What would your children be called if you gave them the name you came up with as a boy/girl?

[Peoppy]

I would have a Ryder (male) and a Zola or Nova.

Came up with them when I was probably 15/16.

Not horrifically horrendous but I would now be disappointed had I become a teen mum.

Mine would be Daisy and Matthew, pretty normal names. I prefer something more unusual now.

Pamela! 🤔I had a doll with this name and thought it was VERY sophisticated . . . it was my favourite name for a long time

Boy- Ezekiel
Girl- Sage or Paige.

Good thing I had my first at the age of 38 tbh. I quite like all the names still- but they would not have suited either of mine.

Paulette. Like my doll!

Oh! I forgot that for a time when I was 16 i wanted to change my own first name by deedpoll to 'Moffatt'. (I'm Caroline which I like now)

She-ra
Alanna

Damien
(All names preferred by me when I was very, very young, if it is evident…)

Vanessa like my favourite doll.

Penelope, Lorelei and Athena.

Oddly enough I didn't think of any boys names! 😂

Had my daughter been a boy she'd have been Miles. And no, she's not Penelope, Lorelei or Athena! 😂

I would have a daughter called Saffron.

Jacinta. I loved this name for years and still like it. I recently asked DD if she would’ve liked to have been Jacinta and she said she hated it!

When I was younger, my favourite boy’s name was Callum. I was disappointed when it became really popular.

Something pretentious like Andromeda or Persephone. 😁

Cameron (boy) and Brooke (girl). I still like those names to be honest!

Amberley & Ariadne

Cassandra and Finian. I still like them.

I’d planned 3 girls named Leah, Nyah and Tèa

Yes they all rhyme. No none of my children have those names!

Jessica, Susan and James.

I honestly can't remember what names I imagined for my theoretical offspring when I was a kid (and I don't have any children) but I do remember that the boyfriend I was seeing when I was 17 and he was 21 randomly announced that if he had children he'd want to call them Logan and Angel, and I massively offended him by sneering at his (I thought) terrible choices.

Not me but my DF ~

My DF was in Europe during WW2 and sent my DM a set of framed watercolours of 4 cherubic babes. These were hung on the wall of the nursery when I was tiny. Later in my childhood I had a set of Winnie the Pooh pictures and asked my DM if it was OK to use the frames from the baby pictures. She helped me to take the watercolours out and we found that DF had written names on the back of each one . . . Peter, Paul, Margaret & Mary. Neither me nor my my sibling had been given one of those names!

Depends upon which age.

7 - Edmund (an uncle who was actually nice to me), Alice (my great aunt) and Alexandra.

13 - Probably from some utterly gorgeous but hopelessly unsuitable boys. Antonio, Santiago and Vincenzo.

5 and a half - Pippa (after my rabbit), Kitty (after my cat) and Millicent Margaret Amanda from the Milly-Molly-Mandy books.

I loved Daphne from either Mallory Towers or The Twins at St Clare’s (can’t remember which), and also from the same I was keen in. Gwendoline and Willemina (spelling?)

I had a very very long list of pretentious names I liked, none of which I used (my children will thank me) Like a PP Persephone was on there, as was Cornelius and Montgomery.

I am cringing as I type

A girl, Posy after the dancer in Ballet Shoes
A boy, no name. I could not countenance having a boy

Persephone (Percy) which I hated years later but mow I’ve remembered it I really quite like it again!

Edward and an American sounding name that I cannot recall. It’s really bugging me now! A friend called her child Edward and I was really upset, not reasonably as I’d not told her ‘my’ names!

I had a hamster called Posy!

Meggie, after the girl/woman in The Thorn Birds. I loved that film.

I actually spoke to a woman named Athena earlier today: she had a Greek- sounding surname:

I wanted to call my hypothetical daughter Myfanwy : I had a thing about my Welsh origins