Apparently my future grandchildren will be named Bridget and Deirdre

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Has anyone else made the mistake of asking?

DD is 14 and she was being serious.

I love Bridget, I met a 14yo one a couple of weeks ago (in England). Not so keen on Deirdre but if it's the Deirdra pronunciation I could live with it.

We have 2 little Hazels at school and DD1 would have been Caroline but for a family clash. She's 12.

Well she is only fourteen. Nothing wrong with Bridget. Deidre is Ok when pronounced the Irish way - instead of 'ee' at the end, they say, 'a' as in 'er'. Maybe the spelling is different too.

I used to have a cat called 'Everard' and told people if I had a son I would name him, 'Everard' after the cat. I was believed too!

Mine are to be called Scissors and Briefcase and Soreen (as in the malt loaf).

6 year old Dd has been dead set on those for two years now.

Makes me think of Bridget Jones and Deirdre Barlow !!!

Count yourself lucky, people these days are calling their kids Ivy and Marnie!

I picked my kids names when I was 13, and did name them those names.

I picked my kids names when I was 13, and did name them those names.

I think I was slightly younger than this when I found a name I loved for a boy and that is what he is now called.

We know a family where the parents originate from China and they gave their girls mandarin names as well as english names. Beverly and angela.....he called them Bev and Ange.....

Gosh mine are seriously going to be called missy, junior, Mercy- I have a teen (who legally can now have a child) and this has been a preoccupation for some years. I’ve quite got used to Missy to my surprise.

In one of the Ramona Quincy books. (Which I still love) she calls her doll Chevrolet, as she thinks it's a beautiful name. And all her family laugh at her.
I'm with her, it is a lovely name. Bit that I would use it for real!

Mine are Claude and Birdie!

My son’s suggestions for the school chickens (substitute children) were Jeff and Steve.

My 5yo DS intended to have 100 children and he was going to call them all Batman. Even the girls were going to be called Batman.

We also have a lot of Chinese families at our school so have some 5-7 year olds called Alan, Kevin, Candice, Peter, Brian and John.

Both of these were on my list for DD! I LOVE Deirdre, and it goes really well with our surname. DH vetoed it, though

My DD loves the names Boris and Donald. After Johnson and Duck.

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I knew a Deirdre once....good deal younger than me...(am 55) only she pronounced it as Dee-AIR-dra, which sounds much more lovely than Dear-dree, which really smacks of someones elderly irish spinster type relation.

I knew a Deirdre too and I am also 55 she was the same age as me, and she was a very pretty girl, so I tend to think of a cross between her and Deirdre Barlow

My DD likes Delilah and Teddy (she is 25 though). I was going to have Jaqueline and Susie, which I named my dolls, but chose neither for my DD I had no boys names as I decided I was only having girls, I had 2 boys and a girl

Oh and Pippy after Pippy long stocking

I really want to wake up my 7yo DD and enquire as to the names of my future grandchildren (but I’m not sure she’d be terribly impressed

DD wants to call her DD Clover. If she doesn't change her mind, I really like it!

I love Bridget! I was going to name DS2 that if he was a girl

Apparently DD (6) will be presenting me with twin granddaughters named Ruby and Crystal. She is also considering Violet, but is tending towards changing her name to that instead!

Mine are going to be Arianna Grande and Pistachio

I was going to have Hansel and Gretel from one dc, she was really into original Grimms fairy tales.