If you are not sharing your name choices with anyone...

...do you share them with complete strangers if they ask? My husband and I decided not to share the names with anyone. We literally have not told a single soul (same with my last pregnancy). Yesterday, I was in the waiting room at my OB's office and got to talking with 2 other preggos. We were chatting about our pregnancies, how far along, what we're having (turns out we are all Team !). Then, one of them asked me what our name choices are. I told her we are keeping them secret. She seemed totally fine with that but then I felt a little funny about it. I was in a room full of strangers, did it really matter? But then, I wouldn't have felt right telling either. I told my husband about it and he thinks it was silly that I wouldn't tell them. Just curious what others would have done!

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I plan on keeping it a secret but I don't think I would actually say "We're keeping it a secret", I'm just saying we don't know yet. I would feel bad telling people I know but I don't want to tell you.

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I don't think I could have said "We're not sure yet" because my due date is today .

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I will tell strangers. We are keeping it from family because I have a crazy MIL and she would have a million and one things personalized. I want to be able to change the name last minute if I feel like it.

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We have been avoiding name discussions with the family because we don't want to hear everyone's comments. Plus we still have no clue what we are naming him so that helps our case.. lol

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We have 2 names picked out for but when people ask, I just tell them that we haven't decided on a name yet, people are usually surprised but it is easier than telling them we are keeping it a secret.

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We were away at a B&B and the whole house was sitting down to breakfast and we got on the topic... we ended up telling the name, but it felt VERY weird to even say the name out loud especially to a bunch of strangers. We first said we aren't telling anyone and this nosy lady was like, well you'll never see us again anyway! She was right, but we still felt badgered into it.

I only have one friend who knows, and that's because she guessed based on initials-- but I am the only one to know her name (she's due 7 weeks before me).

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I wouldn't have told. People at work ask me and although I know it doesn't matter if they know or not I haven't told anyone anything....I just say we dont know yet

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We didnt tell anyone. even strangers

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i tell strangers, my neighbors know, a few friends know....our parents know, but the rest of the family has to wait, way too many opinions

its weird though b/c the people who do know the name call the baby by the name and its weird b/c i hope we end up using the name, i'm afraid we'll see her and change our minds

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Posted by wingsofsong

I don't think I could have said "We're not sure yet" because my due date is today .

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We didn't share our names with anyone because we didn't want anyone's opinion beforehand ...not even a stranger. We didn't want to hear what people thought of the names because knowing me, it'd be all I could think of for awhile.

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I would have not told strangers either. Names were a bone of contention with us (family names/tradition, etc.) so I did not even like to discuss it with anyone. The name subject always led to a stressful conversation and I did not want that to be associated with choosing our baby's name so I avoided it or would tell people that we were not sharing and people were fine with that.

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This time around I'm not saying anything to anyone! Although dh and I haven't even discussed any names yet...

I told the family to come up with 2 boy names and 2 girl names that they like for us to consider...but I also told them I would not say if I like them or not...

With dd I heard all the freaking comments...
from I never even heard of that name, not being able to announce it, to telling me they were going to call her cheese! My daughters name is Brianna (Bri for short)
I didn't let their comments influence me but it became so upsetting and stressful I told dh this time around it will not even be a topic of conversation!

MIL already started with me. She asked what if there was any name I ever thought of...the was always one but I can not use it now but when I told her the name she flat out told me oh you can't name your child that...there was a "name" in the family and they were a horrible person! So I looked at her and said well thier dead now so it really shouldnt matter!

Regardless of the fact that if its a boy I would not use that name anymore for my own personal reasons I still do not want to be told what I can or can not name my child!