's older at least. I mean, really, I had NEVER heard of anyone named Finley, until I named my son that, and now I know of three women who have daughters named Finley. Argh!

Mitzie · December 2008

Violet is one of the names I really liked, but screw them I have plenty of other flower names I can use... like umm Hydrangea...let's see them steal that one.

jenerally · December 2008

Mitzie:
Violet is one of the names I really liked, but screw them I have plenty of other flower names I can use... like umm Hydrangea...let's see them steal that one.

lmao. How about Petunia?

paula62776 · December 2008

Apparently Clay Aiken named his son Parker, I'm going ahead with that name anyway. I really don't think I associate with people who follow the details of Clay Aiken's life, at least I sincerely hope I don't, so it shouldn't come up.

tmp-252441187502195 · December 2008

Petunia.. made me smile this evening.. reminds me of Porky's wife.

JAWMIN · December 2008

Here's my baby name list....

https://omg.yahoo.com/news/2008s-quirkiest-baby-names-from-bronx-to-sunday/16317?nc

luckyluvr · December 2008

We don't have celebrities stealing our names; we have tv characters. 1 week before DS was born, Dana on "According to Jim" named her baby Tanner. I wanted to scream b/c even though we didn't know we were having a boy, that was the chosen name. I was afraid people would think I copied the show. Then 1 week before our u/s for #2, a character on General Hospital named her little girl our girl name. DH said it meant we were having a girl. He was right. I guess tv writers are in my uterus!

Roothie427 · December 2008

I wouldn't use the name just because it would be too popular and the main reason I picked out the names that I did is because they are unique.

Once a name is on a tv program or used by a celebrite it just seems to become the most popular.

Violet7 · December 2008

Do people really think Violet is a bad name? It's my MN (family name) and I fully intend to use it as my baby's middle name if I have a girl. I always liked it.

momto1 · December 2008

I loved Hazel for a girl--then Julia had to use it! Ugh....

I think Violet is a great name...and even though Jen and Ben have used it, still don't think it is terribly popular.

My girls name (Lyla) has been in Will and Grace and on General Hospital. But we came up with it waaaaay before it was featured on those shows!! (K-maybe not GH, since it was used for one of the older charaters, and let's face it, I'm not that old...) And I do feel like I have to say when/how we came up with it....but I am still planning on using it. I love it. I love, love, love it.

Our middle name for our girl (Addison) also made popular by the Grey's/ Private Practice character--though we picked it after the street Wrigley Field is on (big Cubs fans here). Again....always going to have to explain...I am sure it really won't matter to anyone but me.

Sxia · December 2008

Eh, we'll use Max, whether or not (I think it was J Lo) used it for her kid. It's normal enough that it's not "Oh, like J Lo's kid". I think Violet falls into that category, as does Parker. Maddox and Pax, not so much. Even Shiloh, or Leon or Knox is arguably not only Jolie-Pittish.

(I liked Angelina and DH said no. Too Hollywood recognizable.)

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