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.

I did change my name. Unofficially at 14 when I moved school then by deed poll on the first day I could.

I went with my middle name (thankfully my lovely Nana practically bullied my parents into giving me a 'boring' nickname to go with the monstrosity their drug addled brains came up with) for easiness.

I did have a shortlist with Elizabeth (nn Libby), Alexandra (nn Alexa - thank fuck I didn't go with that!), and Madeleine on it

Emma

I was obsessed with Sweet Valley High and I also wanted a western name. So Jessica.

VERY glad I couldn’t. I love my name now, and its connection to my heritage.

No offence to Jessica, but it’s a very bland name!

Lyra!

Lisa - haven’t thought about it since childhood but as soon as I read the title of this thread it popped into my head.

Not me, but a younger relative - firstly when we were going metric he wanted to change his name from Miles to Kilometres, and secondly he got a bit fixated with dogs and decided that actually a much better name would be Bonzo. 50 years later I think he's over it!

Elizabeth, my mother’s first choice of name that my grandmother talked her out of. I like my name fine enough but Elizabeth has many more shortenings that I could have chosen from.

I had a pair of these one Xmas, I must have been about 9 and thought they were wonderful 😂

floppy floppy fluffy

I had many…
Kelly
Sharon
Victoria
Felicity…

I have a classic, shortish and elegant name. Hated it. I wanted a bit of pizzazz. Something a bit fancy like Veronica or Esmeralda. Maybe Vespera or Tatiana.

I went to stage school and there was a student teacher called Keeley and I just adored her - I wanted that name.

I was really into the name Gemma as a kid for some reason

I loved the name Louise, it was all my barbies names and when I was old enough to want one my fake ID name.

If there are any Louise's out there you were the height of cool to teen me 😎

From the age of about 8 I was obsessed with the name Maria. It seemed so exotic and glamorous. Totally unlike my cousin Marie who was very generous and kind but absolutely not glam or exotic being from Salford. In my teens I wished I was Rhian or Rhiannon, one of which is my middle name but I didn't know how to just start using it so I never did.

I have an uncommon name. I wanted to be called Susan. A pretty, ordinary name that nobody would remark about. My favorite doll was called Susan.

I had an unusual (Posh) name and loathed it wanted to be called Joanna

Leila is supposed to say Liesl 😏 my English keyboard obviously doesn’t agree

Clara from Heidi

Max (in early primary years at least) - the boys seemed to get to do all the fun stuff and that would have been my preferred boy name.

Jessica

Joanna, because of everything that I perceived to go with it - confidence, maturity, popularity, beauty, brains - everything I lacked 😂.

Sarah. I wanted to fit in, and my name always made me stand out.

(I am 56 and still don’t feel that my name feels like mine.)

Most of these are fairly normal!

I wanted to be Christabelle. Good job I wasn't in charge of names.

As a child I longed to be called Mandy, it just seemed like the epitome of cool to me.