Sharing baby's name once you know the sex...

sstrom22 · October 2014

IF you have a name already picked out for your boy or girl, do you plan to share the name with everyone when you find out what you're having? I'm a little torn... With DD we honestly didn't decide on a name until 2 weeks prior to her being born. This time around, we are fairly confident in our name choices - maybe because we've already been through the process

While I kind of want to share the name when we find out, I also want to keep something a secret until he/she is born...

What are all of you doing?

CoozieInMyPurse · October 2014

We aren't sure of kiddo's name yet, but we have already decided not to share it until he is born. I would almost prefer that we don't pick one out too early to make it easier.

lalaroller08 · October 2014

We won't decide on a name until we meet the baby. We find out the sex this week, then we'll narrow it down to two names and choose when baby is born!

mamajack86 · October 2014

Chances are we will share as soon as we're 100% sure on a name. With our son it was nice we were able to refer to him by name.

JennyP0222 · October 2014

I will share the name once we narrow it down and know the sex. But I plan to share with immediate family and close friends only, I won't be making like a FB post or anything announcing the name to the world.

janda426 · October 2014

Only immediate family knows his name and we won't be announcing it on FB or IG until he's born

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Mary and Dave · October 2014

I don't think that we'll keep the name a secret, but I don't plan on doing a huge name announcement on facebook or anything. In fact, we haven't "announced" this pregnancy on facebook yet.

mangomimosa · October 2014

We don't have a name yet, but if there's a chance others won't like it -- we're going to keep it to ourselves. Once a baby is born and named, it's so rude to comment about the name choice!

aylaroman15 · October 2014

We've already decided the name and have shared it with close family and friends. No social media announcement until she's born though.

FrecklesInside · October 2014

We never share names until birth. There is always a small chance we will go with a different name, we don't want outside opinions on the matter, and we enjoy the surprise of announcing baby with his name for the first time. We did this with E and loved it.

sstrom22 · October 2014

We haven't announced anything on FB this time around and to be honest, we probably won't... just thinking we'll tell family when we call them to let them know the sex and people who ask. I still worry we might change our minds at the end and then we'd be stuck with embroidered gifts from MIL with the babe's wrong name on it

mangomimosa · October 2014

FrecklesInside said:

We never share names until birth. There is always a small chance we will go with a different name, we don't want outside opinions on the matter, and we enjoy the surprise of announcing baby with his name for the first time. We did this with E and loved it.

Love this!! I just posted that we would share the name unless controversial, but now I'm going to try to persuade H to keep it a secret so we can announce at birth. That sounds really special.

honkytonk_kid · October 2014

We told right away last time. But his name is my maiden name, there a never really a debate on it or chance of changing it, just on middle name. Haven't decided this time if we'll tell or not.

jpavenski · October 2014

We wait to see the baby before deciding on a name. Last time we had a list of like 3 names for each sex before my son was born. I have told people some names I like but I am already getting criticism on that end it's kind of annoying!

Shebamommy · October 2014

We keep the name to ourselves and announce after baby is born (but might not settle on anyting until the last minute anyway).

ruemorgan · October 2014

For the last year or so we have known what we would name our first son. So we didnt skip a beat when we found out it was a boy and told everyone to "say hi to Padraic!" (In the ultrasound it looked like he was waving back at you :P )

But, I have no idea how naming the next kid will go.

I would personally never keep the name a secret if I knew it was "the one." But I can understand how others might worry if they change their mind.

ripperswifey · October 2014

Being a teacher its hard to share a name without anyone saying the good bad or ugly about names that we liked. So i think we'll keep a few names and then decide at birth.

pregarella · October 2014

We waited until the shower to share it last time. This time we will probably start telling people at some point soon.

