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What would your children be called if you gave them the name you came up with as a boy/girl?

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Peoppy · 28/05/2024 16:10

I would have a Ryder (male) and a Zola or Nova.

Came up with them when I was probably 15/16.

Not horrifically horrendous but I would now be disappointed had I become a teen mum.

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21ZIGGY · 03/06/2024 19:26

Jareth after the goblin king. To be fair im 41 and in the unlikely event i have a son in the future id find it hard not to call him Jareth David

MasterBeth · 03/06/2024 19:24

toastandtwo · 28/05/2024 16:25

Cameron (boy) and Brooke (girl). I still like those names to be honest!

Surnames.

Beketaten · 03/06/2024 18:28

Cherubs4 · 03/06/2024 04:39

I Know someone with that name!

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Must be my long-lost child! 😄

RuddyNorma · 03/06/2024 07:07

Maybe the PP manifested her.

Dana Andrews was a Hollywood film star in the 1950s.

Cherubs4 · 03/06/2024 04:39

Beketaten · 03/06/2024 03:03

Dinah for a girl and Andrew if a boy. Would sometimes write stories about a girl called Dinah Andrews!

I Know someone with that name!

Beketaten · 03/06/2024 03:03

Dinah for a girl and Andrew if a boy. Would sometimes write stories about a girl called Dinah Andrews!

Okbyethen · 03/06/2024 02:31

I was 100% going to call my daughter Trinity (The Matrix) 😄

Glad I grew out of that one!

Crazycatlady79 · 03/06/2024 02:20

Boys names I loved as a child were Philip, Patrick, Louis and Theo. Girls names were Kate, Tempany and Polly.
I used none of these!

justjuggling · 03/06/2024 00:27

Angela as that was the name of my cabbage patch doll! 😂

Cherubs4 · 02/06/2024 23:45

I was convinved I'd have twin called Sophie and Sally. I used to write short stories about them.
For a boy I wanted Sam after my doll little Sam

Freeasabird76 · 02/06/2024 23:32

Samuel Benjamin for a boy
Cheyenne for a girl

whatsoccuringnow · 02/06/2024 23:23

Belinda or Jessica for a girl

Justin or Sebastian for a boy

I didn't use those names or anything similar. They smack of the 80s to me now!!

MayonnaiseOnMyChips · 02/06/2024 23:06

Penny and Ziggy

JoniBlue · 02/06/2024 23:05

Summer & Levi are good ones!

MotherOfVizslas · 02/06/2024 22:03

Summer and Levi!

ASongOfRiceAndPeas · 02/06/2024 21:53

Mine were Morgan for a girl and Chase for a boy 🙈
I also loved Jaime for a girl

verabarbleen · 01/06/2024 19:36

@WilliamButt aww i have a 3 year old Elizabeth 🥰

JazbayGrapes · 31/05/2024 18:06

Andrew and William were my favourite boy names.
Eventually I married Andrew. We have William.

GaslitlikeaVictorianparlour · 31/05/2024 17:55

Jordan for both after Tom Cruise's classy, beautiful artist girlfriend in Cocktail.
I share my date of birth with Katie Price so had no idea what kind of a journey this name was about to go on.

aandrelax · 31/05/2024 17:46

I was obsessed with the programme Sister Sister and wanted twins called Tia and Tamera

I also loved The Sound of Music and wanted 7 children, one called Louisa

I haven't used any of these names in real life but I still think Louisa is pretty

Ablar · 31/05/2024 16:23

I always liked Emily and Finn. My son's middle name is Finley. His 'dad' said no to Finn, I actually didn't want to name him what he is named, but I couldn't imagine him as anything else now

OopsOhNoZHM · 31/05/2024 15:00

I was mildly obsessed with the names Cannagan, Cade and Tino for a boy when I was a teen 😅 the only girl's name I've ever really obsessed over is the name I made up at 17, swore I'd give it to my first born daughter and did finally get to use it at 28.
Glad I stuck with the names I picked for each of them, or my 2nd boy would have been Stark or Binx 😂 daughter I had no clue what to call her if she'd been a boy but Rowan and Elliott were high on the list. I found a lot of the names I liked for my first, weren't a good fit by the time I had my 2nd, and same for the list from 2nd to 3rd.

Lila878 · 30/05/2024 23:42

Rainbow Brite & Michael

CrispieCake · 30/05/2024 23:33

Leslie (Boy/girl), Oswald (boy) or Janet (girl).

Neither of my children have any of these names, though I understand Janet is on the up.

BonnyT · 30/05/2024 23:11

Sodapop, Dallas or Ponyboy, after reading SE Hinton's The Outsiders. Thank Christ I wasn't a teenage mum, for so many reasons, but mainly my name choices back then!!

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