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

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Just curious, as I see so many threads with people trying to choose a name! :D

Before we even knew we were having a boy, we had picked out a boy's name. And we knew what the middle name would be straight away (if a boy, DPs dad's first name, if a girl, my mum's name).

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!"

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 .

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.