https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:14:39 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1626233 Sat, 10 May 2014 09:40:51 +0000 littlebug 1626233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: I don't know them, so that's cool. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1626191 Sat, 10 May 2014 09:11:00 +0000 swedishfish 1626191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlebug: I have a student with D's name this year. </p> <p>@Mae: same...I would say something if I heard a close family member was considering the same name though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1626188 Sat, 10 May 2014 09:05:52 +0000 bunnylovesbear 1626188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: my thoughts exactly. I wouldn't be happy about it, but I would never confront the friend about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1626022 Sat, 10 May 2014 05:14:19 +0000 Charm54 1626022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't mind...I mean it's not like I invented the name or anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625984 Sat, 10 May 2014 03:14:45 +0000 nana87 1625984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd be a hypocrite if I was offended: dh and I decided on our lo's name before even ttc and it's a family name , but one of my very good friends named her daughter who was born 3 months before ours a very similar name. Oops! We weren't going to change our name choice so now they just have almost the same name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625975 Sat, 10 May 2014 02:19:19 +0000 Applesandbananas 1625975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO and his cousin share a name (it's one's middle and the orher's first. It's a common name and a family name. I don't find it weird. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625372 Fri, 09 May 2014 17:14:04 +0000 Synchronicity 1625372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it would bother me a little, but that might stem from me growing up with three younger siblings who copied everything I did :P I also won't choose very popular names, so it would likely be a little more strange for that reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625366 Fri, 09 May 2014 17:11:51 +0000 sunny 1625366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think its that weird. But then again, my brother and 1st cousin have the same name so it was just a normal part of life? We never had any confusion between the 2! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625340 Fri, 09 May 2014 16:58:25 +0000 mrskc 1625340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't mind at all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625324 Fri, 09 May 2014 16:48:55 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 1625324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it would be weird unless it was a pretty unique name that wasn't a family name for them. </p> <p>I have two friends who named their LOs one of our top contenders for a boy name, but they both live far away and it's a fairly common name, so I have no hesitations to using it if we have a little boy in the future. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625302 Fri, 09 May 2014 16:40:31 +0000 Mommy Finger 1625302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The only way I would think it would be weird is if one of my immediate family members named their child the same as mine. Otherwise, I don't think it's weird at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625175 Fri, 09 May 2014 15:52:18 +0000 mrs. 64 1625175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BakerBee: Now that's just weird. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625167 Fri, 09 May 2014 15:50:17 +0000 JerricaBenton 1625167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would think it was weird (unless it was a family name) because LO's name is very uncommon. It wouldn't make me angry though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1625133 Fri, 09 May 2014 15:33:08 +0000 birdofafeather 1625133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i would probably think it's a little strange at first if it was a close friend, but i love DD's name and don't own it, so it would be fine after a while, i'm sure. i love a variation of one of my BFF's DS's name, but I don't know if I could use it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624910 Fri, 09 May 2014 14:12:31 +0000 ShootingStar 1624910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would think it was kind of weird if they were like "Hey we really like D's name, mind if we use it for our son?" On the other hand, if it was more like "D's a family name for us, just want to let you know it's one of our top contenders" I'd be totally fine with it. I can't tell anyone not to use a name, especially if it has a lot of meaning to them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624883 Fri, 09 May 2014 14:08:01 +0000 reverie 1624883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ehhhh I don't get the big deal honestly. It is a name I am giving my child for their life. I would not be deterred if I thought the best name for him or her was already used. I was going to say I would avoid if it was FAMILY, BUT there are like 93489284 joes on my mom's side and 298439284 dans on my dad's sooooo that wiped out that argument for me. I guess I'm "lucky" that my name choices aren't super popular so it isn't really a concern. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624874 Fri, 09 May 2014 14:03:01 +0000 swurlygurl 1624874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It might bother me for a second, but then I don't think I'd care once I got used to the new baby and their name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624734 Fri, 09 May 2014 13:29:05 +0000 littlebug 1624734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D's name is really uncommon, so yeah, it would kind of bother me. But I'm also really kind of possessive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624714 Fri, 09 May 2014 13:24:33 +0000 Pumuckl 1624714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't mind.<br /> It'd be history repeating ;)<br /> My mom and her BFF both have a daughter with the same name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624704 Fri, 09 May 2014 13:22:16 +0000 MamaMoose 1624704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wouldn't bother me a bit. It would reinforce that we picked a great name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624656 Fri, 09 May 2014 13:10:51 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1624656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd probably be a little miffed at first, but I'd get over it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624651 Fri, 09 May 2014 13:09:42 +0000 rattles 1624651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't mind, but I would find it frustrating if friends/families used a name we'd been talking about before we had a chance to. I wouldn't want them to feel like we were copying! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624200 Fri, 09 May 2014 10:45:37 +0000 kjpugs 1624200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Generally I wouldn't have a problem with it, but her name is so different that it would be rare. I've told a few HB friends and friends who live in other areas they SHOULD use it! I would love to have another Effie to pass stuff with her name on it on to. That being said, the only time I would NOT be ok with it was family, or a friend who is ultra competitive/awkward. If we hung out a lot too I might be less ok with it for Effie, but maybe ok with it for a more common girl name (like Lauren or Amanda was when I was growing up) or more common boy names especially. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624123 Fri, 09 May 2014 10:26:52 +0000 Dandelion 1624123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My boys have common names. Wouldn't bother me a bit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1624110 Fri, 09 May 2014 10:25:20 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 1624110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't care. Ours is a very uncommon name, but a family name. Since DS has been born 2 others have told me it's also a family name for them! So I could see it possibly being used. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1623922 Fri, 09 May 2014 09:36:30 +0000 MrsKoala 1623922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would think it's a little weird. I felt weird enough that I named my son the same name as the son of a girl who I knew in high school who was born only two weeks earlier. Then again, my friends have very different preferences in terms of names so I don't really see it as a potential issue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1623913 Fri, 09 May 2014 09:33:12 +0000 LBee 1623913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a friend who wanted to use my husband's first and last name as her potential son's first and middle name. These both were not common names. We were more just weirded out (we hang out with these people a fair amount) and when my husband said "hey that seems a little weird, right?" she said that he should be honored. They had a girl, luckily. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1623909 Fri, 09 May 2014 09:32:48 +0000 Mae 1623909@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't love it. Especially bc my LO's name is not super common, and especially if they didn't have some independent reason for it (like having it be a family name I think negates my having used it). </p> <p>But at the same time I'd NEVER say anything about it. It would just be one of those things I'd think to myself like "ugh thats annoying" but to the friend I'd be all "hey great minds think alike eh?!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1623901 Fri, 09 May 2014 09:30:56 +0000 lawbee11 1623901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If it was a good friend I think it would be weird/awkward/confusing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/friends-using-your-los-name#post-1623897 Fri, 09 May 2014 09:29:20 +0000 alohaorchid 1623897@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't mind at all, it's not like I own the name </p>