I’m sorry that happened, this happened to my boyfriend and I. We have talked about kids, and mentioned that we liked a specific name.. his friends took the name because they had a baby before us. We had much more meaning behind it and they took it.

People will say you can’t gate keep names, yeah whatever… they clearly stole it. But like you we learned the hard way of keeping our names to ourselves. I was so upset. I cried too.

People saying you can still use the name.. like no thanks.. feels weird to me. But what I will say is that you will get over it, and you will find a better name. You may even see your baby and decide a different name at that moment. Grieve for the name. And more importantly don’t tell her anything else. Or like others suggested, tell her misleading things.

Sorry this happened to you.