Anyone keeping name a secret?

sweetestlove · January 2010

I confirmed with my mom yesterday that we had decided on a name and she tried every way she could think of to get it out of me (begging, bargaining, bartering and even black mail). I just explained that we weren't going to be telling anyone and now I am thinking it's going to be hard to do!

ggmae · January 2010

When DH and I have a child one day, I plan to keep the name choice to ourselves. That way, people's opinions of the name won't influence our decision at all. My mom learned the hard way - she told everyone the names she had chosen for my brothers and I and got some "What kind of name is THAT!?" comments. No thanks. I'll keep it to myself!

KatieR10 · January 2010

We didnt keep my sons name a secret and I got alot of feed back on it, some I liked some I didnt, We dont plan on telling anyone our daughters name and its killing everyone. But thats the good part when we do tell everyone her name, they will love it, no matter what!!!! I think this is such a great idea!

brooksidebride · January 2010

We're keeping our final choice a secret. We have about 5 or 6 top names right now and might not even make a final decision until we meet her. We've thrown around some of our ideas and top idea to select friends and family members, but we'll ultimately keep the one we're going to choose (if we decide ahead of time) to ourselves. 1) to keep it a surprise. 2) to avoid hearing opinions and letting them influence us.

loveyoubean · January 2010

We aren't telling but we just say we have not decided yet... we thought we would be asking for it if we told people we knew but weren't telling. Saves a lot of that bartering, bargaining stuff.

loveyoubean · January 2010

AND by the way, love your carseat-- we have the same travel system for our LO!

Mitzie · January 2010

We picked two nonoffensive names and used those so I didn't have to discuss the huge list of other names I had in mind.

SLM05 · January 2010

KatieR10:
We didnt keep my sons name a secret and I got alot of feed back on it, some I liked some I didnt, We dont plan on telling anyone our daughters name and its killing everyone. But thats the good part when we do tell everyone her name, they will love it, no matter what!!!! I think this is such a great idea!

Same thing happened to us with DD so we ar enot sharing the names, we just tell people we have ideas but nothing set in stone. they usually dop it.

KoalaBear103 · January 2010

I always thought we would tell, but now I'm reconsidering that. I'm not pregnant yet but I mentioned something about our boy name to my mom and she gave me this "oh" which wasnt what I was expecting. So I'm considering not telling anyone until the baby is born...who knows what will happen when I'm actually pg though.

sweetestlove · January 2010

loveyoubean:
AND by the way, love your carseat-- we have the same travel system for our LO!

Thanks! We can't wait to use it! I love how smooth the stroller rides.

Mama_SAS · January 2010

We did not tell anyone what our name was for DS and aside from my mother and my SIL no one gave us any crap about it. It worked out great for us and we won't be telling next time either!

SweetSpikette · January 2010

we haven't told anyone we know in real life. i just blab about it on here.

PhilsWife07 · January 2010

I thought about doing that with this baby but it's just not worth the obnoxious prying we'd receive from family. I'd rather have it out in the open so they can get used to the name now.

nestinginjapan · January 2010

yep.

kellyandjoelinchi · January 2010

At first I couldn't help but tell...but after I told everyone our name it sort of seemed to lose it's magic. It was like all the fun was over once I told. Anyway, a few weeks ago we decided on another name and are just going to let people think we are sticking with the old name so they won't ask us anymore...our little surprise!

teelaman · January 2010

kellyandjoelinchi:
At first I couldn't help but tell...but after I told everyone our name it sort of seemed to lose it's magic. It was like all the fun was over once I told. Anyway, a few weeks ago we decided on another name and are just going to let people think we are sticking with the old name so they won't ask us anymore...our little surprise!

What if they buy you something with the old name on it?

We told everyone - and only one person had something semi-bad to say about it (and that was DH's gma, and she said that we should've asked her first b/c she already picked out "the perfect name").

LMS05 · February 2010

No, the names I like are so "normal/traditional/classic" that keeping it a secret makes no sense. I think if I kept it a secret, everyone would wonder why when I told them the name after the baby was born. I honestly find it strange to keep names a secret. No one is my circle does that.

ldoo · February 2010

We're keeping it semi-private. I can't help but tell my mom and very close friends. Other than that, I just say we haven't decided yet. And truth be told, my husband still says he isn't sure about the name. But I think it would take a miracle for it to change in the next 5 weeks.

I do get tired of people's negative opinions, and I just like the additional surprise element of everyone not knowing. Since we found out this time what we're having (we didn't last time), keeping the name a bit of a surprise makes it more fun.

erycsgirl · February 2010

We kept our first two children's names a secret and this one will be a secret too! I definitely don't regret it and wouldn't have it any other way.

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