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Baby Name Debates
How many of you are sharing your baby names with family/friends, whomever? I'm on the fence. We haven't figured it out yet...but at this point I'm thinking we may not tell anyone. Pros & Cons for those of you who have and/or have not told?
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Re: Baby Name Debates
We shared - but only because he's named after DH (DH is a jr, Twerp will be a "third")
I hate when people comment on baby names - it's none of their business!! And especially if it's negative, they need to learn to keep it to themselves!!
Depends on how thick your skin is.
If you can take the criticism and not care what people say or think, then it's no big deal.
We kept it quiet as long as we could. My husband told some friends at work. I told my Mother (who couldn't keep her mouth shut). Next thing you know, everyone knows.
Neither my Mother or Mother in Law like her name but they're at least using it now.
This is pretty much our experience. Except, now, we found another name that we like as well as, or maybe better, and are considering changing it. Ahhh, the drama....
If I had it to do over again, we wouldn't tell ANYONE before she was born.
With Margaux we didn't tell anyone. We had a short list, and we weren't sure which name would be the right one, but we didn't even share the list. Mostly it was that we really didn't want anyone else's opinions to interfere with what we both thought was good. We're both gentle people, and we try sometimes too hard to please. I also think my and my husband's taste runs toward archaic and medieval names, AND they'd have to work in both French and English. That said, no one had anything bad to say about "Margaux Elizabeth."
We'll be doing the same with this new baby. We did let everyone know the middle name this time, because it'll be "Patricia" for my husband's father. He passed away earlier this year.
We are telling people fake names that are so horrible that we figure when we have real names everybody will be relieved even if they don't like them.
Our fake names are Cletus (as in Cletus the Fetus) for a boy and Persephone (as in queen of the underworld) for a girl
Last time we told noone because I didnt want to hear any opinions good or bad. This time Ive told my mum the contender names for a girl because one of the names is the name of my grandma, so I knew she would love that.
However my partner and I havent agreed yet on a boys name. He is from Samoa and their names can be quite tricky. Ive said it can be a samoan name as long as it works here as well. But so far I dont like anything hes chosen.
You have to agree with me please--- names like Ta'ape, Tatoi, Mafulu (my partners name) are not really user friendly here in Australia.
My son's name - Salua is beautiful. it can also be shortened to Sa which is his Samoan grandfathers name. I hope we can agree on something arrrggghhhhhh!
Most casual acquaintances have heard, oh we aren't sure yet, still thinking
We've told my mother in law, sis in law and my dad and no one likes our name. lol
All I said was,
it's us, did you really expect normal?
and
No, we aren't joking
We chose the name Pandora, despite people thinking that it's for a bracelet or internet radio station. We like it. The middle name we are hung up on still though.