Telling the family your baby names!

[Liddya121]

I'm 21 and have 2 boys Arkley and Huntley. And now having my first daughter 2 my children's father (been together 6 years )
We picked her name STORI
And now it's just telling the family because be4 we agreed on her name we aired it to the family with other names eg ..... bohdee .... Aspen... and no one was into her name. But we love it and we have all her stuff personalised. Do we tell now now with 5 weeks to go or wait till shes born so they can see the name to her face xx

Never tell anyone in advance, ever. Ever.

Never tell people the name before baby is born... just wait and announce after.

To be fair everyone has an opinion on names regardless of what they are.

If you're set and don't care what they think then there's no reason why you should keep it to yourself.

Beware of someone stealing 'your' name..
Keep it til the birth...

Do not tell. Nope. Never. If you're certain on a name and know people will be opinionated keep it shh till she's born. My son has an usual name and I know full well family members don't like it, I kept it hush till he was born so they couldn't change my mind because I love it.

Congratulations by the way I LOVE your name taste. Stori is a beautiful name. Xx

Thank you taste that's so different :) what's ur little boys name xx

Is it wise to be posting your kids actual names on mumsnet? They’re pretty identifiable names too...
Keep them to yourself I’d say.

I kept all my name choices to myself until babies were born and officially had a name. This is because i had 'the one' in mind with a couple of backups in place and if I had told my mum my thoughts she would have fixated on one she liked best and thought I would definitely choose then get the fucking hump if I chose different, So i never gave her the chance

Oh my mum had one name in mind and would not leave me alone with it ... temper .... everytime we was together she wood say it then I would speak to my family members about anything and they say oh mum said you was into the name temper .. witch was never the case !! Drove me crazy hahah even weeks ago I loved the royal but it was never a name we was gunner use I just hurd it online and she be like oh yha royals nice what about temper royal instead tho ...

So many children have diffrent names what's wrong with putting them on netmums, when thousands of people upload names onto there facebook Instagram snapchats youtube channels??

This isn't netmums...

It's identifying because people you know could be on here. Including your family that you're so concerned about not liking your name. This is an international public forum not a private Facebook/insta/snapchat.

Story/Stori it lovely (prefer the Story spelling personally). It's feisty. Temper is dreadful. As is Bohdee (unless spelt properly - Bhodi)! Just wait until she is born then announce her birth and say this is her name.

I've said it before, I'll say it again - there should be a 'health warning' on pregnancy testing kits warning parents to be NOT to discuss baby's name with any one. Causes too many arguements and fallings out.

Well, after Arkley and Huntley they’ll hardly be expecting something like Emily.

Have you posted about unusual baby names before OP 👀👀

Your posts are difficult to read, OP, was that run-on sentence saying that you or your mother wanted to name your latest kid ‘gunner’ or ‘royal temper’ or ‘hurd’? Wtaf?!

Translation for @CustomerCervixDepartment (amazing name!!)

OP's Mum wanted to call her granddaughter "Temper".

OP liked the name "Royal" but Mum suggested "Temper Royal".

Gunner = going to
Hurd = heard

Atleast that's how I deciphered understood it.

Oh dear. royal ?!
We’re being goaded aren’t we?

One might assume... 👍😉

I'm noting down Temper - it would be nice in a "sibset" with Tantrum and Timeout.

It's a madeup name that she will probably hate
daft to share it before the baby is born but you must expect strong replies if you give your kid a name like that
would you like to be called Stori as an adult? be constantly teased 'read me a story, stori'?

Taking away any of my personal thoughts on the name and focusing on your question....no, I wouldn't be telling family until she was born

I absolutely love the name Story (prefer it spelled this way as it’s unusual enough and looks nicer IMO but each to their own!)

I know both a guy and girl call Story funnily enough!

Anyway don’t tell the fam. Or do. Just be prepared to not give a shit what their opinion is.