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What are your children called?

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Otterlyadorable · 17/10/2025 19:22

Hi everyone!
Im due my second baby at the end of this year and am struggling with names!
I was wondering if any of you would be willing to share the names you’ve called your children or names of grandchildren/neices/nephews etc.
Sometimes I think it’s nicer to hear about people’s actual choices, whether they regret or love their choice, how it suits their child etc.
I have read through almost every list going - thought this might be a different way to get some ideas!
Thank you so much

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OrangeAxolotyl · 17/10/2025 22:26

Field
Mountain
Volcano
Plateau
Escarpment (nn Scarpy)

Actually mine are a bit Mountain and Volcano. Maybe DH will let us rename them

mazedasamarchhare · 18/10/2025 18:44

We had five girls names we liked: Annie, Daisy, Rosemary, Guinevere (she has one of those names)
we had five boys names we liked: Alfred, Jasper, Rupert, Lawrence, James (he has one of of those names)

cupfinalchaos · 18/10/2025 17:07

Why on earth would you want to know some random person’s child’s name? Does it matter?

Shineonyoucrazy · 18/10/2025 17:05

Shortlist sans actual names - DD: Annie , Rosa, Louise DS: Keir, James, Edward. Their dad named them from a shortlist I approved.

OrangeAxolotyl · 18/10/2025 12:45

PickAChew · 18/10/2025 11:54

Depends on the surname. It would be a bit of a mouthful with Farquhar-Poppleton but Pretentious Dingbat Jones would be a splendid name.

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It would. Imagine shouting that in Aldi!

PickAChew · 18/10/2025 11:54

OrangeAxolotyl · 18/10/2025 10:20

Anybody else like the sound of "Pretentious Dingbat"?

Depends on the surname. It would be a bit of a mouthful with Farquhar-Poppleton but Pretentious Dingbat Jones would be a splendid name.

OrangeAxolotyl · 18/10/2025 10:20

Anybody else like the sound of "Pretentious Dingbat"?

Lifestooshort71 · 18/10/2025 10:15

Children in 40s and GC early 20s - we all picked names that were in regular use at the time but not heard every day (iykwim). So, none that jump out and say 'how do you spell/pronounce that then you pretentious dingbat?' and none that get yawned at/are instantly forgettable. We also looked at possible diminutives and nicknames.

LadySuzanne · 18/10/2025 10:04

LadySuzanne · 18/10/2025 10:02

Obsidian and Bodkin.

We were considering Gynuara,

But that would have been Obs & Gyn.

LadySuzanne · 18/10/2025 10:02

Obsidian and Bodkin.

SunnieShine · 18/10/2025 08:57

hyggetyggedotorg · 17/10/2025 19:40

I will as mine are all top 20/30 & all are adults so very few security issues.

Jack, Thomas, Poppy & Mia.

It's for passwords. That's the security issue.

PaddlingSwan · 18/10/2025 08:52

Mine would have been Matthew, Richard, Rosalind & Eleanor

BumpyaDaisyevna · 18/10/2025 08:44

Some Roman inspo:

Drusilla
Agrippina
Julia
Livia
Octavia

OrangeAxolotyl · 18/10/2025 07:36

Katemax82 · 18/10/2025 07:26

I go through all my kids names before getting to the right one, even worse since my 4th has a name similar to Toby!!

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😂
He later on just resorted to "you".

Katemax82 · 18/10/2025 07:26

OrangeAxolotyl · 18/10/2025 07:22

My dad had a shop with 4 female shop assistants. He frequently called me and my sister by one or other of their names. Sometimes he'd go through all of them before settling on the correct name.

I go through all my kids names before getting to the right one, even worse since my 4th has a name similar to Toby!!

Katemax82 · 18/10/2025 07:24

Other names we considered but used as middle names were Charlotte and David. I wanted to call my firstborn David as my dad who died when I was 10 was David. Unfortunately my stepdad is bloody David so everyone would have assumed it was after him, also my husband's bil is David! There's about 5 more in the wider family. I really wanted to call my next son Ike. That was shut down immediately and somehow we ended up with Toby. My 4th child i really wanted to call him Theodore so he would be teddy. But that also got shut down as Toby chose a name which we went with

OrangeAxolotyl · 18/10/2025 07:22

My dad had a shop with 4 female shop assistants. He frequently called me and my sister by one or other of their names. Sometimes he'd go through all of them before settling on the correct name.

Katemax82 · 18/10/2025 07:20

One of my kids is called Toby (Tobias on his birth certificate)
I thought I was being original cos there were no Toby's at me daughter's school, also I'm a big fan of the film labyrinth. Not long after when I would go shopping if always hear mum's yelling at their kids (TOBY!! STOP IT!!) it always seemed to be to us getting yelled at.

Katemax82 · 18/10/2025 07:17

NotSayingBotBut · 17/10/2025 19:25

You can't call a kid number 2.

My second is called Deux.

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My mum called me daughter number 2

mathanxiety · 18/10/2025 01:31

I considered Clementine for one of them but I'm glad she has a different name as a redhead named Clementine would have been too on the nose.

WaryHiker · 18/10/2025 01:31

We used to refer to our older children as Thing One and Thing Two. The rest of them were just referred to as The Others!

We did mostly use all their names though.

I heard of a family who had four girls and named the first three Faith, Hope and Charity, and the last one Barbara!

Miniaturemom · 18/10/2025 01:25

My two have VERY common names. Mine is uncommon and even though people get it wrong quite often I do like it. I let my husband choose and even though the names themselves are lovely, I can’t stand hearing them everywhere and hesitate when I call after them or tell people their names when we meet them for the first time.

sparkleghost · 18/10/2025 00:52

I liked (but didn’t use) Robin and Poppy.

Vaguelyclassical · 18/10/2025 00:27

Hoardasurass · 17/10/2025 19:30

Jacob Rease Mog called his 6th sextus (6 in latin)

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Actually the Victorians did that all the time, e.g. Septimus . . . .the man is in every way a throwback!

PattiODors · 18/10/2025 00:18

The names I had in mind were

Sophie
Emily
Charlotte
Louisa
Adelaide

Joshua
James
Jack
Joe
Rory
Alex

But we are talking 30+ years ago
I had 2 boys and a girl