'I gave my son the same name as my nephew after my brother and sister in-law stole it'

A woman said she gave her son the same name as her nephew after her brother and sister-in-law 'stole it' from her.

The new mom had her heart set on giving her son a traditional Irish name as her husband comes from Ireland. She said they agreed to name their future son Oisín, which means little deer or fawn in the Irish language, when they first began dating .

She said her brother and sister-in-law, who do not have Irish heritage, gave their son the same Irish name .

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Posting on Reddit , she said: "My brother and his wife has as much right to name their child whatever they want. I do not own my name. I have no right to dictate to my brother what he names his kid.

"With that in mind, my husband's has a traditional family name that I love. Basically, since he and I were dating and started discussing our future we agreed that our son would have that name - Oisín.

"My husband is Irish. Not in the Boston, my great great great grandfather came over in the 1800s kind of way. In the born in Galway kind of way.

"Neither my family or my sister in-law have any other connection to Ireland. She got pregnant right around when I did and her son was born two months before ours. They named my nephew Oisín Miguel."

The woman, who welcomed her son soon after her nephew's birth, said she told her brother and sister-in-law about her son's name before he was born.

She said: "When my son was born we named him Oisín Daniel. Like I had told her (my sister-in-law) we would be doing. She has flipped out that two cousins will have the same name .

"She is trying to insist we call him by his middle name or change his name. My mom is staying neutral but she was very surprised that my brother gave his son an Irish name he knew I was planning on using.

"My husband's family thinks the whole thing is hilarious. My family thinks my sister in-law is a weirdo."

Social media users said the new mom did the right thing by giving her son a name she loves despite her sister-in-law's wishes. One said: "She doesn't own the name, and, if she's going to pretend that Moses had a third tablet saying that people own names, then she's admitting she was completely in the wrong to give her child a name she knew you wanted to use for yours."

Another said: "Anyone can use a name. That means even after she used a name that meant nothing to her, but so much to you and your husband, it's still OK to use that name.

"You didn't get mad when she took the name you planned on using."

And another said: "No one has the rights to a name, but honestly if your sister-in-law knew you were going to do this, it's her fault that she chose the same name and chose to get upset about it."