Baby naming etiquette

A woman is a few months pregnant and tells another pregnant woman in her social circle (almost due, so farther along in the pregnancy) her name of choice and the name is unique. The woman about to deliver "steals" the name and names her baby that.

Is that lack of taste or a compliment?

I wouldn't consider it a compliment. The one woman was clearly looking to give her baby a name that was unique and would stand out; the second woman taking advantage of her later pregnancy and snatching the name is tacky. No one has legal claim to a given name, so she had every right to do that, but it was still tasteless and uncouth on her part.

I'm with Nhaiyel that it was tacky. What she did was show a complete lack of respect for her friend. It would be one thing if the first women had already had her child and the one who took the name also used it for her child but to take it like that is rude and uncouth.

RedBedroom wrote:A woman is a few months pregnant and tells another pregnant woman in her social circle (almost due, so farther along in the pregnancy) her name of choice and the name is unique. The woman about to deliver "steals" the name and names her baby that.

Is that lack of taste or a compliment?

Damn, thats fucked up.

Lack of taste. That's why I wouldn't tell anyone what I would name my baby until it gets here.

Truly tasteless.

That's really shiesty and conniving. Definitely no compliment; it's almost akin to creative theft.

Yeah, classless unless she asked permission.

It's totally tacky and rude. It's pretty much like stealing.