'My sister stole my baby name - I got revenge and she can't stand what I chose'

02 March 2024 , 08:00

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She had the name planned for years (stock image) (Image: Getty Images/Image Source)

Next time you have decided on the perfect baby name for your future child, it might be best to keep it a secret.

Many Brits have a very solid idea of what they want to call their kids, if they ever decide to have them, from a young age. If you grew up prepared and organised, you might even have a list of names saved on your phone that you will one day rely on.

But telling people about these names could lead to an argument, as one woman found out. The fiery exchange started after her sister 'stole' the baby name she had longed hope to use after falling pregnant first. To make things worse, the name was chosen in honour of a childhood friend who sadly died when she was just a teenager..

Before she became pregnant, she shared the name she wanted to use with her sister, who complimented how it sounded and the two didn't speak about it again. However, when her sister gave birth four years ago, she revealed she had used both the first and middle name for her own daughter.

The woman said she was "a little annoyed" that she had stolen the names but "wasn't going to let it stop me from using the name". When she gave birth to her own little girl some five months after, she stuck with her plan to use the name and - with both her and her sister keeping their maiden name - the two cousins have an identical first, middle and last name.

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"Now she's annoyed I used the name too," she said back in 2020. "She told me it was weird that I would use it. "I told her I wasn't going to change the name I had wanted for a long time, that had a deep meaning for me, just because she decided to use it after I told her the name. She said as the first one to have a baby she got dibs. I told her to get over it and it was a name anyone could use."

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After asking if she had been in the wrong to stick with her name choice, others said the blame lied solely with her sister. One commented on Reddit: "She's the a**hole on this. In fact she's a double the a**hole, once for using the name you told her, twice for giving you s*** and saying she named first so she had dibs."

A second said: "You chose it first and she knew that. If she didn't want it to be weird and she knew that’s the name you would go with, she shouldn't have used it." While another added: "Who the hell calls 'dibs' on a name they stole from someone else??"

Who do you think is in the wrong? Let us know in the comments section below

Liam Gilliver