I feel like it’s not necessarily name theft if it’s a top 100 name— those names are popular and people are bound to come up with the same or similar combos.
However, if someone fairly close to you (friends/family/coworkers/etc) has been talking about naming their child a certain name, regardless of popularity, and you use the name first, after hearing them talk about it, then it’d be name theft. Another one where it’d be name theft is if an unusual name or combo is created, and someone sees/hears it from a friend and uses it first.
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