I am going out with someone at the moment but not yet sure if he is “the one.” I’ve never discussed anything about names with him and probably too afraid to at this point lest he think I am trying to get serious too quickly, or he misunderstands my curiosity. But I am curious, when did others here first started to discuss baby names with your SO?
- [name_u]Early[/name_u] in dating
- Later in dating
- After engagement
- After marriage
- After conception
- On the way to the hospital

If you have any fun stories to share about how you first approached it, or what happened when you did, I would love to hear those too.
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I’m still not even 100% sure I want children, but as a name nerd, I’m always excited to discuss what I would name them, hypothetically. Been dating my BF for 5 years, and around last fall he told me that his brother and his brother’s girlfriend were discussing what baby names they liked. So it was an easy in to me talking about the names I like. I bring it up every so often since then, if we’re imagining the future or I find a new name I wonder if he’d like.
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Honestly? Probably by a 3rd date or something, which is SUCH a lesbian stereotype lol. We were both 20 when we first started dating, super young and nauseatingly in love. We’d talk about anything and everything so the topic of kids - whether we want them, how many, names, etc - came up very early on.
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