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My ped said it varies dramatically by geographic region (even within the US).

We did not (and we live in VA, if that matters).

No (at the time lived in MA). Live in ME now and having another boy and he won't be circumcised either.

The national average was about half and half a few years ago, but it's been declining.
The CDC data, reported by the New York Times, showed that the incidence of circumcision declined from 56 percent in 2006 to 32.5 percent in 2009. According to these statistics, non-circumcision or genital integrity has become the normal condition among newborn boys in the United States.

I left this decision up to my husband. We did.

I did and I kind of regret it.

We did for both of our boys. I live in the South. I agree that it may largely be geography driven - most people I know circumcised their boys.

We did, and I regret it... So my answer isn't a simple "yes".

No we didn't, but we didn't have strong feeling on it at the time. DH is and in hindsight I think that he wishes that we had done it as all of his family had it done, but I'm like 'who compares penises, who would even know?!". His family started to push us on it after LO was born (like 6 months old) so we went to a urologist to look into our options. The urologist advised that it wasn't worth doing unless we had really strong feelings on it and so we didn't do it.
That said, I am from Europe where it's not done except for religious reasons so I don't really see the point unless you have a religious basis for it or some other strong basis.

No, and don't know anyone that has unless for a religious reason. (Boston)

I don't have kids yet. But if we have a boy or boys, we would 100% circumcise.

@SerenaSF: we got it done because a nurse at our hospital said you'd rather do it now than heaven forbid have something happen and you have to do it later (she then told us a lovely story about a 6 year old she'd cared for who had it done at that age due to infection). I left the decision up to dh and he chose to. Looking at it now it may have been kind of fear-mongering but it was one of the few decisions I turned over to my dh

We're Jewish, so we did.

I had fully planned on having it done, but when it came time to actually do it, turns out it wasn't even an option. It is considered major surgery where my son was born and the docs wouldn't even allow it, in the hospital or in their private offices.

@SerenaSF: I had people also 'worry' about LO 'fitting in" - my reaction was 'fit into what?' I can't imagine a circumstance where someones gentials determines how they 'fit in'. How would anyone even know, unless they are waving it around, which is an entirely different issue

@runnerd: ha yea I edited it to say that, at the time it didn't come off as that but I see it now.

We did not. Neither of us had any strong feelings about it either way--we're not religious at all, and didn't really care if he looked the same as D. Since we didn't have a strong reason to do it, we opted to do nothing. I know it would probably be traumatizing, but if when he's older and feels strongly about wanting it done for whatever reason, we'll pay for it then. We decided that we didn't want to make that decision for him.

We did.

I only have a girl, but I would if we did have a boy (I did not vote.) I just remember the one boy in HS who was made fun of for not being circumcised, he had it rough all throughout high school (I mean all of us girls knew even though none of us had seen it.) It's the norm in our area to have it done and I would follow that so my child wasn't made fun of like "John" was.