Couples who don’t share baby name

[Anonymous]

Is it normal to not share baby names you are thinking of or name you have decided on? Why?

[Anonymous]

This is pretty normal among our family and friends. We didn’t share the name for our two kids — didn’t want anyone’s opinion on it. A lot easier for folks to give a negative opinion/comment before the baby is actually here!

[Anonymous]

Yes, I’d say it’s normal. With one of our kids, we really loved her name and didn’t want anyone to ruin it with their opinion. Once the baby is born, people are more likely to hold their tongues!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty normal among our family and friends. We didn’t share the name for our two kids — didn’t want anyone’s opinion on it. A lot easier for folks to give a negative opinion/comment before the baby is actually here!

I’ll also add that if something happened (late miscarriage, stillbirth), it would be a difficult decision around whether to use the name for a child born in the future and we wouldn’t want judgement on whatever our decision was.

[Anonymous]

We didn't share because we could not decide! For one kid, we did not decide until after we brought her home. That was kind of a pain for the birth certificate, so with the next one we decided after the birth but before we left the hospital.

[Anonymous]

Totally normal! Sharing is also normal. It's really up to the couple.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we didn't share and told everyone we hadn't decided.
1) we have high drama family and didn't need the stress
2) the pregnancy was high risk and we held our breath through the whole of it. Didn't want to share.

Best decision we ever made.

[Anonymous]

It was already a hard enough decision for the 2 of us...we didn't need anyone else's input. If they didn't like the name. If they didn't like who we decided to name in memory of.

We didn't even find out the sex ourselves, so we had 2 names on standby, and we never thought of it as Baby Larla or whatever before birth. It wasn't their name until they were born.

[Anonymous]

Didn't share, didn't want opinions

[Anonymous]

Very normal and highly recommended!

[Anonymous]

I think in today's world where you know boy/girl ahead of time, some couples like to have something to announce at the birth. Either is fine imo.

[Anonymous]

Normal, unless you are my mother, in which case it's a crime that will subject you to an inquisition.

[Anonymous]

We decided on names ahead of time, but we didn't know our children's sexes until their birth, so we announced their names and sexes at the same time.

We didn't want other people’s input, including facial expressions made when they heard the names.

[Anonymous]

Yes because either you don’t want people to steal it, tell you they hate it or tell you that’s so and so’s dog’s name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didn't share because we could not decide! For one kid, we did not decide until after we brought her home. That was kind of a pain for the birth certificate, so with the next one we decided after the birth but before we left the hospital.

This was us too, couldn’t decide on a name until the day prior!