Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

I wish I were called...

115 replies

cornishglos · 13/04/2016 12:26

Tell me what name you would like for yourself. And maybe your partner. So I can hear some names that work beyond the baby years. Thank you.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
lemonade30 · 16/04/2016 20:42

Jacinta

DurhamDurham · 16/04/2016 20:37

Darcy or Violet

ParsleyTheLion1 · 16/04/2016 20:37

Clementine or Valentine

ParsleyTheLion1 · 16/04/2016 20:37

Does anyone on here experiment with names they wish they were called when they order coffees in coffee shops and they ask for your name? I do.

TippyTappyLappyToppy · 16/04/2016 13:12

Sabine but apart from a handful of royal or biblical names, no names are in constant use for hundreds of years. Almost everything goes round on a constant cycle of fashion. Cecily Phoebe and Matilda would have been deeply unfashionable when I was a child. They've only really become commonly used again since the 1990's.

A very, very small list of names actually defy fashion and remain truly timeless. Things like Victoria, James, John, Emma, Anna, Matthew, Rachel, Elizabeth etc (so as I said either royal or biblical names) but it's a pretty small and dull list.

AmyC86 · 16/04/2016 11:01

I like my name Amy. When I was younger I always thought that I'd want a more exotic name as I found the way I say it (broad northern accent) made it either sound boring or made me look thick.

I always had quite a fondness to the unisex names - toni, Andi etc

JeanGenie23 · 16/04/2016 10:43

I like my name I wouldn't want anything else. But I enjoyed it because I wasn't one of 10 in my school, in fact I think I was the only one all throughout my education until I got to uni.

What's important is that you go with your taste, not with what you think you should pick. I was tempted to go for a more run on the mill name with my DD because I was anxious of the responses to the name I really loved, in the end I went with the one my dp and I wanted the most and I'm so glad we did!

SabineUndine · 16/04/2016 07:52

I've got the dullest of names. That's why my handle on here isn't. I'm firmly of the view that you shouldn't CONSIDER a name that hasn't been in constant use for 500 years. Seriously. So many people on here saying they wish they had classic names. I'd choose Phoebe, Cecily or Matilda.

Original poster
cornishglos · 16/04/2016 07:11

Thanks all. My daughter's name has been mentioned positively a few times. Today I think I would like to be a Megan. My dp would be Ben. Sensible, strong names imo.

OP posts:
Error404usernamenotfound · 15/04/2016 17:43

Great way of finding a name, OP!

I would have loved to be called Caroline, Madeleine, Lydia, Anna, or Serena.

Cocochoco · 15/04/2016 17:34

I'd love something long and flowing like Anastasia or Isabella.

MarshaMallow84 · 14/04/2016 23:12

I don't like my name. It's a very common run of the mill 1980s name but what I really don't like is that it's not very 'soft' or feminine and I don't feel it suits me at all. I would have preferred Caroline (Carrie), Lucy or Emily which were all on my parents shortlist.

Laska5772 · 14/04/2016 19:00

My name is the same as that of a very famous wife of an assassinated president , so it dates me terribly and no one can spell it ( or often even its popular shortened version)

When I was about 13 I wanted so badly to change it to Vanessa ( am so glad now I didnt ) Im used to my name now , but perhaps I had to , I might go for Anna (or Venetia)

But I had a friend back in the 70s who called her daughter Sol .. isn't that just great?

Voteforpedr0 · 14/04/2016 18:33

Stevie, I knew a stevie who was named after stevie nicks and i though she was very cool

spankhurst · 14/04/2016 18:30

Serena or Isobel. Rather elegant and beautiful, classic and not faddy. I am just one of those things, sadly

Normandy144 · 14/04/2016 18:15

I'm a 70s Victoria, but known as Vicky which I don't really like but I hated Victoria as a child - it was so stuffy to me in a sea of Lisa's and Nicola's at school. I'd have liked to have had a prettier, more glamorous name, as Victoria seems very warrior-ish to me, so something like Stephanie, Gabriella, Alexandra or Lydia.

Heyheyheygoodbye · 14/04/2016 18:11

Babette.

Abigail12 · 14/04/2016 18:06

Love my name! Uncommon but not weird and also quite fairytale-ish. Did wish when I was about 10 that I was called Sally- I loved worsel gummidge at the time!

Baz13 · 14/04/2016 17:59

Grown to love my name, but always hated never finding anything with my name on in the gift shops. I have only ever met three Tara's.

NNalreadyinuse · 14/04/2016 17:21

I would like to be Kate or Caroline or Ava or Lara. I got Sarah, like everyone else in the 1970s Grin

TealLove · 14/04/2016 17:18

Adore my name but I also love Verity!

Bathsheba · 14/04/2016 17:16

Belinda. I use it in Starbucks as my actual name would get pronounced/spelled wrongly...

I think my husband should be a Matt or a Martin...he isn't either.

JeanGenie23 · 14/04/2016 16:25

derelict a friend of mine have birth to a little girl last weekend and named her Daphne Smile

DerelictMyBalls · 14/04/2016 15:58

Daphne. I think it -and the nickname Daffy - would suit me.

Kenworthington · 14/04/2016 15:47

I'm a Claire (70s!) it doesn't suit me and I'm not keen on it. I would have preferred Clara or margot Blush