What did you think you would call your kids

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I couldn't sleep last night and for some reason I thought back to the names I decided I would call my kids when I was younger so my son would have been called Jordan Tyler
My daughter was going to be called Tara, don't know why it just seemed the height of sophistication at the time 😂
3 children on and not one of those names has been used!! Was just wondering what names you thought you would use and did you actually call your children these names?

Megan Rose and Dylan James were my names when I was younger. I now have a Luisa Clara and a Benedict Theodore.

Alana after the Girl from Tomorrow.

Or Scarlet or Yasmin which I thought were really exotic.

From the age of 17 I wanted a particular name for any boy I had. I now have one who’s 18!

Jade/jayde
Amber
Christopher
Joey
Daisy

Didn’t call any of mine any of those!

Grace or Eleanor for a girl, Jacob or Joshua for a boy.

We ended up adopting and his name is none of those. And the middle names we did add aren't those either!!

I thought Carly was the most beautiful and sophisticated name I’d ever heard, I first heard it on Home and Away! Did not end up calling DD Carly, my 10 year old self would be very disappointed!

When I was a teenager I planned to call my daughter Molly.

When I actually had children they were going to be Lily, Ella and either Alice or Ruby.

They are all boys.

When I was a child, Alexander and Alexandra

Then Keely, Kylie and Kelly

Then. When I was first married, Bradley and Elizabeth

22 years ago I finally had a dd called Florence.

Thank god I didn't use Bradley as with my surname it's similar to a famous person.

I loved Tammy for a girl! (Tammy girl teenager shop, showing my age!)
I did have a girl but called her Holly and can't imagine her being anything else - she suits her name - beautiful to look at but prickly too (teenager!)

I always imagined I would have three girls ,they were going to Meghan, Hannah,and Elizabeth, I had two boys

My favourite name was always Shannon, I didn't use it tho. Then I saw a film when I was about 8 and the girls were called Patience, Constance, Cadence I think and some similar to that. I wish I remembered the film now, those names seem kind of try-hard now. Although Connie I still think is lovely, also Bonnie. For boys I wanted to use my favourite uncles names but I didn't do that either!

Erin and James. Used neither, but still like both a lot.

Crystal!!

Thankfully I didn’t have dcs in the 80s!

I always wanted to call a boy a certain name. Had two girls first and that would have been their name if they were a boy. It would have worked with their Dad's surname (it didn't really work with mine)

Then met DH. Had DS. Realised midway through my pregnancy that the name was out because it would be ridiculous. Think Jack Russell/Harley Davidson type combo. When I was in labour and high on gas and air I actually told the midwife on DH for having the "wrong" surname

I picked DD’s name when I was 9. Fortunately my then husband agreed

Then when she was born obviously, not then when I was 9

I called my cabbage patch kid Madeline Carolina. Always to be used with both names but never hyphenated DD got off lightly.

I always wanted Helena Grace & Callum Thomas. I have 2 boys and one girl...I used the Callum Thomas for my first born.

Sandy and Danny, after the girl and boy in 'Grease'!

Tabitha didn't call my dd that thankfully. Loved the name as a child though!

Didn't use either!

Amanda and Susannah. I was a child of the 70s lol.

Zarozinnia 😂😂

I was going to call my kids Ryan and Marissa after the OC, I even planned on emigrating to California in the hope I could live vicariously through my aptly named children.

I also thought Kyle was the height of sophistication.

Girls Saffron, Jade, Sapphire those type of names
Boys Harley, Levi or Kurt

Ended up with 2 old lady names

I always wanted to call my children David and Sally! Luckily I grew out of this.
Always wanted to change my name to Karen when I was a child too.