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Baby names get personal fast, especially when two little girls in the same family end up sharing one.

One mom names her daughter after Grandma, but when her cousin already has a Gabriella, would you rethink it or keep the tribute?

The overlap starts feeling awkward once family members notice, especially with both girls likely sharing the same nickname.

See why one sentimental name created twice the family discussion.

AITA for naming my baby after my grandmother?

I had my second daughter a few weeks ago and named her Gabriella.

My cousin’s daughter, who is 1 year older, is also named Gabriella.

For context, this is my grandmother’s name (unrelated to my cousin) so last year when abuela heard about my cousin’s Gabriella, she was so delighted to have a baby with her name

Seeing this, we thought my abuela would be even happier if her great granddaughter was named after her.

But now there are murmurs in the family.

Now, at the most recent family dinner I overheard a couple family members talking about how it was weird that I named my daughter Gabriella, because my cousin’s daughter is already named that.

As far as I know it’s just a name that they like and bears no special significance/family name.

I also saw my cousin and she was acting a bit weird/cold towards me.

Since we have a big Latino family all in the same city (9 babies/toddlers in total) we all see each other quite a bit at holidays, birthdays, etc.

I wonder if they’re upset that it’ll be awkward with the same name.

She lays out her case:

I feel like 1) no one should have a “claim” to a name and 2) if anything, my abuela had the name first on my side of the family, so “Gabriella” has much more meaning to us.

Another relative also suggested using nicknames to differentiate them, but my grandmother goes by “Gabby” so that’s what we would want to use too; however, my cousin already calls her baby Gabby.

AITA for naming my baby after my abuela?

Having two kids with the same name in the same family shouldn’t be a big deal.

Check out what the comments had to say on Reddit:

A lot of people did not see it her way.

Some communication probably wouldn’t have come amiss.

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And then there’s this catch…

She chose Gabriella to honor her grandmother, even though her cousin had already given the same name to her daughter.

Most Redditors agreed nobody owns a name, but several felt insisting on the same nickname would make things needlessly awkward.

Can we just make it easy?

Two Gabriellas can coexist just fine, but the family may need to diversify the nickname department.