Unwanted name suggestions

LesSaintesMariesDeLaMer

Anyone else getting fed up with unsolicited baby name suggestions from family and friends? 

We have already told people the 3 names that we have narrowed it down to....yet they keep giving us suggestions via facebook, text messages, emails, etc.   

I guess I'm hormonal and bitchy because it's really starting to piss me off.  I mean...we've been scouring through baby names for....oh....about 28 weeks now.  Yes I'm aware of the names Jackson, Brayden, Colton, Camden, Tristan, and every other name that ends with a vowel and 'n'.  Remember how we told you we hate those names????

Well now we've had it and we're just not discussing names with people anymore.  From now on when someone asks, we're telling them we're going to let him name himself on his 4th birthday.   

kris_kelsey

how about Jacob? 

I kid, I kid.  The reason I say Jacob is because it is number one most popular in the US in 2010 and all the names that keep getting suggested to me are in the top 10-20.  Seriously?  I don't want to name my kid one of the most popular names out there.  stop suggesting!  plus, when you suggest it then I hate that name a little more.

Bakerfam09

yes indeed! I vote for saying " Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions but we are all decided so just sit back and wait for the big reveal"

even though you feel like saying "keep your moronic suggestions to yourself!!"

 Anybody continues to pester you or thinks they should be among the privileged to know before everyone else gets " Hubby and I are treasuring making this decision alone, thank you for being so understanding"  Who can say anything to that? 

I have had such heartburn over it myself. Even after I tell people we are naming the baby in honor of a dear friend that has passed they STILL are like "but what about..........."  SERIOUSLY!!!!

 We did the above suggestion with the first kiddos and it worked like a charm. We have loosened up now that we are having #4 thinking  people really wouldnt bother us much and NO just the same BS we encountered first time around.  

 

LOL

 

Good Luck!!!! 

PickyNikki

For this very reason, we chose not to share the name with anyone for a long time, and once we did, we only shared with close family. No one else knows the name, and we've been set in it a long time. Everyone has an opinion, and people are probably suggesting alternatives because they don't like what you've already chosen. 

We don't have a middle name yet though, and when family asks if we've come up with anything and I say not yet, they start giving suggestions. Even my dad said "well, I like your middle name, what about that?" Um, no. Thanks for trying to help, but we already have a list and I'm sure we'll find something!

I think your right for not sharing anymore, and I like pp's suggestion of saying you've decided and they'll just have to wait until LO is born. 

GAPeach68

Yeah, when I say we haven't decided yet most people immediately start spewing names at me.  It's not that I haven't heard every name forwards and backwards 6 times, it's that we HAVEN'T DECIDED YET. 

Jinnifah

I bet you haven't fully considered Payton. It's a great name. You should name your baby Payton. I know you'll listen to the opinion of an Internet stranger

I understand the annoyance though. My gma keeps trying to guilt me into using obscur family names like Isaiah or ezechial (I don't even know how to spell that last one). It's so not gonna happen she'll have to be satisfied with the mn after my dad.

brideofscowboy

Consider it training for the real deal once baby arrives. That's when the most unsolicited advice that you'll ever get in your entire life really picks up speed.

 

 

EmilyXLC

Wow!  That has nothing to do with being hormonal & bitchy.  People who are doing that to you are just being plain out rude.  It is your child & you can name them whatever you like.  

Ugh.  The audacity of some people...

Asquared

I like to tell people we're going w/ Homer Guiseppe.  Tends to shut them up.  Just think of the most hideous name and tell people that's what you're going with- kinda fun! :-)

jeffsjayme

We've already decided and we also decided not to tell people the name.  One of the best decisions we made.  Since we've decided, no one gives suggestions.  Since we're not telling, no one has given us critcism.

I had wanted to tell people the name, but my DH didn't, so we didn't tell people which was a great decision.

MotherMonster

I decided on the name Pnina way before I even knew I was pregnant! I love it and even though DH, MIL and my mom weren't on board with it at first...they are all going to suck it up and learn to like it because DH picked the name it would be as common as people using toilet paper to wipe their back sides..

When people give me hard time about it, I just tell them "It was either Pnina or $hithead (pronounced Shhh-thed)" and then they shut up! Haha I'm mean, but I wanted a good Hebrew name for my daughter since we're Jewish and I hate common names. 

katylady09

Blah, that is one of my least favorite pregnancy conversations. I don't get any texts or facebook messages like you do (if I did I would be pissed!), most of it is just in person. I have my response memorized at this point. "No he doesn't have name yet, we are going to wait until he's here to see who he looks like" " That's a cute name, but we already have a list of the top contenders ready to go." I know people are just curious, but still!