If I understand correctly ... You are not pregnant, but wanted to "book" the name(s) you like for your future child, so your pregnant sister in law, or other family/friends wouldn't use them for their own children before you even concieve your own child. Yes, I think you're being unreasonable.

But They Were Her Names Not Her Sister In Laws To Take Without Asking .. Now Thats UNFAIR!!!!
And Not Unresonable At All

S41e6- Yes i am not pregnant. Been battling for over a year now.

Yes - i did want to book my names because you can not have 2 cousins with the same name and surname. My sister in law asked what names i liked so i told her. And she told me hers. And that is how it was for about 2 years. Neither of us were pregnant at the time.

Then she had her little girl and liked my name. What i am upset about is- if i had not told her i couldn't be upset as she wouldn't have known that i liked that name. But we had been talking about it openly with husbands and our mom in law and she had liked Mia and Ella. Had she said she also liked Emily- then i wouldn't have been upset as then it is fair to whoever has a girl first.

I feel very sad as i would have liked to have had the choice to name my child Emily-a name i have liked for about 5 years.

I think, that you can't "book" names, if you're not pregnant at that point. Yeah you can be upset as it wasn't a nice thing to do. But if she really loved the name I can see how she didn't want to change it. Heck, just name your future baby Emily anyway. No reason to get too upset, somebody took one of my names to name her child. I'm not too close with them but I don't care either way, at least now I know that that baby has a good name

This happens all the time. If you share your names with anyone, you are risking them being "taken" by family or friends. I learned the hard way myself. A close friend of mine and I used to have fun sharing names we liked before either of us were even pregnant. We were both pregnant at the same time, and I overheard her saying that she and her husband had this girl's name picked out-and it was the very name I had told her we would use for a girl (after my sister, who passed away 11 years ago, so it was very special to me). I just could not believe it. After days of crying over it and praying about what I should do, I went to her myself to talk to her about it. I told her we may never have a girl, but if we do, that is what we plan to use. She was not mad or anything, and they decided after that to change the name, and they did. They did have a girl and us a boy. When I was expecting our son, I had told her some boy's names that we liked. One of them that we didn't use, we decided we would definitely use it if we have a second son. It was my favorite boys' name besides my son's name and was the perfect name to go with his name for a second boy. Well, they are expecting again, a boy this time, and guess what his name is going to be? I was very disappointed, but it's okay considering that they were nice enough not to use my sister's name for their daughter. But I think sometimes when you tell your names (especially before you're even pregnant) others hear it and start thinking "you know, I like that". My husband and I have decided that with any other children we have, we will not be sharing any of our name ideas with anyone- we will tell it when they're born.

Emily is the name of my Pug...she's cute an all...but still, she's a dog if that makes you feel better.