Baby name...secret or not?

ecloho · July 2015

anyone else keeping their babies name a secret? My husband and I are the only two that know!! He has sworn me to secrecy LOL! It's driving my mother and mother-in-law crazy! They keep trying to guess… I think it's funny and have to admit it's been kind of fun having a secret but kind of hard too! Ready for him to get here so I can spill the beans \:D/

mrsrep123 · July 2015

We're keeping it a secret too! I really just don't care to hear peoples' opinions that might have a negative affect on how I feel about it. So, until LO is out, he's baby boy! ;;)

oneblessedmess · July 2015

We were for a while but for the past few weeks we have been telling people if they ask. We haven't been advertising it though, it's not Facebook official or anything lol.

beccer123 · July 2015

I guess you could say ours is a secret too...even to us! lol!

2babes3angels · July 2015

We kept it a secret for our first. I thought it was really precious to have that moment of announcing his name along with his birth. But then I didn't have the emotional energy to keep that up this time, so we told our families whenever we decided with this one

kamio92 · July 2015

We have kind of kept bubba's name a secret...

We aren't exactly telling everyone...but family and a few close friends know. We've done it that way because we just don't want the judgement or negativity you can get sometimes when someone really doesn't like the name.

We've kept her middle name from everyone besides my grandmother who has dementia and forgot what her full name was going to be about 3 minutes after I told her. She's the only one who has liked it as well. We weren't 100% certain when we were throwing middle names around with family and everyone has hated the middle name that we've now decided on. I don't really care we're introducing her as Piper Joy Last Name and that is that

rcsuds · July 2015

I wish we kept it a secret...

ecloho · July 2015

@Knottie74091607 there's a baby girl at my parents church named piper

kamio92 · July 2015

Ecloho - aaaw! It's a sweet name! I've never met a Piper. Super keen to meet ours though

We picked Joy coz for us it's an important part of life at our church

ecloho · July 2015

@Knottie74091607 I love Joy! That's my mother's middle name

zmombie · July 2015

Kind of.. I told close friends and some family her first name. I didn't announce her full name until my baby shower. And I had a very small intimate shower with those few friends.. But her name was never announced until the day she was born, because I can't stand when people want to put there two cents in on how it should be spelt, or how it's too this or too that.. But everyone (even strangers) when they hear her name all say it's such a beautiful name. I love it. And it fits her so well!

corndogrobot · July 2015

We kept her name a secret because we didn't want the feedback from family. We didn't decide in a middle name until after she was born. Which gave me major anxiety. I felt like we couldn't tell anyone she was born until we decided on the middle name.

rubies4all · July 2015

People are mean! We don't have an exact name picked out yet just a few. I tell people our top names and it's like I'm a crazy person so we stopped. People will say whatever they want before baby is born but after baby is born and has that name many people don't say anything. The few people we told our first dons name-Cooper- some liked it and some were like why would you name your son that it's a dogs name, anything can be a dogs name!!

Marinewife81 · July 2015

We're keeping ours quiet, too. No one has been overly bothered by it, but we're also team green so there's a lot of suspense, especially considering today's my edd and there's no baby yet.

Savanna111911 · July 2015

My husband and I agreed from the beginning to keep our daughter's name a secret. In fact, he was more into the idea of keeping it a secret than I was. But now it's me that doesn't like to tell people and he does. He said he is getting tired of telling people we don't know. We aren't 100% sure so it isn't really a lie. I think the difference between the two of us is he genuinely wants feedback and I don't. Feedback ends up making me second guess or makes my feelings hurt, where he doesn't seem to care as much what others think.

jessicayounghouse · July 2015

We don't find out what we're having, so the gender is a secret for all, but we do share names! With this one though (third time mom here) we still don't know what we're naming our daughter if it's a girl and I've been having small contractions all morning! I think it's safe to say we won't have a girl name until she's here!

pandd10513 · July 2015

We were going to keep it a secret, but my SIL guessed it so we announced it at the baby shower. It's funny tho DH calls her Amelia and I still call her Baby Last Name.

Melis222 · July 2015

We kept it a secret from most people...I did tell a few a made them promise secrecy but we didn't 100% decide on her name until she was born. We had 2 or 3 choices in mind. Hubby and I had a hard time agreeing on names so we truly only had one we both liked...Alexandra. We call her Allie as a nickname.

clairelange · July 2015

We've tried to keep ours under wraps. Why is it that even strangers ask if you have a name yet, and if so what is it.... Errrr in not telling family, why would I tell you?!

dawall12 · July 2015

We don't know the sex and don't agree on a boy's name. We've been dropping names left, right and centre when people ask. We keep changing our minds! I can see why people keep the name a secret. Some people are very opinionated when you suggest something they don't like. But I don't care what anybody says, as long as my husband and I like it it's all that matters.

I am getting induced tomorrow so it will be exciting to find out the sex and figure out the name. We both think it's a boy.

kleinjm1 · July 2015

We kept it a secret too...everyone was dying to know. Even my hairdresser kept trying to trick me and get me to slip up! It was fun. We wanted to formally introduce him to everyone. Also, I couldn't stand not knowing the gender so holding back the name created the same type of excitement for everyone in the waiting room. When my humus and went out to let everyone know our LO was here they were all shouting what's the name! It was great!

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