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Zahna Eklund

'My sister refuses to call my daughter by her real name - it's so rude'

Everyone has different tastes when it comes to baby names, and sometimes the name you pick for your child can cause upset among other members of your family - even if it seems to be a perfectly innocent moniker.

And one mum has found out the hard way that she and her sister don't see eye-to-eye when it comes to names because her sibling has flatly refused to call her niece by her real name, opting instead to use a variety of options that are similar but not quite right.

The mum explained her daughter's name is Rosie, but her sister views the name as a nickname rather than a legal one, so whenever she picks up personalised gifts for her niece, she buys ones with names such as Rose, Rosemary, and Rosalie printed on the front - despite none of them being the child's name.

She's sick of personalised items that have the wrong name on them (stock photo) (Getty Images/Tetra images RF)

In a post on Reddit, the mum wrote:" I gave birth to mine and my husband's first baby in June. We named her Rosie.

"My sister, ever since we announced our daughter's name, has purchased personalised stuff with the names Rose, Rosemary, Rosalie and Roseanne [on them]. But never her actual name. Our daughter's full legal name is Rosie, not any of those. None of those are what anyone calls her.

"I thought the first one with Rose was a genuine mistake but she keeps buying these gifts with the wrong name. I brought it up to her and she said it's no big deal since most people will assume Rosie is a nickname and not her legal name. I told her that didn't mean her own family should use the wrong name for her."

The mum and her sister then proceeded to argue over which of them was making a "big deal" out of the situation, with the mum claiming her sibling was being "rude" by purposefully using the wrong name for her niece.

She added: "She told me she would never understand the decision anyway. I told her that she was making it a much bigger deal than it needed to be. She told me I was.

"That's when I told her what she was doing was rude and she should stop. She accused me of being rude when she's giving gifts and I'm pointing out 'mistakes'. She also told me I was making too big of a deal out of it and making this a fight."

Commenters on the post defended the mum, with many agreeing that her sister's behaviour was "rude".

One person said: "Your sister is being weirdly passive-aggressive. Multiple personalised gifts with the wrong name for a baby? Those are aimed at you and her issue with you giving your daughter what she thinks of as a nickname."

While another added: "Start calling your sister different names and see how she likes it."

And a third posted: "As someone who is also called Rosie, nobody I know has ever assumed it’s a nickname and not my full name, especially my family."

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