{"id":190012,"date":"2023-12-21T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=190012"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:27:20","slug":"im-furious-that-my-friend-called-her-baby-after-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/lifestyle\/im-furious-that-my-friend-called-her-baby-after-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I&apos;m furious that my friend called her baby after me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I&#8217;m furious that my friend called her baby after me without asking permission &#8211; but people say I&#8217;m entitled and don&#8217;t own the name<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Taking to Reddit, the woman from the US said she&#8217;d drifted apart from old pal\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Most popular baby names of 2023 revealed\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman has been branded XX after taking issue with a friend naming her baby after her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking to the US social media site\u00a0Reddit&#8217;s\u00a0Am I The A*****e?\u00a0thread the woman named Mia explained that her friend has named her daughter Amelia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But she plans on calling her Mia for short, and it&#8217;s not gone down well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I found this odd as my name is Mia,&#8217; the woman said. &#8216;I felt as if she were naming her child after me and we didn\u2019t feel close enough for that, plus she didn\u2019t even ask. I said something to a mutual friend of ours who told me they also found it odd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Redditors did not rush to Mia&#8217;s defence, branding her &#8216;egotistical&#8217; and were perplexed that she was so bothered considering their lack of closeness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/21\/11\/79208801-12889423-image-a-3_1703159158535.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Two female friends sitting on sofa and arguing with each other (stock image)<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the situation, she began: &#8216;I had a friend in my early 20s, Melinda. She was always a little odd, but we remained friends for a while. Were bridesmaids in each other\u2019s weddings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We grew apart over the next decades as our lives took different turns.\u00a0\u00a0We did stay in contact via the odd text and\u00a0Facebook\u00a0post. She attended my virtual baby shower back in 2021.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Recently Melinda has welcomed a baby girl named Amelia, or Mia for short.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her friend continued: &#8216;I didn\u2019t say anything at first. Then I saw Melinda with her husband and the baby at another friend\u2019s party. She was showing me the baby and I half-joked \u201cyeah, my namesake\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She gave me an odd look and I said \u201cher name is Mia\u2026I\u2019m Mia\u201d. Melinda said her name was Amelia and Mia was a nickname, while my full name is just Mia. I said I understand, but she still had to have named her after me, saying it was odd but cute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Melinda got a weird look on her face and said \u201cNo, we named her after (her husband)\u2018s mother\u201d. I nodded and she was clearly annoyed. She asked why I assumed I named the baby after her. I said it was just a weird coincidence and seemed like something she would do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Melinda said: \u201cYou\u2019re not important enough for me to name a baby after\u201d. I told her that was rude and she said \u201cSo is trying to imply she\u2019s odd because her baby and I have the same name\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Our mutual friends feel I shouldn\u2019t have brought it up at all. Some feel that in spite of that, she took it too far by saying I\u2019m not important enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Responses were overwhelmingly critical and it was determined that Mia was in fact the a******&#8217;, with many finding her entitled for feeling ownership over a popular name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/21\/11\/79208913-12889423-image-a-5_1703159187272.jpg\" height=\"554\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Redditors branded this woman &#8216;egotistical&#8217; for taking offence when a non-closer friend named her child after her nickname<\/p>\n<p>One user said: &#8216;Why do so many people on Reddit think they have some kind of weird ownership of names? You&#8217;re not the only Mia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mia isn&#8217;t even that unusual of a name; it&#8217;s like the 8th most common name for a baby girl right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Spoiler: if a friend picked a name because of you, they&#8217;d tell you. That she didn&#8217;t, and that you&#8217;ve grown apart should be a big indication that it had nothing to do with you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You don&#8217;t own the name, so she doesn&#8217;t need to be &#8220;close enough&#8221; to you to decide to use it as a nickname, regardless of the reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The world does not revolve around you. Why are you upset that she thinks you&#8217;re not important enough in her life to name a baby after you when you also think that?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You literally noted that you&#8217;re not close enough to each other for that, so you should be glad that she confirmed she feels the same way&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another bluntly said: &#8216;OP has main character syndrome&#8217;, and a different user confirmed the ubiquity of the name: &#8216;My neighbor is Amelia but often gets called Mia as well. It\u2019s not like it\u2019s a super unheard of name, she is being super egotistical about it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And a different user joked: &#8216;I named a cat Mia back in 2000. 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