Did you tell anyone the name of your baby before he/she was born?

[cinnamon]

We short listed and eventually came down to 2 if it was a girl
we didnt tell anyone.
We stopped discussing the name a couple of months before the birth.
So when she was born the midwife asked us if we had a name for her,I gestured to my husband and let him make the final desicion on the spot.
He was so happy!

 

[ctrbabe1]

We did, we told a lot of people. But actually in the last few weeks before she was born, the name didn't quite feel "right" anymore. It wasn't until she was born, that we knew her name should be Maya instead of Kaylee Anne. BIG difference! lol.

 

[mamaS]

I was given good advice to NOT reveal the babies names before birth as some people are insensitive and will comment on your choice of name e.g. "how old fashioned", "like a pop star?", "ugh, I had a horrid aunt with the same name" blah blah .. whereas people seem to have more tact when youtell them AFTER the baby is born .
:banana:

Totally agree!!! i can announced the gender but not the name, it's personal, everyone will definetely have comments on it. Even my mom, i told her about our first option and she said it's hard to pronounce, from then on, i just posted at worldnames.com to ask for suggestion.

Bottom line is, whatever the name of my baby, the grandparents would love the kid.

 

[carang]

i'm canadian and my hubby is local chinese.
we agreed that i'd pick the english name and he'd pick the chinese name.

the only veto power i had was if it sounded like something in english....this was because i once had ataxi driver in HK named....

YU TIT MAN....


i thought there is NO WAY i'm taking a child named TIT MAN to canada....

my hubby said as a joke that he then vetoed my chosen name of Liam...it sounded like
LAY YUM in chinese... which means... you pervert!

anyway, finally came up with a mouthful of a name, but it works for us...

Liam Zachary Ng Ga Lim

did we tell people? i think that when people asked i said that we were considering Liam, but we'd wait until the baby came along...the chinese name was a family afair with all of the in-laws weighing in...

now we have to do it all over again, but this time for a girl!

 

[Isaac Mom]

My son was born in Seattle and we had not made up our mind of his English until he was born. We gave him a Chinese name after a month we returned Hong Kong, coz everyone here urged us to complete a Chinese name.

By the way, congratulations to carang to have or will have a baby girl

 

[carang]

thanks! very excited...

 

[shahirakk]

na - we had our baby early and had only got through the baby names book -boys names beginning with A, but we'd thought about other names and if anyone asked, we asked for suggestions. Lots of people suggested really interesting and unique names.

We wanted the sex and name to be a surprise TO EVERYONE including ourselves, but had a strong feeling we'd have a boy.

Lucky then that we got it right! Anyway, when our son was born and the midwife asked us - We knew we'd got the right name. Phew!

If we have the good fortune of having another child, I wouldnt want to know the sex of the child and would draw up a shortlist of names with my husband. I would definitely keep it all a big surprise. I thought it was much nicer that way.

 

[DTHY]

We knew I was carrying a boy and I really liked the name Zachary . When I told my family and Chinese friends that we were going to name our baby Zachary, nobody liked it because this is quite a difficult name to pronounce for most Chinese. Our friends kept making fun of the name and kept saying that I was going to have a Secretary!!!

As for the Chinese name...since my Chinese is not very good, we were open for suggestions until a few days before we had to get the birth cert. When I was carrying him, because my hubby's last name has the same sound as "sheep" in Chinese, we just gave our bub the nick name "Yeung Mo Mo" (Sheep wool). The funny thing was, when bub finally made his appearance, he hardly had any hair... Many friends had a laugh when they were trying to help us think of a Chinese name...all possible "sheep" related names were suggested! :flower:

 

[wengkin76]

Haha.

I told everyone.
This is my first child due in Feb'07. So I'm a little excited.

I even put a couple of names on my blog for visitors to vote!

Am I the only one this excited. :tmi

Regards
Weng Kin

 

[drcookie]

We had decided on a boys name and girl's name a few years ago, and so since we found out we are having a girl we have been using her name. For us it has really helped us connect with her.:banana: