Baby Name Poll Results

This is why you shouldn’t announce your name choice to anyone before your child is born. Use Mason as your son’s middle name. It would be confusing for both your son and his cousin to have the same name.

If you have expressed your concern with your brother-in-law and his wife then there’s not much you can do except find a new name or use Mason.
If you truly loved the name then use it.

I would use it, they didn’t even respect you enough to talk to you about it.

Use Mason as his middle name. But don’t hold a grudge about something as petty as this. Technically it wasn’t your name because your son hadn’t been born yet, which is totally not your fault that they had their son before you had yours but in a situation like this there isn’t a whole lot you can do about it. The first comment is right, you should never announce the name you are planning on using to family members especially if there are other family members that are also expecting. It would be very weird and very confusing to have two boys so close in age who will probably be playing together a lot named Mason.

If you really love it use it either as his middle name or use it as his first name and just call him by his middle name when with family but at school and with his friends he can still go by Mason. GL!

I know this must feel awful for you, but you need to find another name. Honestly, I’m sure you can find a better choice than Mason anyway -- it’s mega-popular!

Use Mason as a middle name and find another name in similar style. I understand that it may hurt but you said that you talked about using it so much in front of everyone, that’s probably why they ended up naming their baby Mason. After hearing it so often it most likely became the only name they liked after a while. Stuff like this happens quite a lot. The first comment is absolutely right.

Use it. It’s your baby’s name. You have been calling him Mason and it was his name first. I don’t blame you at all for being mad, that was very disrespectful and inconsiderate of them. It would be weird to have two Masons but it’s not a bad thing. They will probably feel pressure to call him by a different name later on. Use the name you decided, the name that you like.