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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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GentrifiedJen · 28/05/2024 17:03

I was obsessed with the Walton sextuplets when I was a child

I dreamed of having six little girls called Elizabeth, Rebecca, Susanna, Josephine, Caroline & Philippa. Occasionally I went one further than Mrs Walton and added a seventh called Katharine 😂

Clawdy · 28/05/2024 17:01

Aviva and Fritha!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 28/05/2024 17:01

Andrew and Kimberley

schoolsoutforever · 28/05/2024 16:59

Ooh nice thread!

My favourites were Clover (What Katy Did - I think...?), Lois (from Superman I assume) and Laurence for a boy (Little W I think). Still quite like them but put off Laurence because of the Fox man.

Conniebygaslight · 28/05/2024 16:57

When I was little I like Danielle for a girl, Daniel for a boy. Leanne/Leon the matchy names. When I was a teen, I was obsessed with the surname Smith as a first name and thought I was super cool….🤣🤣

Lilyhatesjaz · 28/05/2024 16:57

Ziantha and Renisenb both are characters in books. Both my children actually have standard popular names

LadyinLavende · 28/05/2024 16:56

Emmerald · 28/05/2024 16:20

Penelope, Lorelei and Athena.

Oddly enough I didn't think of any boys names! 😂

Had my daughter been a boy she'd have been Miles. And no, she's not Penelope, Lorelei or Athena! 😂

I actually spoke to a woman named Athena earlier today: she had a Greek- sounding surname:

I wanted to call my hypothetical daughter Myfanwy : I had a thing about my Welsh origins

PussInBin20 · 28/05/2024 16:56

Meggie, after the girl/woman in The Thorn Birds. I loved that film.

Tospyornottospy · 28/05/2024 16:53

Pottedpalm · 28/05/2024 16:47

A girl, Posy after the dancer in Ballet Shoes
A boy, no name. I could not countenance having a boy

I had a hamster called Posy!

Relaxd · 28/05/2024 16:53

Persephone (Percy) which I hated years later but mow I’ve remembered it I really quite like it again!

Edward and an American sounding name that I cannot recall. It’s really bugging me now! A friend called her child Edward and I was really upset, not reasonably as I’d not told her ‘my’ names!

Pottedpalm · 28/05/2024 16:47

A girl, Posy after the dancer in Ballet Shoes
A boy, no name. I could not countenance having a boy

Tospyornottospy · 28/05/2024 16:47

I loved Daphne from either Mallory Towers or The Twins at St Clare’s (can’t remember which), and also from the same I was keen in. Gwendoline and Willemina (spelling?)

I had a very very long list of pretentious names I liked, none of which I used (my children will thank me) Like a PP Persephone was on there, as was Cornelius and Montgomery.

I am cringing as I type

NeverDropYourMooncup · 28/05/2024 16:42

Depends upon which age.

7 - Edmund (an uncle who was actually nice to me), Alice (my great aunt) and Alexandra.

13 - Probably from some utterly gorgeous but hopelessly unsuitable boys. Antonio, Santiago and Vincenzo.

5 and a half - Pippa (after my rabbit), Kitty (after my cat) and Millicent Margaret Amanda from the Milly-Molly-Mandy books.

SlapdashCook · 28/05/2024 16:39

Not me but my DF ~

My DF was in Europe during WW2 and sent my DM a set of framed watercolours of 4 cherubic babes. These were hung on the wall of the nursery when I was tiny. Later in my childhood I had a set of Winnie the Pooh pictures and asked my DM if it was OK to use the frames from the baby pictures. She helped me to take the watercolours out and we found that DF had written names on the back of each one . . . Peter, Paul, Margaret & Mary. Neither me nor my my sibling had been given one of those names!

KreedKafer · 28/05/2024 16:31

I honestly can't remember what names I imagined for my theoretical offspring when I was a kid (and I don't have any children) but I do remember that the boyfriend I was seeing when I was 17 and he was 21 randomly announced that if he had children he'd want to call them Logan and Angel, and I massively offended him by sneering at his (I thought) terrible choices.

LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood · 28/05/2024 16:30

Jessica, Susan and James.

Choice4567 · 28/05/2024 16:29

I’d planned 3 girls named Leah, Nyah and Tèa

Yes they all rhyme. No none of my children have those names!

Pallisers · 28/05/2024 16:28

Cassandra and Finian. I still like them.

Skyrainbow · 28/05/2024 16:27

Amberley & Ariadne

toastandtwo · 28/05/2024 16:25

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

EVHead · 28/05/2024 16:25

Something pretentious like Andromeda or Persephone. 😁

Cattenberg · 28/05/2024 16:22

Jacinta. I loved this name for years and still like it. I recently asked DD if she would’ve liked to have been Jacinta and she said she hated it!

When I was younger, my favourite boy’s name was Callum. I was disappointed when it became really popular.

akissbeforebed · 28/05/2024 16:22

I would have a daughter called Saffron.