Is there anyone out there who knew their baby's name straight away?

We had picked Sam for ds1 but then when he was born I thought he didn't look like a Sam so we called him a different name. Ironically he grew to look like what I thought a Sam would look like!
We had a shortlist for ds2 but when he was born, I just fell in to calling him one of the names and then when dh started talking about other names on the shortlist I said I couldn't think of him as anything else now but the name I had started calling him.
Dh named ds3 when I was still pregnant.
I named ds4. Dh didn't really like his name but grew to love it.
My SILs "stole" all my girl names while I was having my boys so I got dd's name from nymbler.com. When I said it to dh he said "That's beautiful" so she had her name as soon as she was born. Sadly she died not long after and dh died this year.

I'm 16 weeks pg and we have our names including middle for either gender. We find out on Xmas day.

I decided on my DS's name when I was in my 20s well before I met DH and had DS (now 2). I told DH my names when we were dating and he agreed. So never any debate. Now pregnant with DD and I've posted in here a few times about that one! Never had a girls name in mind and we're both finding it tricky!

Well I think it is something worth thinking about. I am sure there are some aspects that the initial thought doesn't cover.

We have two DDS.
I have always had one boys name I like, and three girls names I like.
So yes we already had it.
I worked my way down the list. So now pregnant with third DC (don't know sex) we have one name left for either boy or girl.

I knew the first 2 at the 12 week scan when found out the gender. Had run out of idead by the third so that took a few hours after the birth.

I actually started looking for my baby's name as soon as I found out that I was pregnant! haha

I knew as soon as the sonographer told us he was a boy (which I of course already knew)

I had my names chosen whilst I was pregnant.
It was pre finding out the sex of your baby days.
I had a girl's name and a boy's name picked each pregnancy (3)
My three children were registered before I left hospital .

We always knew if we had a daughter her name would be Saskia...and then at the 20wk scan when we saw it was a girl, we just smiled and simultaneously said, "Hi Saskia!"

Yes we knew our son's name as soon as we found out we were having a boy as he is named after a family member. Finding it very stressful not having a name this time!

I knew from the age of 10 that if I should have a daughter her name would be Ottilie. It was my Great Nan's name, who I did know. I was told her name when I was 10 and been totally in love with it since. Her middle names were a bit more problematic, after I inadvertently created a family politics naming issue when naming DS and made a rod for my own back.

DH thankfully is very laid back and although at first he thought Ottilie would be a better middle name, he came around soon enough.

DS2 & DS3 were named shortly after finding out they were boys at the 20 week scan.

With DS1 it took a few hours after he was born to decide on a name, mainly because we hadn't found out the sex in advance & I was totally convinced he was going to be a girl & only had a girl's name picked out.

I'm only 13 weeks and have a perfect girls name decided with middle names and everything, but boys will require more work! I have been vaguely thinking of baby names since I was about 4 though...

Yep about 10 years before I had her, when I first met DH I said one day I'd love a girl called DD's name. He said it was his favourite girls name too. We couldn't decide on a boys name at the time.

Several years later I said if we had another baby and it was a boy I loved DS's name and didn't know why I hadn't thought of it before. DH said what a great name.

Six months later I was pregnant, we couldn't come up with a girls name but were set on the boys name.

Neither time did we find out the sex in advance.

I knew the names I wanted to call a boy and a girl since I was a teenager. Met DH in my thirties, told him the names, he agreed they were awesome, so I had kids with him.

Yep. With dd, I wanted either name a or name b, both very similar. I suggested both to dh, he said he liked name b. Job done.
Ds was a different story!

Yes. Both the dc's names were picked in the first weeks of pregnancy with dc1. Who turned out to be a boy. Then the alternative girls name was used with dd a couple of years later.

All 3 of mine were named long before conception.
DH had DS1's name picked out when he was a teenager. He was lucky I happened to love it!
We chose our girl name on our first date but didn't get to use it until DC3. I started a thread on here about the spelling, and went with MN advice.
DS2 was named when DS1 was a week old. My DM said, 'So will you have another? What would you call him/her?'
Had DD been a boy, there would have been numerous threads on here because we had nothing.

We had boys and girls both picked from when we started ttc. We did reverse the boy order about 15 weeks in though (i.e. Before I knew he was a boy)

I let DH choose DD's name and he knew straight off what he wanted. I chose DS's and changed my mind a bit.

Girl's, yes. Boy's - I decided four years ago and have been wearing DH down since. "Oh look DH, that's where little Johnny will go to school..."

6 months pregnant with DC1. Boys name was decided before even TTC and the entire name (middle names as well) was confirmed in early pregnancy. Few ideas for a girl but will probably decide for definite when baby is born, if it's a girl obviously.

We had names years before having the children, both based on people we'd liked. We did dither when they were actually born but it was the middle names that gave us more problem.