Not telling the name?

[Dream.A.Dream]

Anyone else planning on doing this? I don't think I want to tell people the name before bubs is here. As we're finding out the sex I want at least one surprise, also I'm worried that I'd tell everyone the name and then change my mind at the last minute. I think I'd rather have a couple of names in mind and see which suits baby best when they get here xx

 

[MUMOF5]

We arent telling anyone anymore as we are sick of people turning their nose up or telling us to call them their 'perfect' names of choice . Baby's name will be a surprise until he/she arrives. Im also thinking of keeping the sex a secret too , just to annoy everyone. I'll just say that baby was being shy at the scan. xx

 

[Eala]

We've told our parents and best friends, and that's it. In other words, people we know we can trust to keep their mouths shut!

We're not telling the world, partly to keep it a surprise, partly because we don't want anyone nicking the name before we can use it (which has been known to happen!) and partly because we might take one look at her and think "Nope, doesn't suit you"

 

[~KACI~]

We told no one with either of ours, except with Paige i told two of my friends when we went out for a meal, but that doesn't really count because i went into labour in the middle of the meal and had her 6hours later

Do what you want, i think its nice to 'announce' the name at birth

 

[FlyMami22]

with our first child, we told everyone what we were planning on naming her.. until she finally came out we named her something completely different lol..

and our 2nd we sort of just kept it a secret it was better that way for us

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

All the reasons mentioned above are pretty much why I don't wanna tell people. Mainly that people will say they don't like it or whatever...tough...it's my child and if i like the name that's all that matters xx

 

[JennTheMomma]

We won't be telling the name or gender of the baby until they are born. With Hunter we told them the gender when we told them we were pregnant, and they knew the name would be Hunter. But since we didn't have a middle name picked out yet everyone wanted us to name them a name they liked (except for my parents who completely left it up to us). Next time we're leaving the name and gender a secret.

 

[Pingu]

Whenever any friends or family ask me I tell them some of the names we like but never the ones we are likely to go with. I have a few people close to me pregnant too so don't want anyone stealing them lol!

 

[MiissDior]

I have two choices in mind and defo think il be sticking to them
family and closest friends will know but thats it....
the OH's Sister is preg at same time as me now but she due 2mths earlier
and they the type tha wud nick the name lol, so be kept competly tight lipped
now from those i dont trust lol xx

 

[Gunner's Mama]

Whenever any friends or family ask me I tell them some of the names we like but never the ones we are likely to go with. I have a few people close to me pregnant at the too so don't want anyone stealing them lol!

I do this too! My mom is always asking and dishing her opinion so I tell her a few names on the "list." Sailor is on my husbands list but not mine and I keep telling her that he really likes the name for a girl to get her goat.

 

[lollylou1]

we kept Annabelle a secret mainly because we hadnt agreed on a name but because i liked my name choices but i didnt want anyone critising them and putting me off as they took me ages to think of and be happy with them.
also the same as you we knew she was a girl so wanted a surprise!

Lou
xxx

 

[helz81]

Everyone knows were having a boy so were keeping his name as a suprise but I worry about not saying then someone using the name before me making it look like I copied, but at the same time I don't want to tell people his name incase they steal it knowingly! Can't win! I have 2 friends due 8 weeks before me, one knows she havin a boy, the other hasn't found out..I worry that my name will get used!

 

[JayDee]

We've told everyone that he's a boy but when asked "have you thought of any names" we just reply "we've got a shortlist (of 12!) but we haven't decided and don't want to tell until he's born anyway". We only found out he was a boy a week ago and it's annoying how many people won't respect that and leave it there, and are trying to get us to tell what's on the list/what our favourite is etc. If it carries on much longer I might have to have a pregnancy tantrum!

We don't want to tell as don't want anyone putting us off the names we like by saying "oh i know i xxxx, he's really annoying" or "really?" or something similar. Also, we might decide he really doesn't look like a xxxx and choose another name from the list in the end. DH is already leaning towards a different name to the one he thought he would...

 

[Szaffi]

I have told a couple of our early ideas to people, and they did a good job of ruining those names for me. So I got off of the name hunting train for now, I try to keep a distance to the names I have in mind and see which one feels right.

Some of the names I love are widely popular at the moment, so it is a bit hard to come up with something good And I already know that there is definitely no pleasing everyone.

 

[lucilou]

we're not even really telling anyone what is on our shortlist, never mind what we choose, we don't want to be influenced by anyone. and partly we thnk it's nice to announce the name (and for us, gender) after the baby is born.

 

[Kirstin]

we're keeping it a secret

 

[Vicks]

We started talking about names to family & friends when we found out we were expecting and people had so many different opinions about whether they liked the names etc. We are 100% set on a girls name, so everyone knows that, but haven't told anyone the boys name (not sure of the sex of the baby yet).
I must admit, everyone's abit annoyed that we won't tell them, but we are now 100% set on both names and don't want anyone's opinions to change that.

 

[hivechild]

We're not telling the name until after the baby is born. I'll be surprised if we even have one definitely picked out before then!

 

[lady3]

We didn't tell anybody as we didn't want anybody putting in their 2 cents and giving us opinions on if they liked our name choices or not. Also, we had 2 names in mind and we weren't sure which one to use until she was actually born.

 

[dali]

i didnt give any clues until i had definatly decided on a name ( and it was unisex so it really was he one we were going with)
i knew once i had made my mind up no one would be able to change it with their opinions whereas if i had still been in name picking mode and told , someone might have been able to sway my decision