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We kept LO's name a secret until she was born. We actually didn't come up with a name until a week before I gave birth though. I'm glad we kept it to ourselves. DIdn't want to hear people's opinions and didn't want people calling my LO her name before she was born.

We told whoever wanted to know. We love the name we picked out, and that is all that matters to us.

I'm torn on this. We didn't choose a name for RJ until he was born (and we were team green so we weren't sure yet). Now that we know baby #2 is a girl, we're in the process of choosing a name, and SO many of our friends are pregnant this year, so I'm worried that I'll settle on a name and fall in love with it only to find out that someone else has chosen it as well. I don't think it would make me change my mind but it would definitely make me feel like everyone else thought I'm copying the other person.

I may announce 3 options just to "claim" a name

We didn't finalize LO's first name until about a week before she was born, but we shared our top contenders with anyone who asked. For me, I'm glad we waited until after the shower because we got lots of gifts with her name on them after she was born. I think we would have gotten even more if we had announced it before the shower. Personalized stuff is super cute, but not really practical for reusing, loaning, selling, etc in the future.

We were team green but we didn't tell people our top picks beforehand. We had 3 names for each and were waiting til we met LO to make the final decision, though we had a favourite boy and girl name.

No, because I didn't want any comments one way or the other until it was a done deal. Also, we wanted to made sure the name "matched" LO so we finalized our choice a couple days after he was born.

With DD I wasn't 100% sure until she was born and I saw her little face. DH knew the whole time but I couldn't commit.

Now, we've chosen a name but I get nervous about it so I don't want to tell anyone and hear any comments that might change my mind. I think it's a great name but I'm just worry that I won't like it the day of her birth anymore or it won't be right for her or who knows

No, and I really don't like when they ask!

Nope... I like having that just between me, DH, and DS. =)

We did tell our moms early on, but then DH's mom shared it like that same instance with his grandma so we didn't share it with anyone else.

Thankfully since then she's kept her trap shut! lol

@betsyboop: I don't like when people ask either... and dislike it even more when I get the stink eye for not sharing. What the heck is wrong with people?! lol

Nope we kept both our names secret until prettybaby arrived DH announced the name to our families when he announced the gender

If people asked we told them but primarily only family and close friends. But it's no big secret because my friend made a name banner for our baby shower and the pictures all over facebook! hahaha.

I can understand why people want to keep it a secret though. Too many opinions and people stealing names!

We did a name reveal at my baby shower and that was so fun! We made it a word scramble and it was fun seeing what people came up with. Of course we were subject to peoples opinions but we loved the name and that's what mattered to us. Most people liked it though, so that's good.

I don't regret sharing it at all. It would have been hard keeping it to myself, especially since EVERYONE asks that the whole pregnancy.

We are team green, but we have a couple options, we have shared them with a couple people, but we don't tell everyone that asks. From now on we aren't telling anyone else until LO is born (due date is only a month away anyways!)

We had names picked out right away. We knew if it was a boy, we would be having a Jr. so that was settled. But then we picked out a girl name right away, too. We told our families, and at this point, most people at least know her nickname, since we tend to call her by that the most.

We did get a couple of comments from my Dad about the middle name. His name is Stephen, and his Mom (my grandma's) middle name was Stephanie so we wanted to use something to honor them both for baby girls name. We decided on Stephana and her middle name, since it's a Greek name and DH is Greek. We would have used Stephanie, but her first name rhymes with that, so we didn't want to. Dad was convinced that we just made it up. haha..

We did, I'm not good at telling people no. But we didn't decide on a name until about a month before LO was born and once we were set I figured they were going to find out some time.