Why would you ask other people their baby names?

[LittleLottieChaos]

Why wouldn’t you use your imagination or reference someone important to you? Name trends are clearly a load of guff... I can’t think of anything more silly than picking a name because it’s in a top 10.

I was watching an episode of the baby club once and the kid was called Hunter, Nigel asked why, she said it was a ‘compromise’, and then didn’t seem to understand what that meant. To all those calling their kids Hunter - at least lie and say you’re a Hunter S Thompson fan. Very odd.

Why did you chose the name you did? Why is it important to you?

What are ye on about?

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It's called inspiration? It's good to be reminded of names you'd forgotten existed or never even considered before.

We decided not to tell anyone our names until we had had our DS (we didn't find out if boy/girl until birth). My DM accidentally gave out the name to someone at work, who wanted to use it (including middle name) but luckily forgot it and found something similar instead. Not that it would have been a huge deal as we don't live close, but must admit it felt a bit weird. I think I'm a bit odd with that though. I do ask about names, but respect if people don't want to say as we didn't. My reasons for asking are 1. I like to write it down to remember it on our phone/address, 2. I like to hear what other people have chosen as I find it interesting and have always loved names and name meanings.

As I say, I wouldn't choose a name if someone told me what they'd chosen, I'm just nosy. I also find lots of people change the name around the end of the pregnancy or after the birth, so the name they give early on isn't always the one that the baby gets. It happened with 5 of our friends. We avoided saying because we didn't want it used by other's, but also (mainly) because we couldn't be bothered with negative reactions before we had the baby and the names we'd chosen were unusual (not made up/spelt differently but not often used).