32-year-old older brother refuses to engage with 26-year-old sister’s pettiness over stealing their grandma’s name for her baby, despite him calling “dibs” years ago, the family takes his side

Let's talk about names a bit. There's a lot in someone's name. It's not only a nomenclature attached to a face and body, there's symbolism in names, there's a deeper meaning and even sometimes a long history involved. In some families, first names can go back generations, where everyone from great great great grandparents coming to Ellis Island was a Bobby, to the baby who was born a year ago. Or maybe the name has an origin in its native language that means something, and said person has carried this meaning with them, almost like a suit of armor against evils of the world. Even if we legally change it, there are still people who will always remember us by that name.

In the story below, the protagonist is a man who was close with his grandmother growing up. When she passed away, the whole family knew he would use her name to name his first child. That is until his sister swoops in.

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AITA for refusing to engage with my sister's pettiness where she's trying to use a baby name she and the rest of our family agreed to save for me to use?

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When you get to know someone intimately, their name causes even more of a reaction. You might get chills upon hearing it, or maybe you hear a children's choir singing "Hallelujah." A name is meaningful, and the biggest aspect is that it's with us forever.
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