We're not finding out our baby's sex so we won't know what it is for another week and a half, but we've had our boy and girl names picked out for months.
Except for a gold thread here on HB, we haven't told a soul.
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We were still undecided until about a month before and even then I still reserved the right to change my mind in the delivery room
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Eh, a LOT of people but not everyone. I didn't make an announcement and I asked people to keep her name off of Facebook. But if someone asked me directly what her name would be I told them (and a lot of people ask). I just don't really get the secrecy. It would be one thing if we hadn't decided. But I didn't feel like I wanted to say "oh we know but I'm not telling you"
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We told a told a few people that were not family or close friends (like my doctor). It got hard to keep it a total secret towards the end because we wanted to know people liked the name. My husband even told our dentist haha. I also told my cousin I'm really close to because they guessed the correct name at Christmas time. We kept it a secret from everyone else (including our parents) because we found out the sex and wanted to have some surprise to announce to people when he was born.
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I voted other because we were also
. We were set on a boy's name and told people if they asked. We had many girl name options and didn't name R until she was about an hour old.
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I voted other because we didn't name him until the next day. So technically, we didn't know his name either.
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Anyone who asked but we didn't announce it.
My brother and SIL are due next month and my mom knows but she is sworn to secrecy. It's very frustrating but I can wait a few more weeks.
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Everyone. We did a formal announcement at my baby shower
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We were team green but had a girl name picked out and a few top boy names. We did not tell anyone- but since I was convinced she was a boy I did secretly tell my sister the girl name since I thought t didn't matter.
It was kind of fun keeping it a secret plus I did want to reserve the right to change my mind. But Dh was the one who wanted to keep it secret. Since I wanted to be team green I felt it was fair.
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@Mae: I did hate pretty much saying "I know but I won't tell you" to people- though it's easier wth team green I think. My sisters were so annoyed though!
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We were also TG so we didn't get that much pressure to reveal our names.
My sisters and parents probably had a good guess for our girl name, but our boy name we wanted to keep a complete surprise (it was my maiden name). We had a girl !
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I have two options(so I didn't vote):
With #1: everyone knew. We knew his. And and let everyone know it
With #2: we had 2 choices when we went into the hospital. The only people that knew our name choices were DH and I (and an awesome group of ladies
) nobody else knew because I didn't want anyone to sway us to one name or another.
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We put it on Facebook so pretty much everyone. We had told our parents and siblings before that though. We weren't going to tell anyone else but my husband really wanted to, so I but up a picture of our nursery when their name signs arrived.
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We weren't going to tell anyone before the birth but my grandfather became very ill and padded away when I was 32 weeks. In his last days we had a 3D ultrasound done so he could see her and know her name before he died. It helped me heal knowing he "met" her.
No one on DH's side, nor any of our friends knew her name until we announced her arrival. -
We formally announced the name at same time we announced gender. Before we found out gender we were very open with our name being considered for both boy or girl. I am in no way one to let others make me doubt my choice and I don't have the type of family who would try to. Of course you can tell when people don't love your name, but it doesn't bother me. And I don't find secrets to be much fun, so I was an open book
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Absolutely no one besides my husband and I. We never gave any hints or shared our short list. I was also very careful to give a neutral reaction to any suggestions. I don't know why I cared so much, but I'm glad we kept the secret!
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We decided by about 25 weeks what her name would be. We didn't announce it, but if friends or family asked, we told them.
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We told everyone. People in the South love monogramming everything
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We didn't have a name until the next day. She arrived so unexpectedly that I didn't realize we hadn't named her until the middle of the night.
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We announced her name when we announced her sex. I'm not worried about what people think or say. A relative even told me that "Sadie is a dog name" when we announced it. But, it didn't even phase me. People are crazy.
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We told two people. I read online that LOs name meant something like slut in another language commonly spoken in our area. I told a native speaking friend the name to get her opinion.
I also told my doula at our last appointment. It seemed to make sense for her to "know" LO before labor. We didn't tell any family members.
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We told a few close friends and family what we were thinking, but we never said this is her name because we were never 100% sure.
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Everyone for LO 1. Close friends and some family for LO 2.
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For #1, we kept it a secret between dh and I.
For #2, we told pretty much anyone who asked once we decided (shortly after finding out that she was a girl). Part of it was that we tried out names by asking our son to say them and he really took to one name and would freely call her by that. So there was no way we were keeping it a secret with a loud mouthed two year old around.
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I only told HB!
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We were TG so we didn't have any set names going in, only a short list for each gender. We did share some of the names on our short list with our parents and a few other close family members but that's it. Most people, when they found out we were TG, didn't ask about the name other than if we had some choices narrowed down.
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We told no one except one single close friend, and that was because she is an artist and drew a mural on LO's nursery wall, and part of that included her name.
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We didn't know the sex, and we honestly didn't choose the name until after he was born! So I voted other.
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We were team green and told maybe 3 people our name list. I just got tired of all the input.
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Yep, we told everyone.
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I voted "other" because JUST my sister knew. And even then, she only knew our choices, our probable front-runner, but not the actual one we had chosen. Partly because we didn't choose it until we were wheeled away from a c-section!
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Just DH and I, people are way too opinionated about names and we didn't want to hear it.
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Other- only my husband and myself.... and my bff co-worker. We spent all day in a tiny office at our desks, I couldn't help it.
I told him again the second time since it was tradition. The last two weeks we told our siblings and parents since they had all been around to help us with #1.
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We didn't tell anyone. I wanted to be sure his name fit him and I didn't want feedback from students, coworkers, friends or family!
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Team green so no one knew! We had a few choices for each and told people but ended up naming her something different anyways.
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We told parents and my best friend, no one knew the middle names until after she was born though.
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We didn't tell a single soul. Not even strangers! We decided on her name early on, like 12 weeks. It's fairly uncommon so we just wanted to avoid negative feedback and it was just fun to have it be a surprise.
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We were Team
and didn't settle on a name (either boy or girl) until he was born. We went in with 3 girl names, and one boy first name with 3 middle names, lol. So I voted other just because not even WE knew -
I didn't want to tell anyone, but my mom got really sick at one point and was avoiding going to the doctor so i made a deal with her that if she went, I would tell her the name and so i did. Then I gave permission to DH to tell his parents because he never understood why I wanted to keep it a secret and he only wanted to tell them. No one else knew, not even WB/HB.
Oh I did tell people that the name would be pronounceable in two languages and my friends started guessing. One of them guessed the middle name but I was good at acting nonchalant.
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I voted other because I never announced it, but I would tell people if they asked. So most of my friends and family knew, and a few strangers lol
. We were set on a boy's name and told people if they asked. We had many girl name options and didn't name R until she was about an hour old.
) nobody else knew because I didn't want anyone to sway us to one name or another.
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