Mom Furious After Sister Gives Child Same Name as Her Daughter

A woman’s sister is insisting the woman call her daughter by her middle name since the sister gave her own child the same moniker.

“I named my 2-year-old daughter Indie. My sister gave birth to her first child last month, my niece, and she also called her Indie. The name Indie was not one my sister had mentioned to me before I had my child. My boyfriend and I just really liked the name for our daughter,” the woman wrote on Reddit.

Now, the sister is “unhappy” because there is confusion since both their daughters have the same first and last name.

“She got into a fight with our dad because he calls them Big Indie and Little Indie and he snapped back that he needed something to help him make it clear which Indie he’s talking about. He also told her it will only get worse as they grow up,” the woman continued.

Her sister is furious with her family and upset that everyone is acting like “she did something wrong” by also naming her daughter Indie.

“She then told me I should start calling my daughter by her middle name instead of by her first and that way everyone can be happy. I told her if she didn’t like the fact both girls share the name and that people would come up with ways to differentiate between them then she could use her daughter’s middle name or she could create a nickname if that would be better,” she recalled.

The woman also told her sister she won’t change what she’s been calling her daughter for two years.

“My sister called me selfish. She told me that she had every right to name her child whatever she wanted and I cut her off and said yes, but that it didn’t give her the right to insist I call my daughter something else,” she concluded.

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Users roasted the sister in the comments section.

“She used the same name that you did AND expected YOU to change to suit her. Your family spends a lot of time with each other, so there is always going to be confusion… And there is no compromise to be had here. This is a name. Either one of you will need to change the name you use OR you live with the confusion. There is no middle ground to be had,” one person wrote.

“I don’t think it’s inherently wrong to use the same name as someone else in your family, but you sure as s–t can’t tell the person who used it first that they need to change,” another chimed in.

“Main character vibes,” someone else commented.