Brother-In-Law Is FURIOUS We're "Stealing" His Baby Name From His Hypothetical Child
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's AITA story, OP asks if she's wrong for wanting to use the same name her boyfriend's brother plans to give his son, sparking family tension over who "owns" the name.
0:00 Intro
0:20 Story 1
4:14 Story 1 Comments / OP's Replies
8:37 Story 1
10:21 Story 1 Comments / OP's Replies
13:55 Story 2
15:27 Story 2 Comments / OP's Replies
16:55 Story 2 Update
17:53 Story 3
19:28 Story 3 Comments / OP's Reply
21:57 Story 3 Update
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more Reddit stories. |
| 0:09.7 | And if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider in that like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. |
| 0:15.7 | Let's crack on with today's first story. Much love, guys. |
| 0:24.8 | And our first story comes from that slough 5,900 that says, am I the asshole for wanting to name my baby the same name my boyfriend's brother wants to name |
| 0:30.6 | his son? Throw away account because my family and friends know my main one, and I don't want him to |
| 0:37.2 | see this post. So my boyfriend and I have my main one, and I don't want him to see this post. |
| 0:38.9 | So my boyfriend and I have been together for a while, one and a half years, and we decided |
| 0:43.7 | we wanted a baby. |
| 0:46.2 | It's going to be a boy, very clearly a boy, and we decided on a name, Bjorn. |
| 0:52.3 | My boyfriend's brother called us today after we announced to my boyfriend's |
| 0:55.7 | mum, dad and sister that lives with his parents what our son's name is going to be. And one of them, |
| 1:02.1 | we don't know who yet, told boyfriend's little brother what we've decided to call our son. And |
| 1:07.6 | boyfriend's little brother went offered us over the phone. According to boyfriend's |
| 1:11.8 | little brother, my boyfriend has known for 10 years what he wanted to name his son if he ever had one. |
| 1:17.3 | He has a daughter and told everyone that if she was a boy, his name would be Bjorn. My boyfriend |
| 1:23.2 | doesn't remember him ever saying that and no one ever mentioned anything to us when we told them |
| 1:27.8 | that us, that his little brother wanted the name and had for 10 years. On the call, he was really |
| 1:34.4 | aggressive. He started the phone call with, what's this about stealing my son's name? There was no hello, |
| 1:41.0 | no what's up, nothing, just straight to angrily asking us that. |
| 1:45.9 | My boyfriend was visibly confused, asked him what he meant, and boyfriend's little brother |
| 1:50.0 | started on about how my boyfriend had known for 10 years, that he wanted to name his son |
| 1:54.4 | Bjorn if he ever had a boy. Why were we taking it, asking us not to name our son Bjorn, |
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