My brother's family (briefly) had a dog named Lucy. My mother initially named a cat Lucy, but renamed it to Molly after I (good-naturedly) gave her a little ribbing for it.
I would be lying if I said it didn't irk me a little bit, but (a) there's a difference between letting a pet keep an existing name and giving it the same name as the one your daughter uses (I'm not sure my brother entirely gets that Lucy is my legal middle, let alone that I use it as my primary name), and (b)Lucy isn't even the middle name my parents gave me. I'm pretty much still "Becky" to them.
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I would be lying if I said it didn't irk me a little bit, but (a) there's a difference between letting a pet keep an existing name and giving it the same name as the one your daughter uses (I'm not sure my brother entirely gets that Lucy is my legal middle, let alone that I use it as my primary name), and (b)Lucy isn't even the middle name my parents gave me. I'm pretty much still "Becky" to them.