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[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

Purely hypothetical: Should you ask a person's permission before naming your child after that person?

Does it change things if you're not necessarily naming the child after the person in question, but you just happen to like a name that someone close to you has? (e.g., You've always loved the name Matthew and want to name your son Matthew, but it has nothing to do with your brother named Matthew.)

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[octobre09.livejournal.com]

I think it depends how common the name is...Like if someone named their kid Emily, I'm not going to assumed they name them after me, so I really don't care.

However if they named their kid Cléa (my kid's name) and I know for a fact that's a rare name and they most likely heard it first from me...Then I would like them to give me a warning. It would kind of bother me but it's not like I own the name so I wouldn't be super upset.