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

I wanted to be Katy. My own name was a bit old fashioned and hasn’t reached granny chic, a bit like Mary or Marjorie.

I wanted to be called Mallory or Lucinda.

I doubt there’ll be any Rhona/Ronas for a long long time

I wanted to be Tiger Lily (from Peter Pan)

I wanted to be Tiger Lily from the Rupert the Bear stories. She wore lovely dresses.

George. I was a big fan of both her and Timmy the dog.

I wanted to be Toni too!

Anastasia Beaverhausen

Laura if my choice, absolutely hate the name i was given

Tiger Lily

KYLIE! My best friend and I fell out over it because we both wanted to use it as our confirmation name when we were 12. We were 7 at the time! Only settled when our class teacher… a nun…. Explained we could only chose the name of a saint for a confirmation name!! She wouldn’t accept Kylie was a saint!

@CharlotteByrde
Absolutely 100% the same with me and both of them.

Cassandra or Melissa.

Talulah
Tuesday
Jamie
or
Davey

I wanted to be called Leah, Maxine and Claire at various points in my childhood.

Fairly consistently Charlotte, but at one stage I liked the idea of being Adelaide too.

In adulthood I've been through phases of thinking I would have liked to be a Sasha or a Carmella.

Meggie, after watching The Thorn Birds.

I desperately wanted to be Stella

Initially, Aurora (was a big Sleeping Beauty fan)

Then went through phases with:

Anne
Vanessa
Christiana
Inga
Berengaria
Noelle
Loveday

I have a very standard/popular name for my age and thought it was so boring.

I also had a very common surname and for a while desperately wanted it to be 'Forrester' instead.

My mum recalls thinking, as a child in the 60s, that the most glamorous surname ever was 'Winterbottom' 🤣

Scarlet

Anya

Though I do also like Anastasia

Jodie
There was a girl at school a few years above with this name & I loved it & said to my 7 year old self that I would call my daughter this.
I can confirm my DD is not called Jodie

Francesca... had a friend at school with that name.. sounded so exotic when read out on the school register... instead of boring Ann. 😴

@MaisyMary77 I wanted to be Joanna too, it was actually the name my parents were going to give me but changed their minds once I was born, I so wanted to be called Jo! I have a name that can be shortened now and everyone calls me the shortened version even at work. I don't mind my name now.