Revealing Your Name(s)

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I was reading an online article about the "dangers" of revealing a selected baby name before birth.  (Open up to criticism, stealing, etc.)

In the comments they asked if people waited.  Some commentors told us their children's names.  I thought they were interesting:

Jezzek - (boy) revealed early to disdain, now a beloved name.
Chelsi - (girl) and due in July (Levi or Hattie) - Told everyone in advance.
Jacee - (girl) Told early, but changed to this.  Grandma had a fit and would only call her "Holly" which wasn't part of either name or middle name.
Adeline Harper Grace - (girl) Originally was Charlotte Grace, but a week before Sarah Michelle Gellar had a kid with the same name, and baby didn't "look" like a Charlotte, so telling everyone early didn't matter, the name changed.
Zoe - (girl) - told early and grandparents refused to use the name until they found someone else with it and learned it wasn't made up.
Julian - (boy) shared a "top names" list when asked, but never their final decision on the list.
Rowan (boy) - used a decoy name (Burchfield Mumford) when people asked.
Liam - (boy) was the name choice if first child were a boy, and told after daughter was born.  Bad reception  but still used on second child that was a boy.
Liam and Patrick - "reserved" names not used yet, but discussed and "claimed"  Other sibling also reserved: Seamus and Eoin.

Comments

[my-little-voice.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I'll do when I finally have kids. I'll probably keep it to myself because in the past my grandmother's been known to say that she'll refuse to call a baby by it's name because she doesn't like it. Also, when my best friend was pregnant, we went 5 months calling the baby Ben, even going so far as to have things monogrammed for the shower, and then in the last month of pregnancy things changed and the name was up in the air. And when it came right down to it, his name was changed to Jacob when he was born.