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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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mondaytosunday · 17/10/2025 19:58

We strongly considered Zoe, Sienna, Ava, Samuel, Scarlet. We were really stuck in boys names. Couldn’t use Samuel as that was somebody’s middle name in the immediate family (stepson). My kids names are not unusual but very uncommon so I won’t state them here. Hers is from a book (make character), his from a movie.
Most recent additions in my extended family are Autumn and Darcy (girl) and Martha.

autumn2025 · 17/10/2025 19:57

Names I liked before naming them.

Bailey
Oscar
Jack
Jax
Julian
Ava
Sienna
Leah
Poppy
Holly
Athena

FlamingoBiscuits · 17/10/2025 19:57

Names on our lists:

Martha
Imogen
Etta
Rosa/Rosie

William
Thomas
Joseph
Theo

BloominNora · 17/10/2025 19:52

If we'd have had another, they would have been Abigail (but we would have used Abby) or William

Hotvimtoandwaffles · 17/10/2025 19:52

Boris, Boristoff, Borisson and Borisette x

ThatshallotBaby · 17/10/2025 19:51

Also Valentina, Rosabel, Fabian and Basil.

HugoYorway · 17/10/2025 19:51

@Hoardasurass , The child in question was named after a saint. Pope Sixtus II - Wikipedia

BloominNora · 17/10/2025 19:50

Algen · 17/10/2025 19:26

Didn’t some politician actually do that?

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Rees Mogg called his sixth child Sixtus! (poor kid)

HugoYorway · 17/10/2025 19:48

Beaux-Lilah and Maci-Lea

ThatshallotBaby · 17/10/2025 19:47

I loved but couldn’t or didn’t use, Gabriel, Honor,

Cinaferna · 17/10/2025 19:47

There have been a LOT of posts recently asking things like tell us your name/where you were born/live. They may be legitimate but that's a lot of potential information harvesting about MN users.

Please don't ask for or give away sensitive personal information

KookyRoseCrab · 17/10/2025 19:44

I like Annie

ComfortFoodCafe · 17/10/2025 19:43

Ethel & Gary.

SauceySally · 17/10/2025 19:42

Do you also want our mother’s maiden name, first pet's name and the road we grew up on?

RedRiverShore5 · 17/10/2025 19:42

My adult DC is called Jack, I doubt this is 'outing'

Dliplop · 17/10/2025 19:41

Love bug
Baby bear
Hey you!
oi! Quit it
sweetheart
mama’s boy

BitOutOfPractice · 17/10/2025 19:41

I very rarely call either of them by their actual names. It’s either a diminutive of their names or a pet name or something random.

Thinking about it, I very rarely get called my own name, I’m mom or darling or a pet name from my family or a shortening of my name. Even a nick name based on my maiden name (that I haven’t been called for 25+ years) by my school friends.

so, don’t sweat it. Choose something you love and trust The process.

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.

Toadetta · 17/10/2025 19:40

I don't think many posters will be willing to say their children's names in case it outs them.

I will say that I liked the sound of my son's name with our surname because they start with the same letter. (Example Sam Smith) I just thought it sounded cute and flowed well and in my family middle names are usually to honour someone else (like a late relative) and never just random names.

zebrazoop · 17/10/2025 19:38

Knobhead

TheCrenchinglyMcQuaffenBrothers · 17/10/2025 19:38

Farquhar and Farquharson.
And that’s just the girls.

Iheartmysmart · 17/10/2025 19:38

My dad was dreadful with names so I was called Number 2 Daughter by him mostly. DS has a short, three letter name as his surname is quite long. I was going to call him Amy if he’d been a girl.

I had a car called Gary, my most recent one is called Gus and I have a female kitten with a boy’s name as I was told she was male. By the time I found out her sex, I’d already registered her at the vets and insured her and couldn’t be bothered to change it.,

BuffaloCauliflower · 17/10/2025 19:37

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

My children both have uncommon names, the combination of the two would make it absolutely clear it was me posting should someone who knows me read it

Huntrix · 17/10/2025 19:37

I met a baby Mabel the other day and thought it was a lovely name.

Hoardasurass · 17/10/2025 19:37

Anthempart2 · 17/10/2025 19:31

Sixtus. Don’t be disgusting.

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Sorry but your wrong but its actually 6th in Latin

What are your children called?