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I’m pregnant with our first, and we’re purposely not naming the baby until we’ve had a chance to meet him/her. We don’t know the gender, so we’re going to the hospital with a few names we like for each gender, and we’ll decide which is best. We’ve got 2 full girl names, and 2 full boy names, even though I’d actually like to make that list longer just in case the names don’t suit! And remember, there’s no rule that says you have to decide on a name right away anyway. We’re planning on taking a week or so and trying out the name, just to see how it feels. Where I live in Australia, we have 30 days to name a baby, and people often use that time to be absolutely sure. My parents took 10 days to name me, and friends of ours took almost the full 30 days to name their daughter.
Not pregnant yet, but we won’t be naming baby until we see him or her. We will go in with a list. I just don’t want to jinx anything or find myself changing my mind at the last minute.
However, I know people who like to have the name picked so they can “talk” to their belly, instead of just calling it a little bean or baby.
We picked out my son’s name around 6 months into the pregnancy. But we didn’t tell anyone his name because we wanted to reserve the right to change it, just in case it didn’t feel right. We had some backups, but didn’t need them. [name_m]Konrad[/name_m] just felt right.
This pregnancy we have taken longer to settle on a name. My husband is ready to pull the trigger on one name but I’m a little more hesitant. I think we’ll do something similar though, go with one name that is our top choice but have backups ready. We’re still not telling anyone for that reason - and I like to keep it a surprise anyway 
With our first we knew what her name would be from early pregnancy but with our son it felt a lot harder! We didn’t know the gender, and trying to find a name that worked with DD’s was harder so we just had a short list for our second. Once we saw him though it was pretty easy to pick a name that we both loved from our list for him.
We adopted our first son, so we were not actually expecting to get to name him. His birth mom asked us to, though. So we came up with a list, in case she hated our top pick. But she really liked it. Then we had our doubts that it really suited him after he was born, but we certainly weren’t going to change it since the one thing she had asked was that his name not change. But now, 4 years later, he loves his name and it fits him perfectly.
With our second son, we both wanted to wait till “we met him first” before we named him. I always thought it was weird to name a baby before he was born. Then we went in for the 19 week ultrasound, and we both immediately knew that this was [name_m]Solomon[/name_m]. We started calling by his nickname ([name_m]Solly[/name_m]) right away. Our older son was about 3 1/2 at that point, and it was really helpful for him to have a name for the baby. Since we told our son, we didn’t bother trying to keep it a secret from anyone. We did not meet with universal approval on his name, but we also really did not care what anyone thought about it. [name_m]Solly[/name_m] has since joined us on the outside and neither of us have any regrets or wish that we had held out on naming him. His name fits him perfectly.
If we ever have another child, I have no idea what we will do. With each of our sons we have seen first hand how an actual baby can completely change your mind about things you were absolutely certain on beforehand.
Picked both of our daughters’ names before the 19 week gender ultrasound and never looked back!
Not 100%, but we hadn’t thought of any solid alternatives, so in the end we went with the 1 and only that was on our list!
We had the name a few months into pregnancy but switched both his first and middle name toward the end of the pregnancy. My husband designed a poster with his full name and brought it to the hospital, he taped it to his bassinet. The nurses thought it was a great idea. I kept it and have it in a memory box.
We picked our sons name around 7 months of pregnancy, but didn’t announce it until a few weeks before he was born. Most of or family new what we had chosen, though. I was a little sad that we went this route, because when he was born he looked without a doubt like a [name_m]Liam[/name_m] to me. But it didn’t matter much. My husband was set on his name, and we had things monogrammed already, etc. Looking back I’m glad I didn’t switch it to [name_m]Liam[/name_m] last minute. His name is not so popular, and really suits him well.
This time around we have [name_f]Cora[/name_f] picked out, though no clue on a middle name. We still have a few months to decide before she’s here though!
We picked our name very early on and we were definitely set on it after the first ultrasound. It will likely be different with #2!