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What did you plan to call your children (when you were a child?)

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Mrsknackered · 22/10/2017 15:44

Indigo Blue
Violet Skye
Sunny Rae
Sienna Rose
Posy Flo

(In that order)

I think Sonny Ray and Arthur Bear were the boys names....

I have 2 DS's with much less colourful names still holding a torch for Indigo

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MissCherryCakeyBun · 22/10/2017 21:59

Saxony
Josephine
Angela

Theodore
Alexander
Richard
Jonathan

I wanted lots of babies but in the end I only had one ( and feel so lucky to have her)

She is Joanne ( Jo so I guess the same shortening as Josephine 🙂)

I’m guessing the age you are now changes the names you will have chosen....I’m 49

ElfEars · 22/10/2017 21:56

Jasmine (Aladdin) and Jason. I have no idea where Jason came from.

Mallowmarshmallow · 22/10/2017 21:53

Pearlintude....named after my mum’s plenitude face cream.....! Hmm

C0untDucku1a · 22/10/2017 21:49

My 7 yr old daughter is obsessed with the name emily.

C0untDucku1a · 22/10/2017 21:48

Erin Ellen and Caleb Thomas.

The middle names are still what i used in my 30s!

senzaparole03 · 22/10/2017 21:44

Since I was 12 I wanted to name my daughter Saidbh (irish name, pronounced sigh-v).

I've resigned to the fact that my DP just cannot get his head around it, so I'm letting it go.

Still a bit sad about it!

PinkFlamingo888 · 22/10/2017 21:43

I was having identical twins Dylan and Nico, then another boy Tyler, then I’d have Sophia followed by Rio then there would be Lily and finally Matthew. I knew all of their dates of birth and exactly how old I’d be when I had them. I was supposed to have had them all by about 22 though so I’m a bit behind 😂

Shockers · 22/10/2017 21:42

Lucinda.

I think I rather liked Jason as a boy's name, but I was quite fixated on the name Lucinda.

SuperBeagle · 22/10/2017 21:40

I loved the name Eamon when I was a child. No idea why, and it's not to my taste at all now.

I've always loved Chloe for a girl, and would've used it if it wasn't so obscenely popular (it's been in the top ten where I live for 15 years).

Kittykatmacbill · 22/10/2017 21:07

Afra and boys Luke, Milo and James.

Painfully 90s names...

UsernameInvalid66 · 22/10/2017 20:29

I was going to have a boy and two girls: Richard, Charlotte and Tamsin. Then later in my teens I really liked Beatrice and Iris for girls. Richard remained on my shortlist until I had DS1, who ended up with another name beginning with R. I still don't dislike any of those girls' names although they probably wouldn't have been my final choices.

Themummy76 · 22/10/2017 20:11

James
Joshua
Trudy
Lilly

Banderwassnatched · 22/10/2017 19:57

Asia, River, India. I had this geography theme going on.

toffee1000 · 22/10/2017 19:53

Not naming a child for 10 weeks? Don't you have to register them within six??

I can't really think of many names, although I do remember liking Faye, Emma, Luna and Katie. That's old now. Nowadays when I think of names I like I usually put them into whatever story I'm writing GrinGrin Still just girl names. Can never think of any boy names I like.

ChipInTheSugar · 22/10/2017 19:49

Chantel-Marie Hmm

Twins would be Harry & Harriet, George & Georgina, you get the idea ..

AdaColeman · 22/10/2017 19:47

Wow! Tancred is fab, I would use that now. I liked Berengaria too!

evilharpy · 22/10/2017 19:45

I was going to have two boys called Joshua and Jordan.

AdaColeman · 22/10/2017 19:43

Sebastian and Dickon (Oh I know! What was I thinking!) were my favourites, didn't use them at all, though I still like Sebastian.

Glowerglass · 22/10/2017 19:38

Georgia
Isaac
Pamela

ifigoup · 22/10/2017 19:38

Girls:
Matty
Charlotte
India
Daisy

Boys:
James
Samuel

(I was a hippyish child, but evidently only when it came to girls.)

AveEldon · 22/10/2017 19:35

Chardonnay

CancellyMcChequeface · 22/10/2017 19:29

For a girl, something very frilly and made-up beginning with A. Amaralinda or Aletheria or something.

Lestat for a boy. Grin

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Mrsknackered · 22/10/2017 18:19

I was really jealous of a girl in my class who's middle name was Anastasia. Florence Anastasia. Still wouldn't mind being called that!

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BubblesPip · 22/10/2017 18:18

Tamsin and Ava. Had one Dd and she’s an Emily.

UntilTheCowsComeHome · 22/10/2017 18:18

I wanted B & G twins called Kurt and Courtney Grin

Then later I favoured Scarlet and Raven.

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