My husband and I have been desperately trying to come up with a name for baby girl #2 and finally agreed on [name]Emmeline[/name] (em- uh- [name]LINE[/name]). Our only reservation is that close friends of ours (my husband’s best friend and his wife) named their daughter [name]Emerson[/name] in [name]October[/name]. We have a large group of mutual friends and around them at least a few times a month. Our girls won’t go to school or church together, but will definitely be around each other a lot (we vacationed with them last year & will likely go on weekend trips with them in the future), so is it too similar to name our daughter [name]Emmeline[/name] (often called [name]Emme[/name]) due in [name]March[/name]? Thats really my only reservation but it is a big one!
Sorry so poorly written…my cell phone hates me.
Go for it! I don’t think it would be a big deal at all.
I agree with raqkel. I one of multiple girls named the same thing as others of my friends and it didn’t matter in the least. [name]Even[/name] if you do name your daughter based off of your current circle of friends. If you move away or your friend moves away or for whatever reason you stop being friends with her, your daughters wouldn’t hang out with each other. Also, there’s no way to predict what your daughter’s friends will be named, so you won’t be able to avoid it if she finds another [name]Emmeline[/name]/[name]Emmaline[/name]/[name]Emmalyn[/name]/[name]Emmelyn[/name]/Emerlyn/etc. and becomes best friends with her. Name her what you love and the rest doesn’t matter.
That’s true. I guess I am more worried about offending or upsetting them more so than the girls actually having similar names and being friends. I try to imagine if friends name their daughter something similar to mine if it would aggravate or annoy me and I can kind of see both sides.
It’s not a big deal at all, when you think about it I think many of us have grown up with friends or acquaintances with similar sounding names. [name]One[/name] of my childhood best friends has a name that is two letters off from mine and it wasn’t a big deal to my Mom. 
If youre such good friends with these people, why don’t you ask them about it? That way they can’t be mad at you- they can see that you have thought about their feelings