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.

Ziantha and Renisenb both are characters in books. Both my children actually have standard popular names

When I was little I like Danielle for a girl, Daniel for a boy. Leanne/Leon the matchy names. When I was a teen, I was obsessed with the surname Smith as a first name and thought I was super cool….🤣🤣

Ooh nice thread!

My favourites were Clover (What Katy Did - I think...?), Lois (from Superman I assume) and Laurence for a boy (Little W I think). Still quite like them but put off Laurence because of the Fox man.

Andrew and Kimberley

Aviva and Fritha!

I was obsessed with the Walton sextuplets when I was a child

I dreamed of having six little girls called Elizabeth, Rebecca, Susanna, Josephine, Caroline & Philippa. Occasionally I went one further than Mrs Walton and added a seventh called Katharine 😂

Scarlet , for a girl (O’Hara from gone with the wind ) boy Jonathan ( Harker , from Dracula. ) still love those names.

I was having 4 girls called Kizzy (from Roots)
Scarlet (Gone with the Wind)
Megan (Thorn Birds)

I read all these books before I was a teenager.

And Lily (both my Grandmas)
I have one DD with one of the names!
I wasn't having any boys
I have 2...

Lyn and Rick!

Me to! Loved it from ab fab 🤣

I loved 2 boys names since I was about 17 and both my sons have those 2 names with the other one as their middle name . I had my first son at 27 and 2nd at 35, an 8 year gap between them and I still didn’t come up with any names I liked better .

I only had girl names, it would’ve been Atlanta-Marie or Scarlett. I do still like Scarlett!

Tara, Emma or Joanna (I was into The Avengers as a young teen, mostly because I had a crush on Diana Rigg)

Damian, Daniel or Pierce.

I didn't use any of them.

Nicola, Jackie or Natasha ( which I would shorten to Tash).

I was a child in the 90s lol.

I can't remember if I had any boy ideas.

Stacey (which I hate now)
Owen (which is DS's name!)

Alice, Geraldine, Dorothy and Nigel.

My children have none of those names! Although my bump (daughter) was Alice until I gave birth and I decided it didn't suit her 😅

Madonna if a girl, Kenny if a boy.

Gary and Scott. Guess which decade I was a teenager...

Keely
Kylie
Kelly
Kayleigh

I wasn't going to have a boy.

Joanne or Karl. Not keen on either of those names now

I wanted Crystal. Because they’re shiny and sparkly (said by my 10 year old self!!) so it was a pretty name. I never chose Crystal when the time came!

Mortar and pestle (twins)

Leaf, River and Peace.
Very disappointed not to have been allowed hippie names.

I love Persephone 😂although it is my cars name not my kids 🤣

15 y.o
me would have called my kid Charnie-Leigh and probably decked her out in rockports and a striped Fred perry jumper.

thank god I had a little more life experience by the time my kids came along 😂

When I was about seven or eight I wanted a boy called Oliver - which is okay I suppose - still very popular.
And a girl called Gillian. No way.

This was the Seventies, so I've had a lot of changes of taste since.