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[quote=Anonymous]If the name is relatively common (and presumably the two children won't be super-close in age) I think it's fine.  ... but as suggested before you might want to let your friend know you have chosen the name ahead of the general announcement, or at least make a personal comment about how much you [both] love the name.

Acquaintances whose daughter is "best friends" with my children gave their new baby my daughter's very unusual  name as a middle name.  They didn't say anything to us about it, just sent us the standard birth announcement.  That did feel rather weird and uncomfortable to me since the name is extremely uncommon - fewer than 20 babies in the US are given this name each year.

While I didn't love the way they [didn't] handle it, I understand that the name is not ours and their choice of it was a tribute to our children's friendship.  It just would have been much more comfortable if when sending out the email they had at least put in a personal sentence about how much they love our daughter and her name!

Right now we are on the opposite side of the conundrum: we have chosen the name Beatrix for our new baby, but we don't announce our children's names before they are born.  I am wondering what to say to semi-close friends whom we have known for 20 years but only see half a dozen times a year whose daughter is named Beatrice [Italian].  Though our choice of the name is not related to her at all it does seem appropriate to acknowledge the close link between the names.
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