Ladylec · October 2014

We told everyone our name when we announced that we were pregnant at 12w. H's cousin is pregnant and due 7w before me with a girl also so we wanted to tell everyone the name so she wouldn't want to use. It worked

JCWhitey · October 2014

We've always told. People know already what names we have picked out for both, I haven't really heard any opinions either way from people. I even refer to the baby by the boy's name we have picked out. It'll be quite an adjustment if s/he ends up being a girl!

ETA: If it's avoiding negative replies you are aiming for, it doesn't help to wait until after the birth. We still had people commenting on our name choice after he was born.

scarlettc27 · October 2014

We won't be sharing the name, and it isn't because we might change our minds. I don't know why, but it kind of weirded me out when my mom would refer to my nephew by name all the time before he was born. I can't put my finger on why. My friend who is Jewish said it's custom to wait until after the birth to share a child's name, in a ceremony. I like that. (I am not Jewish; please forgive me if I said that incorrectly.)

rm2013 · October 2014

I'm on team no sharing until the baby is here. I don't want to hear anyone's opinions, and I don't like to call baby by the name we've chosen (even among DH and I) before they are actually born. So baby gets an in-utero nickname until they come. Problem is DH does not agree and will tell anybody, even a complete stranger, so I'm not sure how well keeping it a secret is going to go this time. Last time I didn't "officially" pick a name till we were in the hospital just so he couldn't tell anyone

this time if it's a girl I don't know if I'll be able to pull that off a 2nd time , and if it's a boy he wants to name him after him so I'm screwed.

drudolph11 · October 2014

Im almost positive that we will share the name as soon as we find out the sex and are 100% on the name. SO and I literally can't agree on any freaking name that we both like so we prob won't even have a for sure name picked out for a while. Plus we don't even find out the sex until the 29th lol we already have middle names picked out for both sexes (they are his gf and my gm who have both died middle names) so were picking first names based on that which actually helps narrow it down a little. Not that it has really freaking helped any lol after we finally pick one we aren't gonna go shout it from the roof tops or post it on Facebook (although im sure my mom will) but if we're asked we will tell!

Shellyhume · October 2014

We announced our name when we shared what sex we are having. It was annoying having people "suggest" names for us. We are set on our name and pleased to know that other people like it, too. It's also wonderful referring to my LO by her name... I feel like it makes her more real to both DH and I. WHEN she comes will still be her own surprise.

meowkitten · October 2014

We will not be sharing our names. We are 100% on a girl's name and almost there on a boy's name, but there is always the chance that we could change our mind last minute. Plus, I love the idea of it being a surprise!

052806 · October 2014

We shared DS1's name, but not DS2 until after he was born. Actually, we sent/ texted all of our friends and family a picture of him wearing a hat that had his name on it right after he was born, so that is how we told people. I think we will do the same thing this time- I just don't care about people's opinions.

The reason we did this with DS2 is because he was named after my deceased grandfather, who had been dead for a while, and my husband's grandfather who had passed away only a few months before. He has the same exact name as him. It is an old man's name and not everyone's taste, and we didn't want to give FIL too much time to think about it beforehand and get upset that our son had the same exact name as his dad. It ended up working out well and everyone loves his name (he goes by a shortened, nickname).

Shellyhume · October 2014

I love old man names.

growingournest · October 2014

We find out the sex of baby on Friday, and we will be sharing his/her name. We really want this baby to be able to have its own identity, rather than referring to it as "it" until it's born.

marissalucia · October 2014

We are about 95% set on our sons name, but we will be keeping it secret. the number one reason is because we have not had the chance to announce anything thus far. We made the mistake of telling ONE of my boyfriends sisters that we were pregnant and that it was a boy and told her not to tell anyone because no one knew yet and we wanted to share the news ourselves. That went out the window. The next day my BFs entire family knew not only were we having a baby, but it was a boy. (including distant cousins and family friends) and to make it worse, our families are friends so a couple of my cousins and aunts also found out. And to be honest, we were crushed. The only people we got to tell were my father and 2 brothers. But we hadn't announced yet because I'm PGAL and wanted to be further along, and we had explained that to my SIL and that still meant nothing. it's also the first child for both of us and we wanted the experience of sharing the news. So for this reason NO ONE will know his name until he is born

MalVough · October 2014

Our boy name is picked (family name... no choice in the matter!), so everyone knows if we have a boy, he'll follow tradition.

