To want to know the name you would have chosen for yourself as a child ?

[ChristineCagney11]

For me it would have been an animal name
Wolf
Eagle
Striker (bike)
Jess/Jessica

Cassandra- I still really love the name, just not the story behind it. Well, the association really as I love Greek myths too.

Chantal or Camille. No idea why. Am a Sarah. Nice to see it mentioned on this thread as a name someone wanted to be called, since it is usually considered boring and over used!

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I wanted to be a Jennifer.

How exotic!

I like my first name, yes a little dated now but not overly popular at the time.
It was my surname I hated, and I gave myself the surname of Jenkins at 14 - obviously not officially!
Later in my teens I shortened my original surname, and I had mail addressed as such, my dad wasn't impressed.

I'm married now, with a very common surname, but I still get called my nickname that's a diminutive of my surname so there's no escaping it really.

I liked my name, still do. I was the only one at school. I was a fan of The Chalet School books and also Little Women. Apparently, when I was born my father was reading a book about Napoleon, and when my mother was thinking about names he suggested Napoleon's wife's name.

Victoria for some unknown reason 😂

Phoebe

Morgana (I was a Merlin fan)

I remember really wanting to be called Dinah after one of the characters in the Enid Blyton Adventure books. My Mum was absolutely horrified.

I also went through a stage of wanting to be called Susan (Arthur Ransome AND Narnia so double points).

Desperately wanted to be called Shiny Tree. For a time 😂

Paige.

As an under 5: Meela ( a name I gave an imaginary friend) or Jenny ( I got lost in a department store and when I was found by a member of staff, I suddenly realised she didn't know me and I could be anyone I wanted, so I told her my name was Jenny. It wasn't).
As a teenager, Petronella or Hermia!

Balonz.

I'm with you there.

When I was younger, I loathed my (mid 1960s born) dull dull name. I always wanted a more exotic name, I wanted to be a Lindsay, a Stephanie, a Suzy or a Lucy! Very exotic to my 8 years old mind. When I was expecting my DH,
I had the boys choice of names, but pushed my poor DH to choose a Zoe or a Josie type of name, as his girls choice - Still never happened… we had a DS who is named after DH🙄

I can't remember now but the name of American states as names was my thing for a bit. I can't now remember what though. Wyoming? I honestly can't recall. I also watched a lot of westerns and wanted to be call Kit/Kitty.

So many lovely names!

I wanted to be Deena, or Sally or Jemima!

Anything other than my boring name - still hate it now.

Loved all the Jade, Scarlett, Crystal names as well.

@SchoolThing
I think you might be my people

Christina - Chris for short

Betty - I did for a year at nursery and my parents got party invitations to “Betty”. Betty was in story books and certainly wasn’t. No idea what the nursery staff were doing to just allow a name change, not just a day but weeks.

This was mine too. I suspect the Toni part because my mother often said she preferred boys to girls ( I was the only girl )
Aurora was another one.

Rhona, thought it sounded all romantic and Highlandy, now it sounds a bit matronly as all the Rhonas I meet are 50ish.

Wendy