I wish I were called...

1horatio Leontine is amazing! I've got serious name envy now... Maybe I can persuade DP to put it on our list for a future not yet conceived DD.

I really like the name Bethan. Only heard it for the first time a couple of years ago and thought it was great and have since met another Bethan who is brilliant. So the name to me seems interesting, solid, professional and has good connotations.

My own name is a horridly boring top ten forever one.

I quite like my name, it's one that has been mentioned on this thread. Was very popular when I was at school/ still with people in my age range (mid 30s) but I don't mind that too much.

I wouldn't mind being a 3 syllable name - Helena or Francesca maybe.

DP says he wishes he was called Clint! I like his name (Richard) but also like James/Jamie (my big crush as a teen was a Jamie so that's probably why) and David. Or Will.

Names I thought were 'cool' growing up were:

Amy
Chloe
Sophie
Nicole

I still really like them all now but named my daughter Madeline as I think it's classic and beautiful. Plus our surname is just one syllable which I think sounds best with a three syllable first name.

Well, I like my name, my name is Leontine. But I wouldn't mind being called Annabella/Annabel.

But for my hubby:
I happen to like Yorik, George, Rupert, Bertram and Freddie..

The name of my ex is Rachel, a name I personally don't particularly like (well, I connect it with positive stuff now, but if I didn't know her I'd dislike the name): K/Catherine; Miranda, Louisa. Olympia....

I have a very boring and plain 1980s name. There were loads of us in my year at school. I, like noncommital always used to wish my name was Samantha for some reason. I still quite like it.

I wish I could've called my DS Django (not after the film, after the jazz player)

When I was little I wanted to change my name to either Elizabeth Arden or Olivia Newton-John - I thought they sounded so glamorous
Now, I think I would choose either Katherine, Anna, or Isobel (although my real name is ok).

My name has been mentioned on this thread about 10 times as a strong, classic name. I love it but I used to wish that i had a more flowing, romantic name like Cecilia, Anastacia, Arabella, Sasha etc etc

Jemima or Georgina.

I had a friend at school named Jemima and I was so envious of her for her pretty name, and for having one less popular than mine (I'm a late-80s Rebecca).

I'd still love to have been called either, I don't think I'd name a baby Jemima. Georgina, though, definitely.

Clare

I would have liked Sarah Michelle - like the Buffy actress

I am a Sarah Louise . The other Sarahs I know are Sarah Jaynes. My mum swears blind that she didn't know of any other Sarahs when she chose it and I certainly believe there is something in the hive thinking theory, which would explain why certain names become suddenly very popular, out of nowhere!

I do like Sarah and Louise as stand alone names, but put together they are so boring. On the bright side , I do avoid any preconceived judgements about me based on my name.

I think that is where my dislike of "my" Sarah stems from NNalreadyinuse - every Sarah I met growing up was a Sarah Louise! Funnily enough my best friend was called Louise (Michelle), it's a name that seems to be wildly out of fashion these days.

It's unusual that you are Louise Sarah. Mostly it is the other way around!

I think the danger with a very popular name is that you almost have to retrain yourself to hear the beauty in your name that led to your parents choosing it in the first place. I feel like that about mine - objectively I do like it but for a long time I couldn't hear the sound of it, only the frequency with which I heard it.

I love my first name (Louise) but hate hate hate my middle name (Sarah) - I've always been baffled the love that Sarah gets on MN as I just don't see it. It's all so subjective isn't it!

Married to a Robin who was named after the original Poldark actor.

As a child I wanted to be Matilda or Sophie because of the Roald Dahl heroines. I'd still like either of them. My parents nearly called me Melanie or Melissa which would age me horribly so I dodged a bullet there!

When I was young and we'd play house. We always used to change our names. I was always Faye. I still like it, but. Even if God Blessed me with 10 more dds. I wouldn't use it.

Julietta

I look like a Chrissie or Fiona (I'm not) but longed to be a Bobby.
I would like to be married to a James

TippyTappyLappyToppy Well I wouldn't on principle pay the smallest attention to fashion in names. That's why I said constant use. Awful to be able to date someone to a decade by their name.

Elizabeth or Sarah .
Hate mine .

Anna, Matilda, Tabitha or Loveday.

I want to be a Kate.

I like DP's name. It's arty and cool.