We told our family and friends the names before each child was born.~ Only once did we change the name and that was with my second. He was originally going to be named Crayton, a name I love and also my husbands cousins name. A couple weeks before my son was born I decided I wanted him to have his “own” name, not once shared with a family member, also I didn’t want confusion whenever we were with my husbands cousin, so we named him Joshua Crayton~
I did have a bad experience with my last child’s name.~ I asked for opinions, as I wasn’t sure what name I wanted and unfortunately (lol) I got opinions~ I got so very nasty comments on his name, and almost didn’t name him the name I loved because of it.~And being pregnant and more emotional then usual, I was very upset, cried for days, till my husband said “we love this name and how really cares what others think.~ We know this baby will be loved whatever his name is, so don’t stress about opinions.”~ I learned not to ask opinions unless I was prepared for all opinions~ And his name is Jude~ he’s now 7 weeks old and my husband was right~ who wouldn’t love this little guy whatever his name is?~

i’m with mairead… my mother broke a huge english-language rule, and decided to NOT put the “u” after my “Q”. never in my life has anyone spelled my name right, without me straight telling them how it’s spelled (usually having to repeat myself, and/or say, “no, NO ‘u’.”). then some people get this look like, “what the heck, don’t you know there’s supposed to be a ‘u’?” and most people continue to spell my name wrong anyway. i don’t know if they do it by mistake (most likely, it’s like a reflex) or if they think their way is better.
i can understand online, people will think it’s a typo, but i wrote to pen pals for yeeeears, and got a dozen different spellings, though i always signed my name the same. :/

i hope i haven’t come off sounding snotty, but i sooo wish my mom had just chose jacquie, jackie, or even jacqui. it would be too weird to change it now, though, as i’m well into my 20s…

We found out the sex of both of our kids before they were born. Our oldest was originally going to be named Courtney Shea, but after a couple of months of that we started second guessing ourselves. We finally looked at a baby name book and picked out about 8-10 names we liked. We listed them into 2 columns and tried to various combinations to see what they would sound like w/our last name. We couldn’t agree on any of them for the first name. The one thing we liked was using a “family” name for the middle name. So…on to how we got her first name. Well, we were watching the movie “Aliens” (honest truth) and I blurted out, hey, how about Ripley? My hubby looked at me like I was crazy. Okay, I said, Ripley, Ripley,Ripley, um how about Riley? My oldest is named Riley Elizabeth. The 2nd daughters name came from having relatives in Australia. Our second daughter is Sydney Eleanor. Both middle names are family names. They fit each of them perfectly!

My husband n I juz want 2 give my babies name is Madeo Benjamien, Raoul Maximilian for the boys And Charlotte Rosemarie, Sarah Eustacia ..
That’s all

My Husband an I have had a girl and a boy name picked out for years. We’ve been trying for 4 years and are finally pg. We told everyone both names as soon as we found out, partly because ther girls middle name is my grandmothers and she has cancer and most likely won’t make it to see the baby so we wanted her to know the name. and the boy will be named after my husband. One of my sisters of course had make the rude comment that the boy name sounds like a law firm or an accountant. To which my husband and i said that our kids can grow up to be whatever they want to be, and its not any of her concern. We weren’t trying to be rude but with that particular sister you have to lay it out like that or she’ll never lay off, she hasn’t said a thing since.

I told everyone what I planned on naming both of my girls. I don’t see why its such a big deal. I don’t care if you don’t like it, this is my child I’ll name her what I want. Ya know??

My parents decided we should be the first ones to know our names. I really like that idea, it’s my name so I like that I knew it first.

Also people who choose nice names and an unusual spelling- I consider that cruel! I love my name because it’s Irish and so is the majority of my family but new people pronounce it wrong all the time and I’d say please think twice before changing the spelling of your child’s name!

My mum told people mine and my sisters names before we were born and low and behold, just two years later, there were a set of kids in our town called exactly the same. And not just first names, the whole entire name! The mother, who knew my mum a little, didn’t even have the courtesy to mention it to my family! Now people that know both families always say to me ‘Oh you have Phoebe and Lola’s names!’ and I have to say ‘Actually, no, their mum stole our names!’. For some reason, I feel the need to defend us! I think the other Phoebe and Lola’s mum did them an injustice by name-stealing lol.

Btw, my mum learned her lesson with my brother and didn’t tell anyone his name until he was registered!

umm since i was a young age i have told all my friends the names that i am going to name my kids lucky for me i had quads so i could use them all their names are Jayln Nicole, Riley Elizabeth,Kali Michelle and Landon James. Kali is pronounced (kaylee)