We're about 90% sure we have the girl name chosen.

Both names are common, so I don't anticipate any rudeness. We'll probably share with whoever asks. And I have a lot of family who live across the county, so we'll probably share on Facebook.

Skrittens · October 2014

We aren't going out of our way to tell people the sex or the name, but we are sharing if people ask or if it comes up in conversation. I am not a fan of keeping secrets just to surprise other people. I get not telling other people the name because it might change or that you are worried someone might steal it though.

MrsPope1770 · October 2014

We shared the name, including on FB. She is our first baby, and the first great grandchild on H's side, so with everyone asking/giving input/being so excited I guess we just didn't really mind sharing. After seeing several of the reasons for keeping it a secret, we may do that if we are able to have another child!

MissyCee · October 2014

Even if we were to decide on a name before he/she is born we won't be sharing until the birth. At this point, we haven't really even talked about names.

JCWhitey · October 2014

Darbie914 said:

Also, I'm impressed with all of you that have solidly decided on names so early! DH and I have barely talked names and likely won't do so more in detail until we are closer to the due date.

One of the first real conversations I ever had with my husband after I met him, when we were still basically strangers, was about the name we eventually gave to our son. It was a conversation about things we like that other people think are a little strange and he said "I've always wanted to have a son named..." and I busted out laughing because that's actually the name I had always loved. It also had meaning to both of us, but I knew the moment I got pregnant that we'd be naming our son that.

With girls and subsequent kids we had a long discussion about it on a road trip and we created our list of favorite names. This was when I was pregnant so almost two years ago and we still love that list. We have one more boy's name and three girl's names. We agreed on them all right away as they all have something to do with events, people, or places in our lives.

babystarin · October 2014

We will not share our name before hand. If our baby is born on march 16 we will use Edmund and nickname him Eddie after my grandpa (16th was his bday). But if our baby is born on another day we will probably give our baby his own name... Neither of us is super crazy about Edmund/ed as a first name but love Eddie. Plus if we change our mind on our set name I don't want any monogrammed/embroidered things.

massiejs09 · October 2014

We shared the name with our family. It's nice because now we can call her by her name and not Babies #3 which is what we have been calling her.

stepherly · October 2014

We decided on a boy & girl name already, but we'll wait until birth to announce the name. We are planning on telling our families the sex, but keeping the name a surprise.

@Shanniegal‌ The boy name we chose is from Egyptian history. However at the a/s we were told the baby is a girl, so we won't get to use it this time unless we have a surprise at birth.

FrecklesInside · October 2014

babystarin said:
We will not share our name before hand. If our baby is born on march 16 we will use Edmund and nickname him Eddie after my grandpa (16th was his bday). But if our baby is born on another day we will probably give our baby his own name... Neither of us is super crazy about Edmund/ed as a first name but love Eddie. Plus if we change our mind on our set name I don't want any monogrammed/embroidered things.

I find it weird that you will only do this if he is born a certain day...

FrecklesInside · October 2014

I'm sorry to those of you who say you get opinions once baby is born anyhow. No one in my life is rude enough to comment on an outside baby's name, but when baby is still inside, people might feel free to give opinions or make suggestions. Everyone knows not to bother giving us suggestions, I'm a name nerd and we luckily don't have family or friends who think they could possibly interfere with that decision. But I hear a lot of people complain about unsolicited opinions- simple way to avoid that is to not share the name.

Beyond all that, as I've said, announcing baby's birth with the name as a surprise IS a lot of fun.

mellowmoodbaby · October 2014

I am 20 wks with a boy! We have a name, we also had a name for a girl. We didn't think to keep it a secret because we love it so much! Very confident with the name.

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