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

She ra!

Sammy-Jo

I'm 44 - vaguely remember someone having the name in something I watched as a child. I thought it was so sophisticated

I wanted to be called Judy after my favourite magazine/annual and Judy Garland.

Nina

Hmm maybe not ponies then. Must have been dancers

I've always been happy with mine, seeing it as a part of me.
So I'm now just I suppose bookmarking my place on the thread to see other views!

@Workyticket
Sammy-Jo
I'm 44 - vaguely remember someone having the name in something I watched as a child. I thought it was so sophisticated

Quantum Leap? There's a Sammy Jo in there

Wasn't it Dallas?

At one point it would definitely have been either Kylie or Charlene. When I was younger I liked both Patsy and Betsy, I think there was a Patsy in something on TV and my favourite doll was called Betsy.

I love my name so couldn't imagine anything else ☺️

I wanted to be Laura, as I loved the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Why am I not surprised that not one person has said they wish they had been called Strawberry 🍓?

Tbf I might have gone for Strawberry Shortcake, Victoria Plum or Hollie Hobby too…

Heidi. I still like the name today.

@JockTamsonsBairns
Oh and another thing (😂)
Giving young girls a bowl cut and calling it a "Purdey cut' wasn't fooling anyone
None of us looked like Joanna Lumley.
70's kids everywhere running around looking like Friar Tuck.

Samantha or Tabitha, after the characters in Bewitched.

Vanessa

Or Anne with an E

@ChristineCagney11 I had the purdey cut or the 'pageboy' as my mother called it.

I read the name Penelope and wanted it.
But I thought it was pronounced penny-lope

Oliva because I've always loved that name.

Growing up I wanted to be called Kelly as it was the cool name at our school.

Sandy or Charlie - something quirky and "different" . My own name is nice, but a bit staid, and I wanted something more edgy.

I remember playing a make-believe game in which I was called Lorelei Rocher. I also liked Winona, and was cross when Winona Ryder became famous, because I'd found the name in a baby name book and didn't want people to think I liked it because of someone famous. And I liked Diana because of the goddess and Anne if Green Gables and Anna because it seemed like the sort of name I would have if I was a beautiful Russian poet or artist with dramatic black hair and a cat. I think I must have seen an open university lecture about Anna Akhmatova when off school sick, because when I first encountered her as an older teenager she was absolutely the Anna I'd imagined being.

I was desperate to be Sally. I have no idea why

Mandy.
preferably with surname Russell or Kennedy

Surely dynasty!