HT: Baby names
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Topic: HT: Baby names
Posted By: Renata85
Subject: HT: Baby names
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 2:53pm
| Should you tell your baby name ideas to your friends? Have you lost a name by doing so? |
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Posted By: BrightSilverstar
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 3:01pm
| I keep our names to ourselves I'd be so gutted if a friend or family member used it before we could |
Posted By: SethsMama
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 3:02pm
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I don't risk it.
I'll only tell people if I'm more pregnant than them, so I get to the naming before them. But I happily share names I like, just not the top 3 or so :) ------------- 
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Posted By: ryasmum
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 3:05pm
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: TheCatsMother
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 3:10pm
| I like to keep the names to myself, as I like that to be the surprise for family when baby is born. I also don't like to tell them before hand because I don't want other peoples opinions on the name influencing my decision. |
Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 3:29pm
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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. ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: Leelee
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 4:26pm
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I happily discuss names with family. I have lost a name by doing so but it was never a first choice so no biggy ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 4:35pm
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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. ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Posted By: Danda08
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 4:38pm
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The names were the only things we kept secret with our girls. Purely because everyone has an opinion on or knows someone with that name etc and if they don't like it will tell you but once the baby is here and has the name no-one comments (to your face anyway!) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: smw85
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 6:24pm
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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!!) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kiwiking
Date Posted: 07 October 2011 at 6:25pm
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We're keeping our name to ourselves, mostly because we don't want people to judge us, or make negative comment. Less chance of that happening when he's been born and named.
I don't think we will have a problem with anyone choosing our name as it's not that common. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: TheKelly
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 1:48am
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 08 October 2011 at 8:34am
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Everyone had an opinion before DD was born and some of the suggestions were strange.
However afterwards they all said what a lovely name and how well it suits her. I'm still trying to figure out if I can get away with calling our son (if the next one is a boy) William and not be accused of being some mad royalist. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Jenny_PracticallyPerfect
Date Posted: 09 October 2011 at 8:03pm
| 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! |
Posted By: Richie
Date Posted: 09 October 2011 at 10:11pm
I'm like Kelly - I discuss baby names with anyone and everyone. We had our boys name decided within 24hrs of getting our BFP and once we had 19wk scan and found we were actually having a girl (despite the fact we were both convinced it was a boy) we came up with her name and from then on in always referred to her by her name cause I hated just referring to her as 'bub' or 'the baby' and we will do the same next time around as well. None of my friends or family would ever DARE steal a name from me.... I'd make their lives living hell muhahahahahaha -------------  
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Posted By: minipig
Date Posted: 10 October 2011 at 9:51am
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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  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 10 October 2011 at 11:05am
Hahahahaha ditto to the living hell part  my babies are named within 3 weeks of the 20wk scan and nobody would dare suggest we changed the name OR use it - not that I'm scary or anything 
My cousin used 2 of my favourite names with their 2 boys but I couldn't complain - their boys are both about 18mo older than my 2! Still I got the 'discussion' about how I wasn't allowed to use the names at all for my boys because cousins (even second-cousins) with the same name is weird. Of course now we live is different islands sooooo.... -------------   
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nzlisajo wrote:Posted By: AzzaNZ
Date Posted: 10 October 2011 at 11:48am
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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) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Keolyn
Date Posted: 11 October 2011 at 5:00pm
| We told a few people in the beginning a name we had picked out but in the end named her something different! Although, ou DD is named Alice and if we had a boy, DH and I both love Edward but people will be mentioning Twilight until the cows come home and teasing us about it, so I don't know if it would be worth the hassle! But we wouldnt name a boy Edward just cos of Twilight, thats a reason not to! |
Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 11 October 2011 at 8:28pm
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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. ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived 
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Posted By: Halo2010
Date Posted: 11 October 2011 at 11:22pm
| With my first pregnacy i discussed names i liked with friends but found they where VERY vocal about my fav.s. One went as far as to comment that my daughters name was a "strippers" name and why would i name her that. So this time it'll be all hush hush, im not telling a soul. |
Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 12 October 2011 at 11:21am
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OMG I loooove talking baby names lol. But I like to think that if I share my fav names with my family and friends it's kind of like claiming the name ;) When I was pregnant with the twins I had the names decided as soon as I found out their sex. I remember getting a couple of bad reactions to the name Esmé but it didn't bother me in the slightest. One woman actually told me she thought I was cruel to name my child that lol. I know what I like may not be for everyone but I couldn't care less what everyone else thinks ;)
I'm not pregnant yet but I'm always thinking about names and batting around ideas with my Mum. -------------  
TTC #3 since Jan 2010 - PCOS MC April 2010 |
Posted By: rorylex
Date Posted: 13 October 2011 at 8:53pm
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with ds 1, 2 and 3 I had 2 names picked for a boy and came out with one name which stuck and i didnt keep it a secret at all. with ds4 I couldnt make up my mind with names i would decide on a name then change my mind he was going to be Elijah then Baydon then joshua, but when I finally did pick a name at 36wks I kept it to myself even in full on labour when mw asked dh if we had picked a name i managed to tell him to zip it lol, I held held my tongue long enough to let it slip so close to his birth lol. ------------- Mummy to 4 boys Samuel - 18.6.05 Rory - 15.7.06 Mason - 13.06.08 Emmett - 24.01.10 Baby #5 - cooking |