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Which name would you have picked for yourself as a teen?

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KimHwn · 20/10/2025 08:06

Was just thinking about how much our tastes change as we grow, and as fashions change.

When I was in my mid-teens, I was desperate for a posh English name. I probably would have chosen Constance for myself, which would have been ridiculous- I am neither posh nor English. When I was in primary school and playing house, I always called myself Nicole. Again, I am not a Nicole at all.

What would you have picked for yourself as a teen?

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Peachee · 25/10/2025 21:56

Skye

LadyKenya · 21/10/2025 21:38

dailyconniptions · 21/10/2025 12:10

Cleo is a lovely name!

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That is what I think too.

Idstillratherbepaddleboarding · 21/10/2025 21:27

I so wanted to be Ashleigh. I still would TBH.

RubyBirdy · 21/10/2025 21:25

Molly or Scarlett.

SwedishEdith · 21/10/2025 21:18

I definitely wanted Carol but I'm laughing at Toni as I'm sure I'd have wanted that as well. Imagine that signature with a circle over the i.

DoNotEatWithYourMouthOpen · 21/10/2025 20:52

My name is usually used for someone 10 years older than me. I dont really like my name. I wanted to be either Anne-Marie or Leah. I still love the name Leah.

thecatneuterer · 21/10/2025 20:35

As a young teen - Barbara (jeez). As an older teen, as a result of studying Twelfth Night, Olivia (I'd still be happy with that)

TheGrimSmile · 21/10/2025 13:50

Karen! 😆

hyggetyggedotorg · 21/10/2025 13:47

Chloe.

bittertwisted · 21/10/2025 13:40

Now I want to be called Delilah

Catpiece · 21/10/2025 13:39

Debbie. It was right on trend in the 70s. My name, however, was not.

bittertwisted · 21/10/2025 13:39

KittyRannaldini · 20/10/2025 08:08

Emma.

That’s my name
i wanted to be called Belinda 😂😂😂😂

BertieBotts · 21/10/2025 13:25

Christina - I thought it was the most beautiful and glamorous sounding name Grin

SkippingClara · 21/10/2025 13:23

Clara! Lucy or Felicity. Still like those names. My DD is Felicity 😃.

crackofdoom · 21/10/2025 13:19

Silver.

(Also a pretentious wannabe willowy and mysterious goth 😆).

EmotionallyWeird · 21/10/2025 12:55

Usually Charlotte, but I also liked the name Adelaide and would have liked to be called it if it wasn't quite so unusual at the time.

Firebird83 · 21/10/2025 12:28

I wanted to be called Ashley, I thought it was a cool American name for a girl 😁

midgetastic · 21/10/2025 12:27

David

i am female
it was a long time ago

RaraRachael · 21/10/2025 12:24

I've always had a hankering to be called Linda. It was very popular when I was young.

Nobody can understand my name or spell it so when I'm somewhere like Starbucks I say I'm Linda.

dailyconniptions · 21/10/2025 12:10

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Cleo is a lovely name!

Dearnurse · 21/10/2025 11:50

Lily or phoebe... I actually wish I'd have changed my name , my name doesn't suit me at all but it's too late now I'm in my 30s people with think im having a crisis 🤣

mellongoose · 21/10/2025 04:14

Jessica or Elizabeth. I basically wanted to live inside the Sweet Valley High books.

DownyEmerald · 21/10/2025 04:09

Natasha

I liked the Russian-ness I think. I don't like it now!

Pemba · 21/10/2025 03:25

I wanted to be either Sara(h) or Clare. I think from reading children's literature, 'A Little Princess' and 'Charlotte Sometimes', which I loved. Wasn't fussed about Charlotte itself though, which is obviously much more popular now. Clare was the girl from the past that Charlotte exchanged places with, in the time slip story.

I also just liked the sound of both names, and actually there were lots of Sarahs and Clares at school with me.

maras2 · 21/10/2025 02:58

Aeronwy.
At 13,I was in my moody Dylan Thomas phase and this is his daughter's name.
Got over it by age 16 when I read the Forsyte Saga and wanted to be Irene.

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