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If you could have chosen your name...

39 replies

CocoLoco87 · 04/05/2019 21:40

Just for fun, if you got to choose your name when you were a child, would it differ to what you'd choose as an adult?

5 year old me: Kimberly after the pink power ranger, or Barbie Blush, or Lightening don't ask

Adult me would choose Chloe, my favourite girls name.

My actual name is very plain and boring and lots of other MNetters agree!

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BethanyGilbert · 05/05/2019 10:47

I wish I was called Karen. I work with many Karens. And I am envious.

NameChangedNoImagination · 05/05/2019 02:06

Tinkerbell.

Pandora.

Whoops75 · 05/05/2019 00:02

Me at 5 would call myself Emily

Me at 45 would be Carrie or Anna

Orchidflower1 · 04/05/2019 23:58

I like my name - in fact I secretly prefer it to my siblings names!!

CamdenTownie · 04/05/2019 23:55

I always wished my name was Natalie when I was little, now I think I'd choose Katherine or Kate.

paperandfireworks · 04/05/2019 23:29

As a child I wanted to be Nicole nm NickyHmm

As an adult it would be Emma. My name is uncommon and I've always wanted to be one of the Lauras/ Rachels/ Rebeccas

hewontstopshitting · 04/05/2019 23:15

I was going to be Indie, and I’ve always wished my parents went through with it. I’ve got a very boring name instead

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 04/05/2019 23:15

Child me wanted to be a boy. Paul.

A zillion years later I think I’d like to be called Anna or Hannah.

MairzyDoats · 04/05/2019 23:14

When I was 4 I said I wanted to be called Rachel. Not a clue why. I'd have loved a fancy victorian name as a child, like Araminta, but as an adult I wish I'd been called Olivia (which was what I was nearly called.)

noodlefairy · 04/05/2019 23:10

I'd be either Frances nn Frankie, Georgia nn George or Maxine nn Max

Rudytherednosedmoose · 04/05/2019 22:06

I wanted to be called Jodie, Rebecca or Eleanor as a kid
Now as an adult, I wish I was called Josephine or Penelope

MountainEagle · 04/05/2019 22:05

As a child I’d have chosen something romantic and feminine like Juliet. As an adult I’d probably choose the exact opposite and go for a classic strong name with a masculine nickname like Joe or Charlie.

missmouse101 · 04/05/2019 22:00

Kim, Poppy, Blanche or Sasha as a child. Lois, Fern or Faye as an adult!

GMtoBe · 04/05/2019 21:52

Young me would have been Fabienne after a girl I went to school with who was really popular and I wanted to be like. Adult me would have been Amber. My mum originally chose this because of the colour of my hair and my dad put his foot down and said absolutely not. Amber is much nicer than my now very dated classic 80s name!