The name that my DP and I both like best for our daughter is Remy, but our pet bird's name is Reggie. Is it too similar? Do you you think that everyone will think we bascially have given our daughter our pet's name? Or will people get over the similarity quickly?

I don't think it matters :)

Our Cat is Shadow and our daughter is Willow.

(However when she was first born hubby kept calling Willow, Shadow but by accident).

I don't think it matters. To be blunt, your pet won't be alive for ever anyway. By the time she is a teenager it will most likely have passed on, and no-one will think about it.

Mind you, our 2 sons are Luke and Liam, and we do get them mixed up a bit! They don't mind.

Lisa

Go for the name you love I actually don't think they are really that close anyway!

My parents have a dog called Max, so Max is off our names list, and they used to have a dog called Lily, that's also off our list. I think unless the names are identical there are no issues, Remy is a lovely name!

It's not too close at all. It's a great name.

I had it on my short list for a boy actually so thumbs up from me!!
I agree that if you think it's too close, change the birds name!!

I like what Freester wrote "I say go for it! I know someone who actually named their child what they had previously named their cat - they loved the name so much that they changed the cats name and used the name for their child! "

We have a cat named Moby, who was nicknamed poppet (dont ask why, we have no real idea how it happened) which has since been shortened to poppy. Now that we have started thinking about having a family and hence names I love the name poppy but wasnt going to use it as thats what we call the cat. I guess it wont be that hard to change her name back to Moby and the general public dont know we call her poppy. Thanks Freester for giving me back that name.

i dont think they are all that similar tbh. the sound is a little alike but the names are quite different.

i have always liked the name hollie. but i named my dog hollie. and i have this thing where i cant name an animal or person the same name as one i;ve already had- so even if my dog died, i couldnt call my baby hollie.
that said, my parents bred siberian huskies. and i remember a lot of names which i liked- and i have used a couple partly in my kids names. we had one named jazz and dd2 got jasmine for her middle name. we had a willow, and dd3 has willow for her middle name. i couldnt use them as first names however as they 'define' the animal, or other person if it was a person i knew. but that is when you are talking about exact names. similar names would be different. like, i have a niece named hayley. but i wouldnt hesitate to call a son hayden (only, now i wont out of respect as a friend had a stillborn whom she named hayden) cos even though they are similar they are not the same iygwim?