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

167 replies

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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Monkeypuzzle32 · 22/10/2017 18:14

Same as countroscoe Anastasia , I actually had a doll called that when I was very young, Alessandro for a boy!

TheBadgersMadeMeDoIt · 22/10/2017 18:14

Laurel and Rowan.

By the time I became a mum I had been doing battle with both types of tree in my garden for several years and had very much gone off the idea.

LastNightMyWifeHooveredMyHead · 22/10/2017 18:14

Oh, and Augusta. Influenced by the Pullein-Thompson sisters, I fear!

LastNightMyWifeHooveredMyHead · 22/10/2017 18:13

Tancred. I had a Crusader obsession Blush

Coralie and Blanche for the girls

Dixiestampsagain · 22/10/2017 18:11

Michael, Gareth and Natalie- I didn’t use any of them!

StarfruitMoon · 22/10/2017 18:11

Wednesday after the girl from The Addams Family!

whiteroseredrose · 22/10/2017 18:08

George, David, Andrew and Patrick. Or maybe Georgina or Patricia for a girl.

Ledehe · 22/10/2017 18:03

Scarlett Amber Jade Gregory then a few years older Monica Xanthe Yolanda

roseblossom75 · 22/10/2017 17:59

When I was a teenager it was always going to be Amelia which at the time was almost unheard of! (I had it from the Amelia Jane books).

Callamia · 22/10/2017 17:52

Charlotte Liberty
Adam Dejan
Dominic and/or Dominique

I was going to marry a boy I went to school with and live an entirely average (aspirational to me) middle-class life in Cheshire.

I have two boys. Neither are called any of the above. Although, those boys names aren't bad.

Agustarella · 22/10/2017 17:45

Sophia. It was really unusual in the 80s! Unfortunately a lot of other little girls my age and younger seem to have had the same idea.

DeathByMascara · 22/10/2017 17:41

What happened to my strikeout??

DeathByMascara · 22/10/2017 17:41

I thought Chelsea was the height of beauty name-wise at the age of about 8.

Then when I was a teenager, it was Summer and Atlanta. Still think they’re pretty, but went for more mainstream —boring but don’t care— name for DD!

Daniel for a boy. Would still have had that, had dh not vetoed it on the basis he was bullied by a Daniel at school.

BroomstickOfLove · 22/10/2017 17:40

Winona Diana (before the famous actress - I found it in a baby name book and means first-born daughter)

Robin or Marian (because I was in love with Robin of Sherwood).

MummyItsallaboutyou · 22/10/2017 17:35

I was going to have 6 girls.

Harriet
Jessica
Georgina
Evangeline
Beatrice
Tessa

Only Georgina didn't feature on my list when I had DD.

Ditsy1980 · 22/10/2017 17:34

Bronwen after a character on Neighbours or Home & Away.

Twin girls - Autumn and Summer. Still quite like them and also now like Winter.

DD is none of the above but she is a name I have seen on various MN threads as chavvy. Never mind.

JackietheBackie · 22/10/2017 17:30

Ahhh Liitlepond, I have a Bonnie! And she is lovely 😊.

I was going to have Shelby for a girl and Cobalt for a boy. I was very impressed by the repeats of Saphire and Steel so was going for a futuristic vibe.

Talith · 22/10/2017 17:28

Amber
Jade
Harmony
Melody
Tammy
Jason
Joshua
Felix

Didn't use any.

ZetaPuppis · 22/10/2017 17:28

When I was at primary school, a visitor mistook my name for Sarina. I was so disappointed that it actually wasn’t my name that I vowed I would bestow my daughter with this beautiful name.
I didn’t.

yawning801 · 22/10/2017 17:27

I wrote in a diary of mine when I was about five that I'd have a boy called TOLOOK. God knows where I got that from! There was an equally weird girl's name but I can't remember it now!

lostlalaloopsy · 22/10/2017 17:25

Stephanie or Michelle for girls - I really loved Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2, her character was Stephanie 😝😝

And for a boy all I could think of was Joe - and that is what my ds is called!!

deary · 22/10/2017 17:24

Twin girls, Toni and Terri
A boy, Joshua Levi
Then girls (obviously forgot about the twins) Naomi and Leona.

I actually still like the last 3!

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/10/2017 17:20

Paul and Jonathan.

Not sure if I had any girls names lined up.

motheroftwojedi · 22/10/2017 17:17

I wanted two boys called Jordan and Jake.

I have two boys and they are not called Jordan and Jake and they also do not have the same initial.

motheroftwojedi · 22/10/2017 17:12

I wanted two boys called Jordan and Jake.

I have two boys and they are not called Jordan and Jake and they also do not have the same initial.

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