we have always kept our names a secret, with DD we told everyone we would call her Bambii for a girl or Ferris for a boy - people didn't know if they should take us seriously! But we did accidentally take our friends girls name - they didn't tell us and we didn't tell them and our girl came first!

We also had a list of boys names just in case and the top 4 got used in the last few months of my pregnancy... lucky we had a girl.

But we just make a habbit not to tell anyone as we want it a surprise when the baby arrives.