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So did you ladies tell everyone the name you picked out for your LO(s) or did you keep it a secret until the birth?

We told everyone. And I have to admit, I kind of regretted it. Because everyone gives you their opinion and it isn't always good.
The last thing you want to hear when you're super excited about your baby is, why are you naming him/her THAT?!

We had our names picked out before our gender ultrasound so we immediately told everyone.

One positive of ppl knowing her name was that we got alot of personalized presents.

Let me start by saying that DH and I had names picked out for our kids before we were ever married. And yes, I realize that we're weird.

We didn't want to find out what we were having the first go around, so we would always share our two names that we had picked out. We never really had a negative response - so I guess we were lucky.

With #2 she was going to be Campbell either way (since it's a family name) - her middle name would change whether she was a boy or girl. My mom did tell me later that she really wasn't sure about Campbell's name - but then after she was born it really suited her personality. I think that was the only borderline negative comment.

With Mason we found out what we were having, but we didn't decide his name until more than halfway through the pregnancy. We had used our names with the first two and had the hardest time coming up with his! DH and I went through all kinds of books and websites - and just couldn't decide on anything.

We shared names that we liked, but we honestly didn't know what we would name our baby girl until we met her. I had always loved the name Maya and we wanted to give her a family name too (after her GGM Georgiana). So thankfully her name finally came to us in the hospital once we saw her and decided to name her Maya Georgiana.

GG, we had our kids names picked out before we were married too. And we did tell people and got a lot of approval for Aidan, except a lot of people said, "thats getting so popular". When I tell people the name I have picked out for a little girl, I usually get "don't do that to her!" which really pisses me off. We have the name, "Arabella Anne" picked out, and want to call her Bella. I don't see why people have such a problem with Arabella!

April, who cares what people think? Its yalls kid not anyone else so do whatever the heck you want to.

Oooooo....I like Arabella. I love Bella for short too.

thanks! It has been mainly my family who had a problem with it to begin with. And I have one friend who says she thinks of a cow every time she hears the name. But, I am still gonna name my little girl that, no matter what.

Yes, we told people Will's name before he was born. Actually his name is William. He's named after my Grandpa, who passed away a few years ago. Before we found out if we were having a boy or a girl we tried to pick out names for both. We decided on the boy name pretty quickly, but never could agree on anything for a girl. For some reason we just knew he was going to be a boy anyway. We'd probably STILL be trying to come up with a name if he had turned out to be a girl. Every now and then if I hear a girl's name that I like I will mention it to DH (just in case the next one is a girl), but he never likes any of the ones I like! We have agreed on a middle name for a girl, though- May. My middle name is May. So, is my mother's middle name and my grandmas on both sides of the family. It was also DH's grandmother's middle name. My grandma on my Dad's side of the family spells it Mae, though. I've pretty much know my whole life that if I had a girl someday her middle name would have to be May! So, good thing DH has agreed to it. Who knows what we'd do about a 1st name though!

WE told everyone fake names for exactly the reason you said, Kristi -- people had told us we'd regret hearing all the opinions everyone offered (unsolicited!). And, knowing my strongminded New York family, I just didn't want to deal with it. So we kept the real name top secret and kept throwing out fakes. It drove everyone crazy, and my husband -- bless his heart -- was so conditioned, that after our daughter was born, and the doctor and nurses asked her name, my husband asked me if it was okay to say it! I think he cracked us all up at that moment. I'm smiling now, just thinking about it.

We had a girl name and boy name picked out before we had the gender ultrasound although we had the hardest time cming up with a boy name that we both liked so we both just settled on something even though we weren't too sure about it, the only thing we could semi agree on, but we both had no problem with the girl name and really liked it - so I guess it worked out. I'm still thinking I don't know what we will name a boy one day if we have one being that my husband is from a different culture and all you have to take that into consideration also. Haha, funny, we already know of another girl name we like just incase we have another girl one day but still have the hardest time agreeing on a boy name incase we have one in the future.

My mom is the main one that gae me grief outloud. She wanted us to give the girls more "ethnic" names. For my first, her middle nam eis Louise she was named after my husband's mother who died in the early 90's, and my mom is very offended by us giving her his mother's name.

And the baby's name sis Emily and that was just too " white" of a name period and then I added skye as a middle name. I think she is still getting over that.

She will come to terms on it later. I refuse to let her give them nicknames outside of their first names too. No pookie, peaches or such. Just Katie and Emme

It's so fun hearing all these stories and the thoughts behind the names.
Boston Girl, ROTFL!!!
Darn those those strong-minded New Yorkers! I've got 'em too!
A few of the men in my family kept saying we were naming Jack John. We said no, it's Jack. Just Jack. And they didn't understand. They thought we were naming him John and calling him Jack. First of all, I would never name my son John because there's a bazillion Johns in my family. LOL. But when someone asks Jack's name in public those family members will say, it's "just Jack" to people. Like it's some weird name and no one will understand. LOL. It's actually turned into a running joke and my uncle now calls Jack "just Jack." LOL

ROTFL!! You said "just Jack" and it made me thing of Will and Grace. That was the name of Jack's routine that he always did - only when he said it he would throw jazz hands out...lol.

LOL
Actually that's pretty fitting because Jack is always dancing around here and throwing his hands out