I did last time and not one person was an asshole. Everyone said, "Oh, I love that list!" or something like that. So I probably will again this time too. As a rule, my husband and I don't discuss names with any seriousness until we have the sex of the baby. Until then it's things like, "I heard this name and liked it."
I probably also do it because I don't care one bit what other people think about the names I choose.
I'm gonna tell the options cause we're team green. When we tell people the boy and girl names we always mention they are family names and that normally prevents people from giving a bad opinion cause they don't want to insult our family.
Now I want to hear all of your current and future LO's names lol. You guys have me all excited about baby names!! I am dead set on a girl name, the middle name will be the same as my little sister and my whole immediate family knows and loves it already. As for boy names we are having some trouble. DH just keeps saying names of professional athletes....no honey just no!
Now I want to hear all of your current and future LO's names lol. You guys have me all excited about baby names!! I am dead set on a girl name, the middle name will be the same as my little sister and my whole immediate family knows and loves it already. As for boy names we are having some trouble. DH just keeps saying names of professional athletes....no honey just no!
Well, like I said, ours are family names. For girl we chose Dania Jean (dania is my abuelas name who died of cancer when my dad was 13 in Cuba, and Jean is DHs grandma)
For boy we chose Anthony Michael (Anthony first came up cause people always say DHs name wrong so it was kinda a joke but then I thought more about it and in my family we have a lot of Antons which is the Croatian "Anthony" and Michael is American for Miguel, my abuelo)
I'm jumping on the 'hell no' train! I can't stand other people's opinions about most things in life. Definitely not on what this babe's name will be! My hubs family was shocked each time they asked and I said we didn't know yet, and then asked what names were we 'thinking' about, nope, grrrr.
I find this so interesting! Overwhelmingly everyone is saying "no". I love sharing our names, even if other people aren't always totally on board. The funniest response I ever had was when someone asked me about our son's potential name and I said, "maybe such-and-such" and he said "maybe is a nice name"!. Haha, I actually thought it was hilarious and I love our son's name (and so does everyone else!)
I'm surprised on all the nopes, but I get it and am leaning toward that myself. You can't hate a name once it is given to the precious new
member of the family. I'll have to make up some names to tell people
when they ask...they always ask
I also don't want them to start calling my (eventual) Bump a name and then be disappointed if I change it
Last time we had top contenders, but I only mentioned them as if it was of no importance. It wasn't a secret, we just weren't 100% positive and wanted to wait until she was born.
The fun part of not sharing the name was allowing family and friends to make suggestions. This gave great opportunities to hear names we would have never considered. Plus, it made people feel very connected to the baby. Definitely going that route again.
Now I want to hear all of your current and future LO's names lol. You guys have me all excited about baby names!! I am dead set on a girl name, the middle name will be the same as my little sister and my whole immediate family knows and loves it already. As for boy names we are having some trouble. DH just keeps saying names of professional athletes....no honey just no!
I am set on a few girls names, Margot or Lila as a fn, and Rose as a mn. For boys DH likes Mason which has grown on me but I'm not 100% sure on it, not 100% positive on a mn either. For some reason, I am only interested in girls names and have myself convinced this little bugger is a girl so I don't have to worry about boys names. We'll see how right I am in 10 weeks and if I'm wrong, we'll have 20 more weeks to seriously look at boys names.
We won't be telling anyone any names, everyone in my family is very opinionated and I love the names we've chosen, I don't want any judgement from anyone taking that from us! We are also team green so we'll be announcing its a ____ named _____! So everyone will be caught up in the reveal that no one will judge. Truthfully when my 2nd niece was born (also a surprise team green birth) I wasn't so into the name but now it suits her perfectly!
Funny story... When I was born my grandmother hated my name & my whole life called me by a nickname that she made up at birth... She told my mom that my name didn't suit me and no granddaughter of hers would be called that... Ha!
We didn't with either of our others but mostly because they didn't have a name until they were born. The Doctor put our son on my chest adn a nurse said "What's his name?" my response was "I don't know". We have discussed a boy name prior to getting pregnant that I still adore but he is questioning it already. We have already told a few people this name but I don't know if it will stick because H is a pain in the ass.
I basically just say ... these are the names we have chosen and they're not up for debate. Both my mom and mil have been really good about accepting that. Except my mom hates that I want all our kids to have double middle names. But like I've told her. It's not up for debate. Our kids. Our decision.
I love the name I have chosen for if its a girl.. And I made the mistake of telling my mom, she is insisting I change the middle name to something after her or use my middle name. She even said "End of Discussion"... I don't think I'm going to change it, but I do regret telling her. Everyone else loved it.
Ew. My mom is the opposite. And I don't have a MIL (passed away).
Me: 29 / Hubster: 31 Married July 2010 DC #1 Oct 2013 DC #2 EDD June 2016
I should've kept my mouth shut about the names...just got in a huge fight with my mom over what the middle name should be...I didn't want to have a middle name and that just sent her over the edge. Next time I'm keeping my mouth shut till delivery...no one will argue with me when there's a cute baby to look at
Seriously? These moms and MILs are unreal!
