As countless stories have taught us, it's impossible to please everyone when choosing a baby name.
At the end of the day, it shouldn't matter if the parents of the baby are happy.
But sometimes it's good to get honest feedback ahead of your little darling's arrival, in order to avoid embarrassment later on.
One mum weighing up her options on what to name her newborn turned to the internet for a little bit of help.
And it's certainly not a situation everyone would find themselves in.
The woman took to Reddit to ask other people for advice and explain why she was so confused about the situation.
She wrote: "Ok so this is an odd one, for sure. I won't find out the gender for nearly a month, but the baby name I have had picked for nearly a decade (I've had baby fever since I was 16) is the same as one of my dogs' names.
"If I have a daughter, I want to name her after my dad's grandma (who raised him) and my sister (who passed away 2 1/2 years ago).
"The problem is, a month after my sister passed away, I was in a very dark place. I was really struggling emotionally because she was my best friend, and it was a very sudden and traumatic loss.
"In the midst of my downward spiral, my cousin sent me a link for a local fb group, and there was a dog in need of a new home. I instantly fell in love, and when they told me her name was Lucy, I jumped in my car to go pick her up.
"She has been the one to get me through my darkest days, and she even started responding to my seizures and syncope episodes with very little prompting."
So now that she's pregnant, people are asking her if she's going to give up her favourite name for a girl, which happens to be Lucille Arlene.
But she still wants to ahead, and you can see why people are unsure of how she should proceed.
Her dog's name is Lucille Ruth (or Lucy Roo), so people in her life think it might be confusing for the duo to share the same first name.
There's no issue if she has a boy, as she plans to call him William Lesley Scott, and her other dogs are called Gracie Mae and Johnny Cash.
One Redditor tactfully tried to steer her away, writing: "I would change the dog’s name to something somewhat similar-sounding and stop calling her Lucy in any way if my child was going to use that name.
"I don’t think it’d be confusing but kind of...degrading to your child? It just seems tacky and devaluing to name my child what I’ve named my dog? I have a feeling others think the same but are using “ confusing ” as a gentler way of trying to get you to avoid doing this."
They added: " I don’t know, this is just my opinion and perspective! In the end, you should absolutely do what you want to do!
"Dogs can easily learn being called a new name. It won’t harm the dog in any way. Perhaps you could consider Marcy, Maisie, Darcy, Lindsey, or something else with similar sounds the dog can pick up fast.
"I mean, what is more important: your dog keeping her name just because of your child growing up without underlying psychological stress of being named after your dog?"
A second person suggested: "I would probably use Lucy/Lucille as a middle name for your daughter. Then you get to use the name you like and your dog and kid aren't named the same thing."
"I think you're a low-key genius and here's why. Every parent I know accidentally calls their kid by their dog's name and vice versa. Boom, problem solved," another joked.
