How far along were you when you decided baby's name, or was it after birth?
We decided our baby's name soon after the anatomy ultrasound, even though we had agreed not to discuss names til we knew the gender! It just so happened that boys names were much easier for us than girls names 
However, I have a friend who is due in a few weeks and they still don't know. I'm pretty sure we'd be in the same boat if we were having a girl. When did you decide?
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
We actually had already picked out a boy's name well in advance of even getting pregnant! Like years in advance - we just had both liked the name! For a girl, we agreed on it around 16 weeks or so, a couple weeks before my anatomy scan.
persimmon / 1479 posts
My first didn't have a name for 3 days.
My second we took a list of 3 names that we really loved and chose one of those right away.
My third we weren't super loving any of the names on our list and it took us a couple hours after she was born to pick one. Luckily she was born in the middle of the night so we had time before everyone started asking us.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
At 20 weeks for my LO! I am still thinking of names for baby 2 and I am almost at 30 weeks.
pear / 1812 posts
We decided on our girls name YEARS before TTC. Infact, before we were even married. lol. But for a boy? (Which I am pretty sure we are having. Wont know for a few more weeks though.) We are so stuck! We aren't into super traditional and "normal" names but we also don't want anything too out there... Also, all the names I like, he doesn't. Ugh... I keep joking that we had better have a girl because if it is a boy, he is so screwed on the name front! lol
persimmon / 1479 posts
@Mrs Hedgehog: We had names for a girl picked out that we loved with our second and I thought for sure we would use them for our third and for some reason the ones we had picked just didn't seem to fit. For a boy we knew our name from the get go, but of course it was a girl,lol. Good luck!
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
We decided on a girl name really early-- like, less than 8 weeks? Which is funny because we really hadn't talked about girl names much at all.
Boy names we have been talking about for years-- since before we were married-- and have come up with some favorites that eventually fell out of favor. We are still pretty stumped, but I'm only 17 weeks, so we have time. We feel like it's a boy, though we are team green and won't know until July.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
We were Team Green, and had hoped to go in with a boy name and a girl name, but we ended up going in with a short list for a girl with 3 names (one with more than one middle name option) and one boy name with 3 potential middle names because we couldn't agree on one.
After he was born DH asked me which middle name I wanted and we went with it.
papaya / 10473 posts
This is literally how our girl name conversations went:
I'd suggest a name. DH: "That's an old lady name!"
DH would suggest a name. Me: "That's a stripper name!"
Praise the Lord we're having a boy. We'd have gotten nowhere
watermelon / 14206 posts
We decided on a girl's name long before we were even married. We picked a boy's first name early on in the pregnancy, but never settled on a good middle name. We're thrilled to be using the name we picked out long ago.
pear / 1769 posts
Around 27 weeks we were 80% set on the name. I was still open to something better up until her birth, though.
cherry / 188 posts
We decided before we were pregnant. Then we picked the name we liked the best
cantaloupe / 6397 posts
We still aren't 100% and won't be until she's born! We do have a top choice though :), I'm 33 weeks!
coconut / 8681 posts
We were planning on waiting until he was born (DH's idea- definitely not mine!) but we picked a week before he was born
honeydew / 7586 posts
We had a boy's name picked out before I was even pregnant. We had our girl's list narrowed down to four names before the anatomy scan. Luckily, we are having a boy so it made the process much easier!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
We had discussed names before TTC. Then once we got pregnant, we decided to not mention names till we knew the gender. So we were in the doctor's office waiting for her after the ultrasound, I said well what about XX. He said that was his top choice. So it was a 2 min conversation. Then one night he googled middle names, so that is how that was decided.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I had decided on it before meeting DH, it was a month or so after our ultrasound before DH decided he liked it too 
coconut / 8861 posts
We decided his name right after he was born. He was born at 8:30am. We announced it to my parents at 2pm. When they wheeled us into the postpartum room, they left his part of the whiteboard empty until we named him.
kiwi / 613 posts
We talked about names we liked pretty soon after the first doctor's appointment (@ 6 weeks), but we didn't really start to pick the name until we found out the gender @ 20 weeks.
pomegranate / 3604 posts
DH had his first boy name picked out and I had my girls. So went the u/s confirmed we'd be having a boy he was named right then.
pomegranate / 3516 posts
We picked out a name for a boy and a name for a girl before we went in for our gender scan. She definitely fits her name so it worked out pretty well.
GOLD / grapefruit / 4555 posts
The first name was the easy part - he just looked like his name to me - but it wasn't until after birth that we agreed on the middle name.
nectarine / 2054 posts
It was one of our favorites early in the pregnancy and the frontrunner at the end, but we waited to decide for sure until we saw LO to make sure it suited him.
pomelo / 5866 posts
After getting pregnant but before the ultrasound. There was only one girl name we agreed on, didn't have any boy names for certain. So when we found out the gender, it was just meant to be. I never ever got any 'wow's' to our baby's name but we 'just knew' that was her name.
grapefruit / 4903 posts
We took two full names in for each gender (team green) and chose from them when we met her. The two girls options we'd settled on months/years prior, but the boys options were only final the week before. I'm still not sure our boy names would be right!
eggplant / 11824 posts
About 36 hours after she was born! LO ended up with a name that wasn't even on our short list.
grape / 80 posts
DD1 was 6hours after birth and DD2 was 4 hours after birth.
With DD1 (Hannah) her names wasn't even on our list and DH picked it flipping through the baby name book. And DD2 (Maisey) was on my long list but was not the top till after I saw her.
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