Me: 29 / Hubster: 31 Married July 2010 DC #1 Oct 2013 DC #2 EDD June 2016
We shared DDs name and didn't get any flack, but it isn't unusual (Sophie Grace) and I don't think we would've cared. My family is supportive -- my mom is the warm, polite type. My dad would make comments if he didn't like the name though. We've had issues some people with our church congregation being obnoxious (i.e.: harassing me/DH/my friends to know if I'm expecting...finding out I'm pregnant somehow and telling EVERYONE at like 5w...WTF) so it's making me want to keep my cards to close my vest this time around.
To answer PP: Names I/we like are: Emma, violet, vivienne, Sienna, Paige, Evelyn Grant, Ezra, Jonah, Silas, Elijah
ETA: posted before I was done. Doh!
Me: 29 / Hubster: 31 Married July 2010 DC #1 Oct 2013 DC #2 EDD June 2016
I do. Everyone I know knows that my response to anything negative is: are you going to financially support this baby? Are you carrying it? Did you make it? If you say no to any of those questions.... Shut your mouth! I only had to say that once in my first pregnancy... And I have a feeling it will never happen again.
I love the names you all mentioned thank you for sharing! The girl name I'm in love with is Aubrey Jayne but boys we are still struggling with and don't have anything set. I love Evan James but Evan is DH's middle name and if we have more than one boy I don't want him to feel left out because he isn't named after his dad. I don't know if they would or not
we told with our first and second but we got some negative comments with the names that we choose. For our third we only told everyone the first letter in the name and it was kind fun to have the family guess what the name was until our daughter arrived. I think we are going to keep the name a secret until this baby is born plus we are having a hard time with names this time around.
I love the names you all mentioned thank you for sharing! The girl name I'm in love with is Aubrey Jayne but boys we are still struggling with and don't have anything set. I love Evan James but Evan is DH's middle name and if we have more than one boy I don't want him to feel left out because he isn't named after his dad. I don't know if they would or not
I don't think it would be an issue. You could just give the second one a family name too and it's all good. My middle name is my Mum's middle name (but she goes by her middle name, so my middle name is essentially my Mum's name...if that makes sense) and none of my siblings have ever expressed any issue with it. One of my sisters gave her first boy her own maiden name as a middle name, then her second got my mom's maiden name as a middle name, third got his dad's middle name as his first name, and then at her 4th and 5th boys she just gave up, lol.
My husband's middle name is at the top of my boy list too. It's also my brother's name and my Grandpa's name. Maybe it's overused...
I told everyone with #1, all good reactions, I've also told everyone what it will be if a boy or a girl with this one and I've gotten mixed reactions. I couldn't care less, it is what it is. Then again I have very thick skin and I'm not afraid to tell someone to stfu
@Emztron500 thank you for the input! I'm glad to hear it more than likely wouldn't be a problem! I really love the name Evan so I might keep that as a top contender
I didn't tell anyone with my first. We did tell people with our second. I made the mistake of allowing my husband the privilege of naming our son. Oh, the horrors. And people's reactions were horrid. Our little son's name is Oswald, but we most often call him Ozzy. I absolutely hated his name when he was first born and so did pretty much everyone else. But now everyone loves Ozzy and says it fits him so well that I'm glad we named him that.
With that said, I'm sure neither of us will be able to keep our mouths shut and will probably get more criticism on this one's name!
Re: Tell people your names?
Well, like I said, ours are family names.
For girl we chose Dania Jean (dania is my abuelas name who died of cancer when my dad was 13 in Cuba, and Jean is DHs grandma)
For boy we chose Anthony Michael (Anthony first came up cause people always say DHs name wrong so it was kinda a joke but then I thought more about it and in my family we have a lot of Antons which is the Croatian "Anthony" and Michael is American for Miguel, my abuelo)
I also don't want them to start calling my (eventual) Bump a name and then be disappointed if I change it
Hey! We're expecting!
Hey! It's a boy!
Hey! His name is ________!
Also- our kids have uncommon names so we don't want peoples opinions.
Funny story... When I was born my grandmother hated my name & my whole life called me by a nickname that she made up at birth... She told my mom that my name didn't suit me and no granddaughter of hers would be called that... Ha!
My mom is the opposite. And I don't have a MIL (passed away).
Me: 29 / Hubster: 31
Married July 2010
DC #1 Oct 2013
DC #2 EDD June 2016
Me: 29 / Hubster: 31
Married July 2010
DC #1 Oct 2013
DC #2 EDD June 2016
To answer PP:
Names I/we like are:
Emma, violet, vivienne, Sienna, Paige, Evelyn
Grant, Ezra, Jonah, Silas, Elijah
ETA: posted before I was done. Doh!
Me: 29 / Hubster: 31
Married July 2010
DC #1 Oct 2013
DC #2 EDD June 2016
With that said, I'm sure neither of us will be able to keep our mouths shut and will probably get more criticism on this one's name!
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