'He’s told friends I’m "undermining his kid’s name legacy"': 30-year-old new father tells his friend that she is being disrespectful for not re-naming her cat after the couple gave their baby the same name, saying that they "claimed [the name] first"

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Jun 18, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

We don't know if you have noticed, but when it comes to naming our cats… we like having a little fun with it. People often give their cats hilarious names, like Box or Newspaper, or we give completely cringeworthy names to our cats, like Baby Jesus or Rue McClawdahand & Sal Minmeow. It's one of the two for cats - they either get a hilarious, unhinged, silly name… or we give our cats weirdly human names, like Sally or like Jason or… like Milo.

Either way, it's funny. And we never thought that it could cause any issues. Your cat has the name that it has, and whichever one it is, it does not affect anyone else. Right? Well, that's not what this person's friends think. Despite the fact that Milo the cat has had his name for four years, apparently, suddenly, because these friends decided to name their human baby Milo as well, the cat is not allowed to have that name anymore. According to these friends. We think that they are being ridiculous.

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"[Am I wrong] for refusing to rename my cat after my friend’s baby because “he claimed it first”?"

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Uh… no. This is silly. This friend's behavior is absolutely ridiculous. And we would like to believe that your mutual friends also understand that. Just because he has been telling them that what you are doing is “disrespectful” doesn't necessarily mean that they agree with him. At least we hope so.
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That about sums up our thoughts on the matter. Why should the cat's name be changed? The cat has had this name far longer than this itty bitty human. If anything, the human should change it. Or realize that it is an honor to have the same name as this meowjestic feline.
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