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[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

when my aunt was pregnant, she and her husband didn't want to know the gender, and they didn't share their unborn child's name options with anyone. when i asked, i was answered "if it's a boy, we'll name him giligan and if it's a girl, she'll be ginger." (of course, i was at the age where i wasn't sure i should believe them or not, haha). they would also say that the girl would be velvet and a boy would be corduroy.

if you were trying to be secretive about names, what would you "name" your children?

(ps, they now have two daughters, blaire and jenna. their middle names are not ginger or velvet ;) )

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[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

First off, I hate when people don't tell their name choices to family members. My husband's side of the family does this and it drives me nuts! I'm just interested in the thing growing inside you, I won't be stealing your name! No one else is pregnant here! Anyway.... With that said, we're hoping for 1 more baby here someday soonish and I've decided to not find out the sex and do the same to them and not tell names. Our last name is Collins so we'll be going with Collin and Colleen, hehe.

[chadwah.livejournal.com]

It could be less about the fear of "stolen" names than averting obnoxious opinions -- we waited until we had a certain name for both genders before telling, so that we didn't open ourselves up to "advice".