If you could have changed your name as a child,what would you have chosen

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Inspired by another unusual baby name thread.
I remember as a young child hating my boring normal name and wanting to change it.
So glad I kept my name instead of becoming 'crystal star twinkle' that my 6 year old self insisted I wanted to be called.

Sally

Dinah after a character in an Enid Blyton series.

Pollyanna or Heidi

Me too! Or Maud or Enid after characters in The Worst Witch.

Felicity

Joanna. No particular reason why, I just wanted a normal name! My parents gave me quite an unusual name, it took a long time for me to to like it.

I was desperate to have a “normal” name like the other girls in my class and be a Claire, Sarah, Rebecca, Lisa, Emma etc. I hated standing out.

Also a brief flirtation with Elaine as I thought it sounded glamorous 😆

I like it. I was always jealous that George was a girl but everyone still called her George.

No idea why, but I wanted to be called Victoria. I named my doll it instead. I corrected anyone who called her Vicky.

Sally (don't know why!) or Marnie (because I loved the book When Marnie Was There).

roxie

I wanted to be Tracey. Thought it was so trendy !!

I wanted to be either Scarlet, or Victoria so I could shorten it to Vicki (with an i, obviously) or Tori

Theodora. A gymnast at the time (same era as Olga Korbit.

Emma.

I hate my bloody name.

Tina

Jo due to little women

Kylie - Neighbours obsessed…

I wanted to to be Angela

Henrietta, but since I wasn't called that it's what I named my toy dog.

Not me but my older daughter and her friend when they were about seven, on our summer holiday, came up with wanting to be called Kimberly and Alhena. This was in the 80s.
And if she reads this she's gonna know obviously because I've never, ever come across the name Alhena in any context whatsoever. 😂

Charmaine 🤣💅🏿

I wanted to be called Laura as a girl I went to school with who was so lovely was called Laura.

Jackie, it just seemed really trendy (we are talking early 1970s here).

Felicity
I grew up in a rough part of East London, my mum got a job in a nursery when I was young and the owner's daughter was called Felicity, played the piano and rode a horse, I used to get her hand me down clothes (they were lovely people and lovely clothes there was nothing snooty about them). I was deep in the thick of my Enid Blyton phase and would swoosh about in a hand me down dress pretending my name was Felicity.

On a side note that woman actually changed my life, she saw potential in my mum, who'd never had any educational opportunities and left school at 14, the nursery paid for her to do a number of qualifications and she ended up running it. She then went into other management roles and eventually when I was an adult HR. Financially that was huge for us as a family, but as a young girl surrounded by people who didn't value education, or even girls much it showed me I could work hard and do something different. I was the first person in my family to go to university and now have a senior management role in a recognised professional field.