Cousins with the same nicknames?

[Anonymous]

Our second childs name is Jonah and is 2 months, and my SIL and BIL are due in a few months with their fiest. They revealed that they would have named their son Jonah but changed it when they found out they were having a boy. Mind you, we have told everyone our son would be named Jonah when we were pregnant with #1 who turned out to be a girl. SIL told me their boy's name will be Joseph, and will have the same nicknames as our Jonah: Joe, JoJo, Joey. Does anyone else find this odd? We live 1 mile away and they will see eachother often. My daughter is Zoë and we call her Zo. Zo, joe, and Joe... Strange, right? Or am I making a big deal? We aren't going to say anything to them but feel as if they are stealing our little ones thunder.

[Anonymous]

*they changed their baby boy name when they found out WE were having a boy I meant to say

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

One can be Joe the other Joey - this is not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One can be Joe the other Joey - this is not a big deal.

OP here. I'm not going to tell the kid his nickname. He will decide what he wants. So will his friends. Also the last name is the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One can be Joe the other Joey - this is not a big deal.

OP here. I'm not going to tell the kid his nickname. He will decide what he wants. So will his friends. Also the last name is the same.

So what? Stealing your child's thunder? Grow up OP.

[Anonymous]

I have cousins who are very close to each other named Crystal, Kristin, and Christopher. I don't see this as a big deal.

Your kid will presumably have nicknames they pick up from friends, but unless they're in the same school, at home they'll go by whatever you probably called them when they were too little to have an opinion. So pick different "family nicknames" for the kids, or always call them Jonah and Joseph when they're together, and all will go well.

[Anonymous]

You gave away so much information on here I pray your SIL is a DCUM frequent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You gave away so much information on here I pray your SIL is a DCUM frequent.

We are on the west coast but if she sees it I hope she changes his name lmao

[Anonymous]

You are making way too much out of this. For all you know, your kid will hate being called Joe and will go back to Jonah by the time he’s even old enough to know the difference.

[Anonymous]

I grew up with three michaels and three krissy’s amoung my 20 cousins (All on the same side.). It was nbd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up with three michaels and three krissy’s amoung my 20 cousins (All on the same side.). It was nbd.

This is the first new cousin in this family. It will just be the three of them at Grandma's. Nobody else thinks it's weird that they were going to use our baby boy name if we didn't have the baby boy first? Even though we have had this name picked out since we were 19 years old? And they knew this? J

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up with three michaels and three krissy’s amoung my 20 cousins (All on the same side.). It was nbd.

This is the first new cousin in this family. It will just be the three of them at Grandma's. Nobody else thinks it's weird that they were going to use our baby boy name if we didn't have the baby boy first? Even though we have had this name picked out since we were 19 years old? And they knew this? J

DP. I grew up with two cousins named Kendra. To the extent any of the kids appeared to care at family gatherings, it was me being jealous that I wasn’t a Kendra too. They seemed to like having the same name, like they were a special club of just Kendras (not that they were mean about it or anything).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up with three michaels and three krissy’s amoung my 20 cousins (All on the same side.). It was nbd.

This is the first new cousin in this family. It will just be the three of them at Grandma's. Nobody else thinks it's weird that they were going to use our baby boy name if we didn't have the baby boy first? Even though we have had this name picked out since we were 19 years old? And they knew this? J

No, because most people don't care about stupid things like this.

[Anonymous]

And I don't make a fuss about much usually. I refused baby showers for both children, and am super laid back. Sorry if "stealing the thunder" put off the wrong message. I just want my son to feel like an individual, these are two boys born the same year, and they will be going to the same schools unless one of us moves.