[MommaSunshine]

Will you be sharing your choice for baby's name with your family and friends before baby is born?
We have decided that we probably wont share with many people until the baby is born. I have so many critical family and friends, and personally, I dont want any negative opinions on her name. We started sharing my daughters name before she was born and I had a couple breakdowns because people criticized it and started spilling names THEY liked and reasons why we shouldn't have named her that. Its a sensitive issue for me lol, my DH and I sat down together and mutually chose a name for the baby WE made, ya know? So this time, im just going to hopefully skip it all together and not share her name until shes born (except with you ladies! and a few close, supportive people IRL!)

[summithorse]

We aren't sharing our names either. We are team green, just as we were with DD and I love the gender and name announcement on baby's birthday. My MIL is also quite critica, so I definitely don't want to hear her opinion. I may share the names here, once we decide on a girl's name.

[LoverlyJules]

DH and I are having trouble coming to an agreement on a name. We probably won't share with everybody IRL ... maybe just some family members.

[doremi]

Yep, we name our babies as soon as the gender u/s is done, and call them by name from there on out

[KMH]

We haven't shared anywhere...on here or IRL We just like to keep them to ourselves until the babies arrive.

[GiaTortilla]

Same here with my family, they're very opinionated and I'm not changing my daughter's name to fit their standards. It's MY daughter and my boyfriend and I will choose what we think she should be named, which is the name we have now. I haven't told any family, only my mom, who thankfully liked it. I thought about revealing it at the baby shower so that way it would be set in stone and no one would try to change my mind. But yeah, if the not the baby shower, then we will wait until after Riah is born to share her name.

[delaney24]

We have shared IRL but only because the baby is being named after DH & everyone kind of knew that would be the case already if it were a boy. We have shared our girl name choice with family, even though we don't have one yet lol.

I can totally understand keeping it a secret & I love the idea of the surprise coming with the birth announcement, but I think even if we're lucky enough to have a second baby I'll share as soon as we're set on it, for a kind of silly reason I guess...I worry that another family member or friend will take the name if we don't 'claim' it first haha. Yes I'm weird.

[AltMommy]

I'm not sharing the name with anyone except you ladies actually. My boyfriend has a overly opinionated family and they can be so rude and pushy. His mom has already tried pressuring us into naming him what SHE wants. And we both know she will be totally disapproving of the name we have picked. I just think that if my SO and I decided on a name together that is all that matters. He's our child, after all.


So I'm not telling my family either, even though they would be very supportive and probably love the name. I wanted to have it be equal.

[ride-through]

We've shared with close family members as we've gone through the process. With this pregnancy we've had a few different options and we haven't held back telling people!
I don't really care what people think of them - the family members that would likely be rude about it are not people we're in contact and on good terms with anyway, so it all works out.

[Lav]

We shared the name at our gender reveal party. I wrote it in pink with a little heart on a thick paper and stuffed it in the pinata. If anyone doesn't approve of our choice, they'll have to deal with it themselves. This is our child and we name it what we think is best, not what anyone else thinks.

[mandattu_02]

We didn't share Ryan's name until he was born & definitely won't be sharing this ones name either until she gets here. We have too many opinionated family members & friends. My MIL already tells me what names we should name her & why.....no thanks! Ryan's name probably wouldn't have gotten many complaints/comments, but this little girls name is something totally different and I know a few of our family members who would be very negative with there opinions.

[BabyLover]

We don't share the baby's name before s/he is born. Mostly because we don't want to hear everyone's opinion about it. I usually tell people we haven't decided yet and change the subject. I find sometimes people give you a hard time if they find out you're keeping it a secret.

[marinewife01]

We have shared with my parents, 2 of my sister and his dad. I will share the name with the rest if they ask.

[**Jenn**]

We learned the hard way with Liam not to share before the baby is born. We got a lot of crap for his name.

And since this baby has a more unusual irish name we definitely won't be sharing--same reason we didn't share Lochlann's name and we still got flack from some people about his name after he was born. We've told our parents her name but thats it.

Anyone that asks we just say we're still working on it. I may share her middle name since its "normal" and after my Great Aunt who passed away (Laura).

[GracieNAmelia'sMommy]

We JUST shared the name with both of our families. His family LOVED it. My Mom and 2 of my sisters are very opinionated, so we knew we would get some comments. So we expected it. My Mom is BiPolar and very negative and 2 of my sisters are her minis. My other sister and Dad LOVED it though and my brothers, well, I am not sure what they think LOL.

Nope. We have the same issues as many of you, with opinionated family members. My mom recently told me that she has come to accept the 3 out of 4 kids' names we have now (they are 9, 7, and 3) but still hates the 5 year olds name.

[momtorileyand]

Originally Posted by **Jenn**

We learned the hard way with Liam not to share before the baby is born. We got a lot of crap for his name.

And since this baby has a more unusual irish name we definitely won't be sharing--same reason we didn't share Lochlann's name and we still got flack from some people about his name after he was born. We've told our parents her name but thats it.

Anyone that asks we just say we're still working on it. I may share her middle name since its "normal" and after my Great Aunt who passed away (Laura).

If my son Riley wasnt a Riley he was going to be a Liam. I love Lochlann too.

We havent told anyone (except for you all and my best friend) that is is a girl let alone the name. they dont know that I know the sex but I have told them we have a name picked out for a boy and girl but are keeping it a secret.

[jessjillmama]

Yes we have already told everyone.

[mommaof4andhalf]

We went ahead and shared our name. I was really surprised that my side of the family kept their mouths shut. They were surprisingly pleased. I think that's because they have a certain respect for my hubby who will tell them exactly where and how to shove it.

His family was thrilled that we weren't really naming the baby Globerto Globby. I think they would have accepted ANYTHING at that point LOL.

[SabrinaH]

I think once we make a 100% decision we will go ahead and share, but I can certainly appreciate why people keep it to themselves. My mother let it be known that she disapproves of one of the name choices and prefers the other one we have. Oh, and apparently everyone she's talked to, and she's a big talker, likes the other name.

The other problem we've had is every woman suggesting their own name as a choice! Even my MIL jumped on that bandwagon suggesting that we name the baby after her. My DH is really hoping she isn't serious. Me too.