Am I in the wrong?

My best friend is currently not talking to me because I “stole” her baby name.

I just had my second daughter. This friend was the second person I told outside of my husband. She has been with me as much as she can for the entire pregnancy (we live 4ish hours apart). We talked about baby names a lot, especially girl names as I’ve know what my husband and I would name a son since my first pregnancy. Once my husband and I settled on a name after confirming baby was another girl, this friend was again the first person I told. Afterwords I always referred to baby as her name.
Fast forward to after the birth and I’m FaceTiming this friend to properly introduce her to my new daughter and I refer to her as the nickname my husband and I have been using since we chose her name. I’ve used this nickname while talking to my friend just as much as her chosen name and yet it is only after my daughter is born that my friend tells me the nickname is her first choice girl name.
She hasn’t talked to me since that conversation and I’m just at a loss about how I could be the bad guy. She says I should’ve known this was her chosen name. I say we’ve had exactly one conversation in 10+ years of friendship about what her baby name choices are and the last conversation was over 7 years ago.
I feel it’s important to mention that she is not pregnant, and is not remotely close to becoming pregnant. I also have no issue what so ever if she wants to use the nickname as it’s just that to us; a nickname. I doubt we’ll end up using it still by the time she has kids.

This by no means will end our friendship, I just think it’s a stupid fight that could’ve been avoided if she’d mentioned it sooner

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