When it comes to choosing a baby name, some parents will want to honour other members of their family with the moniker, such as naming their little one after a grandparent.
But one woman was left furious when she heard the news that her younger sister had "honoured" her with her baby's name - as the mum had given her tot a name that was related to the woman, but that she absolutely hates.
The woman explained she and her sibling are half-sisters with the same mum but different dads, and said they have only recently reconnected after they each grew up with their own dads.
When the woman was old enough, she decided to change her name so that she would no longer be associated with her mum, but this change was hard for her sister to accept, as she had only ever known her by her old name.
So, when the younger woman welcomed a baby girl in February, she decided to give the little one her sister's original name and claimed it was supposed to "honour" her - even though she can't stand the moniker.
In a post on Reddit, she explained: "My sister is my half-sister. We share a mum, but we did not exactly grow up together. I was 11 and she was three when we lived separately with our respective dads. In the time between that and our reuniting, I legally changed my first name (because my mum named me and f**k her, I wanted to have a name my dad gave me).
"My sister [only ever] heard me [being referred to by] my old name. When we met back up she was sad I had changed my name and asked if she could still call me by my old name. I said no. I told her I hated that name, hated that it represented Mum more than anyone and to call me by the name I use now. It took her a while to use the right one and I can't say in total honesty she uses it all the time. She probably uses the old one behind my back.
"She's now 23 and had a baby girl in February. She named her my original name and announced to the world that she had named her after me and wanted to honour me in her name, because I was her only sibling and she wanted us to be in each other's lives forever.
"This was how I learned about it. I didn't respond to it. She then called and asked me what I thought and I told her I didn't consider it an honour for me. She was very upset."
The woman said her sister couldn't believe that she wasn't "super touched" by her naming gesture, and said she had to explain several times that she doesn't associate herself with her old name, so doesn't see it as an honour at all.
She added: "The other day she told me we need to discuss this and how could I not be super touched that she named her daughter after me? I told her she used a name I hated and got rid of as soon as I was able and did not go by. I told her that was no honour to me when she named her daughter. I told her it was because she liked the name and it was one she had some emotional connection to, but I would never be touched she chose that name.
"My sister told me I was being mean and that's the name everyone knew me by longest. I told her it was the name SHE knew me by the longest. She chose a name I told her repeatedly I hated and she does not get to tell me I have to see that as an honour."
Commenters on the post were firmly on the woman's side, with many saying it was wrong of her sister to demand she feel honoured by a name she purposefully got rid of.
One person said: "She really needs to learn to drop it, holy f**k. She also obviously cannot dictate how you feel about a name. She sounds delusional."
While another added: "You get to determine who you are, and you get to determine what matters to you. Your sister is being obnoxiously assertive, refusing to acknowledge that dynamic."
And a third wrote: "You tell her over and over that you hate the name and hate any association with the name. Doesn't matter how much you try to make your point, some people just don't know how to listen."
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