I'm 38.5 weeks along and DH and I decided on Bess short for Elizabeth as our DD-to-be's name months ago, and have been referring to her as Bess since. My austitic DSS (7) also calls her Bess all the time rather than 'the baby', which we think has been helpful in preparing him.
We haven't told anyone else in the real world her name as (a) I don't want to tempt fate and (b)I'd rather leave it until the big announcement when she's a real huggable bairn.
However, yesterday we fitted 'Bess' lettering to her nursery in excitment -looks lovely! My in laws are coming for a week next week and I'm torn whether to take it down and try to keep the name as a surpise, or let them in on the secret. I'm worried they might not like it -but then given we've gone as far as to buy lettering, I hope they'd bite their tongues if that were the case! I'm also worried they'll tell all their side of the family as MIL is lovely but not good at keeping secrets (their entire extended family knew about the pregnancy long before 12 weeks she was so excited!).
But then, my DSS will doubtless call the baby by name when they are here, so it may be futile to keep up the surprise.
Did you all tell people your names pre-birth? Any annoying reactions?