HT: Baby names

I keep our names to ourselves I'd be so gutted if a friend or family member used it before we could

I would like to think you can tell friends your baby names! but unfortunately sometimes they either decide they like that name or my bring the name up in conversation with another friend who is having a baby...then you hear that babies name is the one you talked about.
Most of our friends keep their baby names 'close to their chest' which is fine as we did the same before we had our daughter! i think we may have told 1 of me close friends but that was it (she never told anyone else)
so No i haven't lost a baby.

Appears that I go against the grain, I am happy to discuss baby names with family and friends. I have never "lost" a name although a friend did say that my only boys name last time later entered her list (we were due 6 days apart) and we discussed it and I told her to choose the name she wanted, not to let me stop her, altho as it turned out she had a girl and I had a boy. I don't mind getting opinions and suggestions on names, it doesn't necessarily change my opinion. And the name is kind of a surprise in the end anyway since we never know if we are having a boy or a girl.

I don't mind discussing names with family and friends though we don't do it all that often. We haven't 'lost' a name by doing so.

Everyone knew from the day we had our 20 week scan our baby was going to be called Nathan.

I think there was less chance of someone else taking our name because they knew we would name our DS that without a doubt. So they would be causing the double up.

In saying that, I have the same first and last name as my SIL and it's not that major. You soon work a way around same/similar names.

I think it stems from the latest trend of naming your babies with a unique name no one else as ( or can spell for that matter!!)

I discuss my potential baby names with whoever can be bothered listening.
None of my friend's are the type to "steal" my babies names anyway,and if they were...well I wouldn't be friends with them in the first place.

We decided to keep our names a secret, but told everyone the baby's sex. We figured that by keeping the names to ourselves, we would still have a surprise on the birthday :) I wasn't worried about people stealing the name, but was a bit concerned that people would press us to change it to a name that they preferred. As it turns out, this is what happened. When our son was born and we told people his name (Joseph Ezra), several family members commented on how we should have named him something different. By that point, it was too late, ha ha!

I don't mind sharing our favourite baby names.
None of our family or friends are pregnant so don't have to worry about them being "stolen"

Our boy's name is pretty much set, but not too sure on our girls name yet. Will have to wait and see what flavour we have at the scan

Edited by minipig

I love discussing baby names so did so with anyone who'd stand still long enough. We never decided on a name until meeting the baby though (and have never lost a name)

We dont share our name choice but mostly because I like some element of surprise. The other reason is Im also not a big fan of hearing other peoples opinion of our name choice. I also love discussing baby names with anyone interested, its good for ideas etc, but I dont say what our choices are.