Revealing Your Name(s)

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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

[pollysweet.livejournal.com]

Well this is a subject I think about alot. When we were pregnant with our first, I read the advice about not revealing the name you choose until the birth and it sounded like solid advice to me. The article or book said that you would be taking seriously the opinions of people who you wouldn't let pick out the color of your living room. Ha. Lol that always stuck with me. Too bad I didn't stick to the plan with our second pregnancy. We revealed our daughters planned name on Christmas day at a family gathering a few months before she was due. Zoey Violet was going to be her name, but after my MIL turned her nose up and said some choice words and I replied with a comment about not asking her permission and there wasa huge explosion that took months to fade out. The name was ruined for me. Forever linked in my mind with her and 'the incident'. Our daughter ended up as Allison Snow. Which wedo love. So our best pregnancy was secretive again and so is this one. Family are used to waiting by now and it's true that you won't get much comment once the name is in stone!
The only problem this time is our six year old wants to know the name and we don't know if he can keep it a secret. ( and this time I expect most people will dislike the name we have chosen)
Anyway we have given him hints and if he guesses it we will let him know. Seven more weeks to go!