Did you tell anyone the name of your baby before he/she was born?

Did you tell anyone the name of your baby before he/she was born?

  • Yes - we told everyone

    Votes: 36 30.3%

  • Yes - we only told close friends/family

    Votes: 28 23.5%

  • No - we hadn't decided on a name for baby

    Votes: 25 21.0%

  • No - we didn't tell a soul

    Votes: 30 25.2%
  • Total voters
    119
i had no idea what we'd be calling our daughter, cos i wanted to know what she looks like before i decide on a name that she'd be using for the rest of her life (hopefully!). both hubby & i agree that we needed to know what name suit her.
 
My husband and I decided not to tell anyone the name of our daugther in advance. We already told everyone the gender so we wanted to keep her name to ourselves. I remember that everybody got reaaallllyyyy curious! Friends and family went out of their way in order to get a clue...

Hubby and I stayed very tough through the end, though. Was lots of fun!
Like this, you still have a bit of a surprise factor.
 
We told anyone who asked, although it sounds like nursie's way is more fun. The unexpected dividend to that was some nice, personalized baby gifts.
 
It took us ages to come up with a name and we only made a decision a week before he was born. My parents were they only ones who knew, as they helped us create a list of possible names.
 
We decided the name a few years before conception - and booked the domain name! So, yes, we told anyone who was interested.
 
We didn't tell anyone although I did tell my best friend about three months before - she was about to have her baby and we dediced to swap names. We did tell people the sex.
 
I was given good advice to NOT reveal the babies names before birth as some people are insensitive and will comment on your choice of name e.g. "how old fashioned", "like a pop star?", "ugh, I had a horrid aunt with the same name" blah blah .. whereas people seem to have more tact when youtell them AFTER the baby is born .

If you don't believe me, try mentioning some names to people saying we'[re thnking of calling her/him xxxxxxxxx, someone will comment about it. (Not us understanding pregnant ladies of course!)

:banana:
 
We had decided on the name before we even knew when we would have a baby - it was like when we have a baby we'll name him/her .... We wouldn't have told anyone but my hubby accidently spilled the beans to my sister way before we had the baby. And course she can't keep anything to herself so my parents knew too. The only other person I told was a a friend who was also pregnant at the same time.
 
We had some ideas and talked about them w/ friends and family. Some were very blunt: for example, I got very negative feedback on the idea of Theodosia for my dd.

Choosing the European names was decided by dh and me alone. Choosing the Chinese names were more of a group/commitee endeavor. :)
 
We short listed and eventually came down to 2 if it was a girl
we didnt tell anyone.
We stopped discussing the name a couple of months before the birth.
So when she was born the midwife asked us if we had a name for her,I gestured to my husband and let him make the final desicion on the spot.
He was so happy!
 
We did, we told a lot of people. But actually in the last few weeks before she was born, the name didn't quite feel "right" anymore. It wasn't until she was born, that we knew her name should be Maya instead of Kaylee Anne. BIG difference! lol.
 
somebodyfamous said:
I was given good advice to NOT reveal the babies names before birth as some people are insensitive and will comment on your choice of name e.g. "how old fashioned", "like a pop star?", "ugh, I had a horrid aunt with the same name" blah blah .. whereas people seem to have more tact when youtell them AFTER the baby is born .
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Totally agree!!! i can announced the gender but not the name, it's personal, everyone will definetely have comments on it. Even my mom, i told her about our first option and she said it's hard to pronounce, from then on, i just posted at worldnames.com to ask for suggestion.

Bottom line is, whatever the name of my baby, the grandparents would love the kid.
 
i'm canadian and my hubby is local chinese.
we agreed that i'd pick the english name and he'd pick the chinese name.

the only veto power i had was if it sounded like something in english....this was because i once had ataxi driver in HK named....

YU TIT MAN....


i thought there is NO WAY i'm taking a child named TIT MAN to canada....

my hubby said as a joke that he then vetoed my chosen name of Liam...it sounded like
LAY YUM in chinese... which means... you pervert!

anyway, finally came up with a mouthful of a name, but it works for us...

Liam Zachary Ng Ga Lim

did we tell people? i think that when people asked i said that we were considering Liam, but we'd wait until the baby came along...the chinese name was a family afair with all of the in-laws weighing in...

now we have to do it all over again, but this time for a girl!
 
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My son was born in Seattle and we had not made up our mind of his English until he was born. We gave him a Chinese name after a month we returned Hong Kong, coz everyone here urged us to complete a Chinese name.

By the way, congratulations to carang to have or will have a baby girl :-)
 
na - we had our baby early and had only got through the baby names book -boys names beginning with A, but we'd thought about other names and if anyone asked, we asked for suggestions. Lots of people suggested really interesting and unique names.

We wanted the sex and name to be a surprise TO EVERYONE including ourselves, but had a strong feeling we'd have a boy.

Lucky then that we got it right! Anyway, when our son was born and the midwife asked us - We knew we'd got the right name. Phew!

If we have the good fortune of having another child, I wouldnt want to know the sex of the child and would draw up a shortlist of names with my husband. I would definitely keep it all a big surprise. I thought it was much nicer that way.
 
We knew I was carrying a boy and I really liked the name Zachary . When I told my family and Chinese friends that we were going to name our baby Zachary, nobody liked it because this is quite a difficult name to pronounce for most Chinese. Our friends kept making fun of the name and kept saying that I was going to have a Secretary!!!

As for the Chinese name...since my Chinese is not very good, we were open for suggestions until a few days before we had to get the birth cert. When I was carrying him, because my hubby's last name has the same sound as "sheep" in Chinese, we just gave our bub the nick name "Yeung Mo Mo" (Sheep wool). The funny thing was, when bub finally made his appearance, he hardly had any hair... Many friends had a laugh when they were trying to help us think of a Chinese name...all possible "sheep" related names were suggested! :flower:
 
Haha.

I told everyone.
This is my first child due in Feb'07. So I'm a little excited.

I even put a couple of names on my blog for visitors to vote!

Am I the only one this excited. :tmi

Regards
Weng Kin
 
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We had decided on a boys name and girl's name a few years ago, and so since we found out we are having a girl we have been using her name. For us it has really helped us connect with her.:banana:
 
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