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We were team green, and hadn't decided on a girl's name. A few people knew our boy's name pick. I don't think we'd told anyone or girls name options because we were having a lot of trouble ageing on one and more opinions would have just made it worse.
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We were open about our name choices from the get-go. I don't understand the secrecy.
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@Applesandbananas: in terms of people keeping the name choices a secret, I totally get it. I was open with names we were considering at first and my family completely ruined names for me. They were not nice about names we were seriously considering.
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@swedishfish: that's so sad! I'm grateful that didn't come up for us.
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We didn't announce it, but we told people who asked. We openly discussed our short list with our families, but they wouldn't try to change our minds on anything and they had some good suggestions for middle names.
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We didn't tell anyone!
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We had a few name choices that we liked for each gender, but we didn't decide on a name until we woke up the day after she was born.
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We told our close friends/family our first choice and people started using it and then we changed our minds. So we didn't want to tell anyone else until we were sure. We went into labour with two choices and no one but us knew what they were.
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We told immediate family only. MIL did not react too well, and that made me decide I definitely didn't want to share it more widely - it's not nice having people be negative about your name choice, and they seem to kinda feel that they can do that before LO arrives! Once they are born it becomes much more rude somehow.
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The reason we're not sharing ours is because we have no desire to hear anyone's opinions if they dislike our names. I personally don't care if someone doesn't like the name; I just don't feel like hearing about it because it's not going to change our minds.
The way we figure it is, people are less likely to tell you they don't like the name after the baby is born, because it's too late to try to talk you out of it.
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