Baby Name "Stealing"

We all know I am way too into all things baby for a person who is not a mom, and not even pregnant. So I get bored and look up baby names online...no big deal right. Maybe it's the girl scout in me that thinks "always be prepared". I actually looked at my calendar today & realized that we are going to ttc in 8 months. So depending on how long that takes, it couldn't hurt to have a few ideas ready to go.

I have been googling baby names recently just for something to do to kill time. I was kind of surprised to find many message boards on different sites full of women complaining that someone had stolen the name they had picked out for their baby. I was very interested and read quite a few of them. They all go something like this. Woman #1 is pregnant. She & her partner agonize over the name of their baby and finally hand pick the perfect name. Then she tells woman #2 who is a friend or family member who is also pregnant. Woman #2 has her baby first and guess what happens? She uses the exact name that woman #1 picked!

I never really thought of it as "stealing" technically, but I guess it could be in certain situations. Obviously you can't exactly own a name before the baby is born. Let's say two sisters are pregnant at the same time and one tells the other the name she plans on using. If the other sister has her baby first & gives the baby that name while fully knowing she is taking it away from the other, that's totally stealing and they have every right to be royally pissed off. If in the same situation, both sisters just happen to be thinking of the same name but they don't talk about it before hand and then one sister uses the name, that just plain sucks but you can't really be mad about it.

Being pretty much the last person out of my family & friends to have kids, I have accepted the fact that some people may get to a name I like before I do. That's just the way it goes. If you are thinking your name is so great, chances are there are other people who think so too. Hate to break it to you but if you're in love with the names Ava or Madison for a girl and Aiden, Caden, Jayden, Brayden, etc for a boy...get used to the fact they will have a bunch of friends with the same name. On the other side of the spectrum, little Jude and Eliza have quite a good chance of going their entire lives and never meeting someone with the same name which is pretty cool. I have always said I will not use a name in the top 10 and still plan on sticking to that. My hubby and I have names that are normal yet not very common which is what I would like to try & go for with our kids.

My current favorite girls name is not even in the top 100 so hopefully it's not on anyone else's radar. Not only is it my favorite, I literally can not think of any other girl's name I like. My current favorite boy name is in the top 20, however 2 of my backups are between 50 and 80 and my last backup is also not in the top 100.

So I guess the question is, if you were pregnant & worried about your name being "stolen" there are 2 things you can do, which would be better?
1. Tell everyone you possibly can that name so they all know you are planning to use it.
2. Keep it a secret so nobody hears the name & then falls in love with it for their own kid.

Parents Just Don't Understand...How to Name Their Kids

So I was trying to think of something interesting to post today...Since I only have one day I'd better make it good! Then it came to me...weird baby names. I was thinking about all the celebrity babies born so far this summer and it seems like one name is wierder than the next...like it's some kind of competition. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying everyone should name their kid Michael or Jennifer. Wait I think I'm back in the 80's...I mean Aiden or Madison. (Not that there is anything wrong with those names at all!)

What I am talking about is parents who get creative...or a little too creative. I like interesting and different sounding names...such as Eliza. AWESOME!! Because it is an actual name. If you have a child and give them a really cool, different, interesting name-then more power to you for being creative! This is not what I am referring to. If your child has a name that is an actual name - I am not talking about you!

I have not really critiqued the names of most celebrity kids born so far this year - Harlow Madden, Honor Warren, Sunday Urban, and even Knox Jolie Pitt. These could be classified as actual names, Fine. But the last straw was the other day when some guy from General Hospital actually named his son Peanut!!! Seriously...are you kidding me? How much is this kid going to get beat up? Who is going to take him seriously in a job interview? There should be some kind of rules about stuff like this.

Here are some actual celebrities' boy names: Kal-el (aka Superman), Free, Spec Wildhorse, Audio Science, Pilot Inspektor, Kyd, Sage Moonblood, and Pirate.

And here are some actual celebrities' girl names: Camera, Fifi, Moxie, Diva Muffin, God'iss, Dixie Dot, and Jagger.

And don't think it's just celebrities who are this wacky...when my niece was born, my sister in law was sharing a room with another woman who also had a baby girl. The parents thought it would be a great idea to name this child Magi. No not Maggie! The middle part of the word IMAGINE. Pronounced like Majj-ie. I heard that people from the hospital actually tried to convinve them not to name her that but it didn't work. There is a 3 year old named Magi somewhere in New Jersey.

Maybe when it's time to name your baby, you will remember this post and realize that maybe Peanut or Diva Muffin isn't the best idea. Please have some mercy on your child :)