Unmarried childless woman insists her sister rename her baby because his name is on her baby names list, their parents double down on her demands: 'They said she prides herself on that list'

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Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
Jun 15, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Who could forget the S*x and the City episode where Charlotte finds out that an acquaintance of hers stole the unique baby name that she had planned to use? It's funny because it's kind of an absurd thing to be angry about, but it's a totally relatable and understandable feeling. But as far as I remember, Charlotte doesn't demand her friend change her baby's name, despite how upset it made her. 

Now, imagine if Charlotte had gotten angry that her own sister used a baby name she wanted to use. But what if instead of one name she had been planning since she was 11 years old, it was one name on a list of possible names? Now imagine if Charlotte had demanded she change the name, and her parents backed her up on this. Well, change Charlotte to Jade, and that's exactly what happened in this wild viral Reddit story, 

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    AITA for dismissing my sister saying I need to rename my son because it's on her baby list and telling my parents she better buy the rights for names if she wants to stop people using them?
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    This is so petty but maybe I went too far. I (26f) have an older sister Jade (28f) who is not in a relationship, is not pregnant and is not planning to have kids anytime soon. While I had my son a few days ago. I'm not close to my family. There's a very big golden child thing with Jade and my parents really should have stopped at their one perfect darling kid (what they call her) because I got the short end of the stick with them always.
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    So when they found out my son's name is Finnick, Jade came and told me I could not call him Finnick and needed to rename my son because Finnick is on her baby boy name list so she's going to use it one day and not me. I laughed in her face and told her to leave and dismissed her request by saying she had no authority in this.
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    My parents decided to jump in the next day and they told me I should listen to my sister and choose another name to be a good sister to Jade. They said to think about how Jade would feel and she prides herself on that list. I decided to bring some snark into this and my response was simply that if Jade wants to own the rights to names then she better get rich fast and buy those names because otherwise she cannot stop people from using the ones on her list, not even me. For the record, I know it
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    My parents started to freak out over this and basically told me I was being a bully saying things like that and how dare I dismiss Jade. I threw them out too. And what followed was texts from Jade and my parents saying I had no reason to treat them so rudely. I blocked them. I might be done. But did I go too far? AITA?
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    PowerfullyWeak · 6 hr. ago ΝΤΑ If you looked over your sister's list and told her certain names were off limits because they were on YOUR list, would she offer you the same benefit? Of course not.
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    This is the action of a child who was given special treatment by your parents and never told "no" in life. She grew up into an adult who doesn't seem to comprehend that there are other people in the world and you cannot dictate the "terms" of another person's life.
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    You name your baby whatever it is you wish to name them. You tell your sister that she survived the millions of other people having the same name as her future baby, so she'll survive yours if you happen to choose that name.
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    lukibunny 5 hr. ago edited 1 hr. ago Or better yet. Tell them that Jade is on your list and she should be a good sister and change her name in case you have a daughter next.
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    Ok-Knowledge9154.4 hr. ago NTA tell them it doesn't matter what you named your baby because none of them will be in their life or yours... You're the one with the power now, use it! Grandma and Grandpa can bow and kiss the ring so to speak, starting with a big fat apology! And your sister can go play her stupid games elsewhere!
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    kendall 3 hr. ago I'm the kind of petty who would find out the names on the list and then use as many of them as I can for my kids, I'm talking hyphenated names, multiple middle names, full on John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt type I'm kidding, of course, but only because I would love my children too much to do that.
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    captwombat33. 5 hr. ago There is a chance the sister never has a child. After 20 years of IVF my wife and I weren't fortunate enough to be blessed with a child. So maybe the sister ends up in the same place as us, you just never know.
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    justloriinky. 5 hr. ago Or her partner may absolutely hate the names on her list.
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    teanailpolish . 5 hr. ago Bold of you to think she would allow her partner a say in the names since she thinks she can control her sister's baby name
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    emosaves. 4 hr. ago yup. "Emily" was on my girl name list since i was a kid, my brother knew that. he had his one and only child 13 years ago, and named her Emily. i was a bit miffed but at the same time a bit honored that he picked a name he knew i liked so
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    much. turns out, i only had boys so it didn't matter anyway, and now that my brother is gone, his daughter's name means even more to me
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    . Tattedtail 6 hr. ago If you didn't know it was on her list, then NTA. If you did know and used it anyway... I personally still think NTA, but I know some people get really attached to their lists of names. Also, Jane "prides herself on that list"?? Does she not have anything else going for her?
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    dfwagent84. 6 hr. ago She gets a whole list? I could see carving out one name. But a whole list? That's crazy
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