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I'm telling people as they ask me, which is fine. I just haven't make a fb official post or anything saying her name and all. Once she's born, I'll announce her with her full name, so that anyone who didn't already know will know.

We shared our name with everyone pretty early on but I had plenty of friends who wanted to keep it a secret until baby's arrival and that's totally fine!

We're team green, which a lot of people support, but there's a lot of pressure from us to hear our top name choices. We keep them to ourselves, though - mostly because we haven't fully decided yet and mostly because of your aforementioned 'don't want negative feedback'. There are some names on our list that will never happen that we keep around because they're funny and those we'll share.

Yep and it drove my MIL crazy! We actually didn't formally pick the names until they were born, but had an idea. We wanted to make sure the names fit them before we announced the names to everyone.

We kept our name choices a locked down secret until after she was born. I've never heard one word other than praise for what a sweet name it is and I'm sure if she wasn't actually born yet we would have gotten a few funny faces.

@Foodnerd81: One is Jean Luc, as in Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek. Also James May, as in 'Captain Slow' from Top Gear. I kid you know, they're on my list.

We won't share.

We did share our LO's name before birth. But will keep it a secret for our next LO and reveal at birth.

@grizz: I printed up game cards for the shower w/options for 1st and middle names, then announced the name right before gifts- it was a good ice breaker, I think. But just b/c it's your shower doesn't mean someone won't say something rude about your choice! (SIL) --I think that's the case whether you announce early, late or after the birth, though

We shared it with our family and close friends. Our friends were supportive of the name but DH's family was not ... in the end DH told them its our daughter's name and that was that

@NaturallyCathy: Hahahaha!!!! I you for those. Love me some Trek and Top Gear!!!

We didn't share because we didn't have one. We didn't even have a real list going in. Picking a boy name is hard!

And people thought we were lying and just didn't want to tell them. You can't win sometimes.

We have told some people the name(s) we are considering - We haven't finalized a name yet. So not really keeping it secret but not really going out of our way to share either.

We kept it a secret. We told close family and friends we weren't telling. Other people we would say that we didn't want to hear our families' opinions and if we hadn't told them, we felt like we couldn't tell others. Random people who asked in the grocery store I just said we hadn't decided. Most people in our generation understood, though it bugged my mil and mom! Maybe since so many people find out the sex, it's the surprise that's left?

I thought it would be really fun to share the news with people after he was born. Unfortunately, my FIL texted my parents his name (DH told them, but I was waiting to feed LO before I called my family.) and my SIL put it on Facebook, so that's how my sisters found out. I was pretty bummed. His middle name is after my dad....how could they not think I wanted to share that myself?

We shared, not knowing people would potentially react negatively. A friend told me the name was boring. I see why people keep it a secret having shared it before LO was born.

We didn't tell anyone. Partly because we didn't want opinions, and partly because before I got pregnant, I thought it was totally weird to refer to someone by name who wasn't here yet (I totally get it now). But mostly because my husband and I wanted to keep it between us until our daughter was born. While I was pregnant we felt like we were the only ones who knew her, so we should be the only ones to know her name.

We were going to keep it a secret, but DH changed his mind and wanted to tell. That was fine with me, and I've told a lot of our good friends already since finding out we're having a boy. Nobody has had anything negative to say at all, and if they do, oh well! We like it and that's all that counts

I am happy a friend shared the name of his son with me. I was able to give his wife a personalized gift at her baby shower. No matter what he told me I knew I would compliment the name immediately. His son does have a nice name though!

@Grizz: definitely bc of unwanted opinions. I can't believe how rude some people are about names! And I want to have the excitement of revealing the name at birth as well.