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

181 replies

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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TheBirdintheCave · 29/05/2024 08:42

They would have been Joseph and Holly when I was a teenager.

They're Gilbert and Marcella in real life 🥰

WilliamButt · 29/05/2024 08:19

JustMarriedBecca · 29/05/2024 07:56

Elizabeth

If I had twins, Elizabeth and Jessica from Sweet Valley High

James for a boy

My husband and I were talking just recently wondering how many people would notice/comment if you had a Jessica and Elizabeth (yes, he also used to read SVH).

WilliamButt · 29/05/2024 08:18

Tricia, Cilla and Sanchez.

I thank the Lord I didn't meet my husband until I was a bit more sensible.

JustMarriedBecca · 29/05/2024 07:56

Elizabeth

If I had twins, Elizabeth and Jessica from Sweet Valley High

James for a boy

FatherDickByrne · 29/05/2024 07:55

Tom and Mercedes. Also liked Jude and Keziah.

GreenShady · 29/05/2024 07:28

Based on my ballet book obsession, Sebastian and Veronica (IYKYK), my Flambards obsession led to William, and in the era when astonishingly very few girls were called Charlotte (I didn't know any at least) I thought it was the most beautiful name!

Freysimo · 29/05/2024 06:40

Xanthe. She'd have spent her whole life spelling it out for people!

Justleaveitblankthen · 29/05/2024 06:03

Mandy.
Not Amanda, just Mandy.
I was an avid reader of Mandy the comic and her dog Patch. 😁

GetyourheadoutoftheovenIris · 29/05/2024 06:00

As a teen it would have been Pixie or Nesta. I even knew what they would have looked like 😂

JoniBlue · 29/05/2024 05:48

I am not sure about a boy name, but a girl would have been Lisa Marie.

Princessfluffy · 29/05/2024 03:59

I liked the names from The Magic Roundabout and also Jemima from Playschool.

JMSA · 29/05/2024 03:51

When I was little, I saw the word 'Demerara' on a bag of sugar, and decided it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen Blush

My daughters would have been called Angela and Demerara.

Mamai100 · 29/05/2024 03:40

AlltheFs · 28/05/2024 20:45

When I was really young - Brittany or Brittanie (why?!) I remember endless writing it in awful bubble writing. It was wasn’t Britney and was before Spears anyway so can’t blame that. Must have come from 90210 or similar. Cringe.

As an older teen - Lauren

DD is Felicity so nowhere near really!

The bubble writing!

That's brought back memories, I'd forgotten about the bubble writing!

Mamai100 · 29/05/2024 03:34

When I was 12 my friends cousin had a baby and called her Tammy-Jordan which I thought was just stunning 😂. Anything with Jordan in either male of female was right up my street.

Thankfully I went for more classic names 20 years down the line.

Sam0207 · 29/05/2024 02:52

I was pregnant at 17 and wanted to call my baby (if a girl) Tara (but pronounced Ta-rah - like the house in Gone with the wind). Till my Dad said "Oh like Taramasalata." That put an end to that as we were a very nickname-y family, I knew she'd get stuck with that!
Ended up going with a very traditional Charlotte.

Mama2many73 · 29/05/2024 01:27

Girl -charlotte/Charlie
Boy _ taryn ( still love this, but too late for us)

Angrymum22 · 29/05/2024 00:31

Kieren - boy , I had a crush on Kieren Bracken the 90s rugby player. It was an unusual name back then.
Kazia - for girl, after a great aunt. I prefer the old fashioned pronunciation kuz-eye-er.

FastnetLundyRockall · 29/05/2024 00:19

Damaris or Lana for a girl, Aleksandar or Danilo for a boy.

Fluffyhoglets · 29/05/2024 00:06

Adelaide

Didn't pick a boys name when I was a child 😆

Original poster
Peoppy · 29/05/2024 00:04

Also remember liking Daria and Ksenia (had a weird obsession with fashion models in the mid 2000s and often watched the channel
FashionTV).

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marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 28/05/2024 22:25

Temperature!

CammyChameleon · 28/05/2024 22:17

Ocean, Stella, Ace...

I think Stella's quite nice still, but I never had a girl and it didn't make it onto any of the "girl names" lists during my pregnancies in any case.

Newyearoldhair · 28/05/2024 22:07

Timothy for a boy ( after a friends gorgeous older brother)
Prague for a girl 😱

GreenMarigold · 28/05/2024 22:04

Iona and Tristan. I still quite like both names!

MonaChopsis · 28/05/2024 22:03

Oh god am I the only one who used the name I liked as a child?! DD would have been (and is!) a Katie...