Did you get feedback on your baby's name?

ArcticFox

s/o of the post below about the Baby Names board..

Did you tell anyone your name ideas before the baby arrived?

Did you get any feedback, especially bad feedback?

With my first baby, I did not tell a soul.  The second time around I was having a hard time so I told a select few people that the baby's name would probably be Hailey.  One of my friends actually told me it was a horrible idea, it is way too popular and at the time the whole Hailey Glassman (sp?) thing (with Jon Gosselin) was going on so why would I want a name associated with that.   I'm happy with my name choice but a little disturbed that a friend would say that!  I'm open for honest opinions, but it could have been said in a less harsh way.

dragon_chica

We had no qualms telling people what we were planning to name DD and we never received a negative response/reaction.  I have a PG friend that's not telling their name because she fears people will react badly to it.  I honestly feel that if you have your heart set on that name then who gives a flying fluck what other people think.  There are certain names I would NEVER use but it doesn't mean someone else doesn't love it.  My only response to a name would either be positive if I liked it or no response.

milkyway

We didn't tell anyone what name we had picked out for that very reason.  I didn't want outside opinions to make us question the name we picked out.  I love the name we gave DS and am glad we decided to go with it. 

alybookgirl

My whole family begged us not to name her Beatrice while I was pregnant. My friends laughed at me and then said, "it's your baby, name her what you want." Thanks friends. It never made us question our decision, but it did hurt our feelings when people thought we were purposefully trying to give her a weird name just to be different. We really love her name and now, so do most of the family and friends. We probably won't tell the next time around until the baby is born.

Mee83shell

We had 2 boys and 2 girls names picked out--and we didn't tell a soul any of them.  They weren't "weird" or anything, but we didn't want any outside influences on our choice.

Bryson

Logan

Madison

Makayla 

those were our names we picked...

Soap1

Yes, we've gotten negative feedback on both names before the babies arrived.  Mostly from my sister...

With DS1, my sister told me she didn't like it because people will call him *** (his name is Richard).  With DS2, we are naming him Merrick, and she hated it so much that she gave me a list of 20 names she liked better.

I really hate when people say negative things about your name choice.  I mean, if you hate it, you can say something like, "Oh, that's interesting".  But you don't have to say bad things about it. 

ETA: lol it censored Richard's possible nickname!

alybookgirl

Soap1:

Yes, we've gotten negative feedback on both names before the babies arrived.  Mostly from my sister...

With DS1, my sister told me she didn't like it because people will call him *** (his name is Richard).  With DS2, we are naming him Merrick, and she hated it so much that she gave me a list of 20 names she liked better.

I really hate when people say negative things about your name choice.  I mean, if you hate it, you can say something like, "Oh, that's interesting".  But you don't have to say bad things about it. 

ETA: lol it censored Richard's possible nickname!

Ooooh I like Merrick. 

kiwi443

We didn't tell anyone and therefore received zero negative feedback.

Cheekie4

When we found out the sex, we immediately started calling her by her name.  It's a traditional name, so ppl did say it was crazy or something like that.  I'm pretty sure my best friend isn't a fan of it, but she would never say anything in a million years (& I'd never say anything about her kids' names).

The only person who would upset me would be my MIL.  In 1st tri, we mentioned we may name the baby Harrison if it was a boy.  She started referring to my bump as "Harry's Hut."  First of all, I really dislike the name Harry.  Second of all, my bump was not a hut.  It pissed me off, but I realized that I didn't want to name my boy Harrison b/c I'm sure other ppl would call him Harry.

hellopoppyseed

We told everyone and are telling everyone again but not for advice. We don't care. We like what we picked and we are going with it. I think our confidence makes people less likely to critique. But plenty of people made different comments. It just never phased us.

star21gazer

We didn't tell a soul and so we didn't get any bad comments.  However, after she was here my MIL made a comment to my BIL about how she really disliked the name, which ticked me off mainly because she didn't have the balls to tell us, she tells my DH's little brother who of course told us.  So other than that we didn't hear anything other than good things.

We are going to do the same thing whenever it's time for #2..I found it to be kinda fun to have the secret to ourselves, and the way I feel about it is after they are born and named it's done and it doesn't do any good for people to tell you they like something different.  It just makes them look like a jerk to say things.  

thequeeenbee

The only person who made any negative comments was my mother, but I'm used to that. Before we found out the gender, we were considering "Jude" for a boy because we are huge Beatles fans. I was also considering Leila for a girl. She said she didn't like them, but wasn't overly harsh about it.

But, when we found out he was a boy we quickly settled on Ian Parker for some reason. There really isn't much negative things that you can say about the name Ian. lol. 

ZTACRYSTAL

dragon_chica:

We had no qualms telling people what we were planning to name DD and we never received a negative response/reaction.  I have a PG friend that's not telling their name because she fears people will react badly to it.  I honestly feel that if you have your heart set on that name then who gives a flying fluck what other people think.  There are certain names I would NEVER use but it doesn't mean someone else doesn't love it.  My only response to a name would either be positive if I liked it or no response.

Same here.

Lizard2022

We told everyone once we decided on a name and didn't get any negative feedback at all.  Even if we did, I wouldn't have cared.  I wanted outside advise in case I was missing a terrible nickname or association I wasn't thinking about.  I always tell people I like the name they picked when they are pregnant, if its true or not.  If they like it, its fine for their kid, but DH and I do make fun of some names in private.

MrsErinnElizabeth

We started telling some of the names we were considering and got a ton of negative comments, so we decided we weren't telling a soul once we picked the one.  I wouldn't have done it any other way.  I didn't have any hating on the name we chose, and people got all excited to find out what her name was once she arrived

pink.dutch.tulips

once we knew it was a girl, we had her name decided and had no qualms about telling anyone. everyone liked it was touched that we decided to honor dd's 2 grandmas and 1 greatgrandma w/ her name.

my brother didn't tell a soul and for good reason .. while we like his dd's name, it's the spelling that gets us. we would have spent 4-5 months trying to get him and my sil to go for more traditional spellings of the chosen names.

Mrs.Kass-Bass

milkyway:

We didn't tell anyone what name we had picked out for that very reason.  I didn't want outside opinions to make us question the name we picked out.  I love the name we gave DS and am glad we decided to go with it. 

This. We had names (one boy, on girl) far before we got pregnant. We didn't know the sex of the baby either so we got to tell everyone two surprises. Everyone likes it but we didn't care to know opinions before.