Kfm Lunch with EB Inglis: Baby name theft
Lunch with EB Inglis · 17 June 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: Please tell me that this is not a thing. I didn't even know that this Speaker 1: was a thing, but it potentially could be a thing, and it could have been Speaker 1: a thing for quite some time. And that thing that I'm talking about is baby Speaker 1: name theft. I had no idea that that is actually a thing. So apparently there Speaker 1: is an unwritten rule that if you know of a friend that likes a certain Speaker 1: baby name, all right, then you are not allowed to name your child that name, Speaker 1: all right? Now, I know, like that would be the obvious thing, all right, so Speaker 1: that if you have a certain name in mind, people say, like, you know, if Speaker 1: you have a child, what if it was a boy, what would you call it? Speaker 1: If it was a girl, what would you call it? And now maybe that friend Speaker 1: of yours that you've told falls pregnant before you and has a baby before you, Speaker 1: and now they choose that particular name that you liked for their child, and how Speaker 1: would you feel about that? So let me know this as has ever happened to Speaker 1: you, Because apparently more than half of parents say baby name stealing is a no Speaker 1: no. And according to the survey, if parents to be know another couple has plans Speaker 1: for a baby name, then they shouldn't use it. So did anyone steal the name Speaker 1: you chose for your unborn baby, all right? Or did you maybe take the name Speaker 1: that somebody else had in mind and gave it…
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