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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

OP posts:
shampop · 18/10/2025 00:15

Amber, Emerald and Keith

Driftingawaynow · 18/10/2025 00:13

Hephzibah

SomeConstellation · 18/10/2025 00:13

dontcomeatme · 17/10/2025 19:26

I don't see how this could really be outing.
I have a Henry and an Edward. Love both their names, Edward gets Eddie or Ted as NN. I loved Jacob at the time but a friend stole it first 😅

What's your first called and do you know the sex of second? X

You don’t think it’s outing because you have a Henry and an Edward. My child has a name so unusual the numbers weren’t listed individually for his year of birth — which I think means fewer than three that year.

OP, other options were Sadhbh, Iarla and Fergus.

Zoono · 18/10/2025 00:10

I liked emilia and sienna but then partner vetoed those names and we went with a different name that we both loved. Most people on here will not tell you their child's actual name , as why use mumsnet, if anonymity isn't important to you.

Sportsdaywinner · 18/10/2025 00:06

Horace

BoudiccaRuled · 18/10/2025 00:04

Lucy always appealed but was voted against by husband and baby's big sis.
Hephzibah would have been amazing, but it's shortened version is Eppie (see Silas Marner) which at the time was used as a slur on epileptics so also vetoed.
ALSO Zuleika as in Zuleika Dobson, but our surname is even worse than Dobson 😂

Mansionscoldandgrey · 17/10/2025 23:59

Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy.

Violinist64 · 17/10/2025 23:49

Also Rosalind.

Violinist64 · 17/10/2025 23:49

I have three adult children - two boys and a girl. I won't say their actual names but some we considered:
William, Oliver, Richard, James, Charlotte, Bethan, Adele, Briony.

MsSmartShoes · 17/10/2025 23:43

If I’d had my way:
Marnie
Elenie
Genevieve

Fifthtimelucky · 17/10/2025 23:42

NotSayingBotBut · 17/10/2025 19:26

It was going to be Thomas and Henry but my DH said they sounded like tank engines, so they're called something else non- train related.

If I remember rightly from my years of watching Thomas the Tank Engine videos, Henry (like Edward, Gordon and James) was a tender engine not a tank engine!

For boys, we never managed to agree on a shortlist, but my personal one would include:

James
Edward
William
Richard
Sebastian

For girls, we liked

Sarah
Caroline
Catherine
Charlotte
Emily
Elizabeth
Eleanor
Victoria
Alice
Lucy
Stephanie

Our two daughters and two cats all had names from that list!

LuckyKoalaBear · 17/10/2025 23:39

Girls names we loved but didn't use
Lucia
Emily
Gabriella
Alba
Sophia

Boys names
Oran
Lachlan
Brodie
Harris
Ruairidh

DH is Scottish and my family are European so in the end we picked names which worked in both languages

AliTheMinx · 17/10/2025 23:27

My DS is Theo Alexander. I wanted 2 strong names (they are both Greek) and as he was a rainbow baby, I chose Theo as it means Gift from.God.

If I had had a girl, I would have chosen Annabelle Elise. I also found a name in my family tree that I really like - Alexina.

PyongyangKipperbang · 17/10/2025 23:23

AngelinaFibres · 17/10/2025 23:11

Always wished I was named Clemency. Clemmie for short. Sadly I was born in the mid 60s and given a name that eleventy billion other girls born in the middle 60s were given.

I feel your pain. My name was top three for something ridiculous like 20 years! You cant throw a stone without hitting someone with my name. There were four of us in my (small) primary school class alone.

Horrible as you became "Jane B, Jane L and Jane T" (not my real name) Although in DD's class there were two Lily-Maes and Gracie-Maes. Although I did laugh when an insufferable woman I used to work with chose the dreaded Neveah as it was "unique", and fuck me didnt she go on about it, and then there were two others in her DD's reception class.

Hotvimtoandwaffles · 17/10/2025 23:20

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 17/10/2025 21:59

Evening Carrie!

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Sssh, don’t tell anyone I’m here. I’m meant to be ironing my husband’s fringe x

Imanautumn · 17/10/2025 23:15

Ivy
Martha
Ned
Stanley

YerAWizardHarry · 17/10/2025 23:14

Ours are Oliver William and James Alexander, two very common names I’m sure so not worried about it being “outing” at all.

ThePoshUns · 17/10/2025 23:13

Spartacus

AngelinaFibres · 17/10/2025 23:12

MinnieMountain · 17/10/2025 23:10

DH’s aunt knew a Thor, but she lives in Norway. I’m not sure it would work in Britain.

I'm Thor.
Ooo I'm Thor too. You can get cream for that.

AngelinaFibres · 17/10/2025 23:11

Always wished I was named Clemency. Clemmie for short. Sadly I was born in the mid 60s and given a name that eleventy billion other girls born in the middle 60s were given.

MinnieMountain · 17/10/2025 23:10

DH’s aunt knew a Thor, but she lives in Norway. I’m not sure it would work in Britain.

AngelinaFibres · 17/10/2025 23:08

If I'd had girls they would have been Eleanor Catherine and Harriet Alice. They came out with penises.

OrangeAxolotyl · 17/10/2025 23:07

GregoryFluff · 17/10/2025 23:06

I met a baby Oslo at swim class this week, thought that was real cute

There's Norway he was swimming at that age.

GregoryFluff · 17/10/2025 23:06

I met a baby Oslo at swim class this week, thought that was real cute

PickAChew · 17/10/2025 23:00

Ogbert and Nigel.