What kind of names do little girls love being called?

I wanted to be Samantha....

DD now wishes she was called Sarah - quite a straight laced name for such a frilly little girl - and was quite upset that we wouldn't have another baby specifically so that she could be called Sarah......

You can spend all the time in the world worrying about it and end up with a child like me who hated her surname and convinced the school, aged 5, that my surname was actually Beep and there'd been a terrible mistake. I got away with it for a whole week.

My surname was perfectly nice btw. My Dad also still calls me Beeper.

DD wants to be called Twinkle Bluebell

She's 5

She has a much more normal name in real life

When I was a little girl I was desperate to be called anything other than my given name. It was unusual at the time, nobody could spell it or pronounce it (its not even a weird spelling!) and I HATED people commenting on it.

I think my favourite was Lucy or Hannah 'cause theyre princess names. I'd still call a DD Hannah, but Lucy is the name of the harlot my ex husband cheated on me with so thats out the window...

Dd2 (almost 5) berates me daily for not calling her Lily or Isabella (these are the names of her friends at school).

Dd1 (7) would go for Hannah.

I liked the name Judy when I was little but would hate to be called that now, no offence to any Judys.
My dd1 likes Scarlett and dd2 loves Chloe.

A friend Emily has always loved her name. My sister also loved being the only Katie growing up - lots of Kates and Katherines.but only.one.Katie and had brilliant.nicknames (Katie Tatie; Katie Coconut).

DD is named after two girls in literature I love - FN is short and not girlie sounding, MN is feminine and frilly.so she can swao them.when she is older if she likes.

I wanted to be Tamzin when little and, bizarrely, Janet as a teenager.

Dd was always Christina or Holly when playing pretend games.

She will be a little girl for at the most 10 years- and an adult woman for 60. Pick a name that would suit an adult woman, then use Whoopsiefairykins as a nickname.

I went to school with a girl called Nicola, but she would only answer to 'Picardy' !? I didn't even know she was called Nicola for about 2 years!

My dds use Bella, Chloe or Olivia when they are playing and most teddies and dolls are given these names .... But dd2 informed me a month ago that her new name was "Pom" so since then we are only allowed to call her that...

I always wanted a boyish name - Andy, Danny, something like that. And now we're talking about it, I wonder if that is why DD has a boyish name? Hmm...

I wanted to be called Stephanie or Miranda. I saw them as the absolute height of coolness and feminine charm...

Marianne and Emmeline want to be Rosie and Thomas

My children call themselves Ella and selenia when pretending.

Ds1 really wishes we'd called Ds2 Sven. He thinks its the coolest name ever, he is highly unimpressed by Alexander.

As kids me and dsis liked anything that sounded popstar-ish (in the 80s) Sabrina was a big favourite! also boyish names like Jamie, Georgie and Frankie seemed very exciting to us! we were odd and heavily influenced by Grange Hill and TOTP!

I just wanted to have a name that other children had, like Sharon or Samantha or Susan . I liked the prospect of being, for example, Sharon J, instead of being the only one in the school with my name as was the case.

(My name is no longer unusual, having become a regular "top ten" name at around the time I left school. But it was uncommon in the 1970s)

I wanted Sadie or Yvonne. Cheryl, Cherrie or Charlie were runners up.
That dates me.

Oh and my brother named himself Spike after a character off Hi De Hi. We watched far too much tv as kids!

When I was little I wanted to be called Blanche like Rue McLanahan's character on the Golden Girls. My best friend wanted to he called Pearl Chrystal. I wouldn't name my children either of those.

We just came up with a list we liked...no set parameters, that went well with our surname and didn't have a cringeworthy acronym.

My dd (7) just wants to be called Rose, or Rosie, Rosette or Rosetta. At a pinch, Lily would also do. None of those are her actual name.

If you don't want to saddle your DD with a crappy name, don't pay any attention to what little girls love being called :o

DD wanted to be Aladdia

I wanted to be Rhona out of the Rhona and Jill pony stories. ( I think my sister wanted to be Rhona as well, but I made her be Jill 'cos she was younger.)

At junior school I don't remember names being an issue at all, but in secondary one poor girl got mocked for being named Prudence (though I daresay if she were cool in other ways she might have got away with it)
and another was considered snooty cos her name was Catriona.

The rest of us were all happy enough sharing the common names of Lyn, Clare, Cathy and Helen. Three or four of each in 90 girls.