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

Gemma

I used to have a set of books about a girl called Gemma who went to dance school and I wanted to be her

Or was it Gemma and pony club?

Lucy because The Lion the witch and the wardrobe or Charlotte.

As a child I loved gymnastics and so would have liked Ludmilla or Olga.

Elle

Clare or Louise or Lisa

Heidi or martha

This one ? Don't know how old you are but looks fairly recent so might be wrong
janebadgerbooks.co.uk/product/gemma-and-the-pony-club-dance/

@Arnaquer
Sorry meant to tag you for above post

As a young child I told my mum I wished she’d called me Pasty. As in Cornish, not pale complexion.

I’d misread the name Patsy.

It’s odd it never occurred to my parents to choose Pasty 😂. I do still like a pasty though, cheese and onion mostly.

Samantha

It felt so glamorous to me back in the late 70s, in comparison to my own name which is solid and sturdy 😂.

There was a Samantha in my older sister's class who had lovely hair with clasps in, and she was even allowed shiny patent school shoes, so I guess that's where it stemmed from.
My mother was a no-nonsense type who had my hair cut short, and made me wear brown Polyveldt shoes 😳

Betty. Child of the 80’s so would have been an odd choice for my parents who picked the number one name each year for their kids!

@Maireas did your Tiger Lily live in a pagoda in the wood. I think I remember her....short bobbed hair and had a wand????

Naomi- and I'm not Jewish- just felt nicely exotic!

Catchfire
I came across it in some kids fantasy type book which I've never found again though would love to track it down

Generally anything that wasn't a song title. At different ages it was different names depending on what I was reading or watching so Heidi, Darrel, then Mary as in Ingles) as I got older I wanted to be called Sandy ( which is a song but it was sung by Danny Zuko so is cool)

Snap! I have a generationally wrong name that has not aged well and is not granny chic. I've always wanted to be called Kate. Timeless and beautiful.

@JockTamsonsBairns
This feels like a start of a new thread 😂 I had to wear a massive skirt with flares to school and "clod Hoppers" as they were called, just the cheapest shoes in the world..

Carlotta the name of an exciting girl in the Enid Blyton book Mr Gallianos Circus . Also Kizzy from the book and tv series about the little Romany girl .

I was DESPERATE to be called Lizzy.
I was also evidently too stupid to realise that this would have easily been possible to implement, since my middle name is Elizabeth 🙄

I had several I would flit between.
Lucy
immy (Imogen)
harmony
Emma.

I was desperate to change my name to Ocean when I was around 11.

😂 My school days were hideous, thanks to my mother's refusal to buy me anything she considered frivolous or "faddy".
Not only did I have to have short hair and Polyveldts, my school bag was an actual canvas army satchel 😳.

It's funny, my sister and I (now in our 50s) have grown up entirely differently in response to our upbringing. Dsis surrounds herself with frivolity to compensate for all that we weren't allowed. I, on the other hand, find it incredibly difficult to buy myself anything which could be deemed 'unnecessary'.

Anyway, sorry to derail. There's definitely another thread in there somewhere.

Mia. Just because I have always loved the name.

I had a friend called Tracey who's name I loved it seemed so modern, also sisters on my street were called Emmeline and Francesca nn Emmie and Frankie I thought their names were amazing.

I also read a book aged about 6 and fell in love with the name Phoebe although I read it as Phobee, I didn't like it as much when my Mum told me how to pronounce it.