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What are your children called?

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Otterlyadorable · 17/10/2025 19:22

Hi everyone!
Im due my second baby at the end of this year and am struggling with names!
I was wondering if any of you would be willing to share the names you’ve called your children or names of grandchildren/neices/nephews etc.
Sometimes I think it’s nicer to hear about people’s actual choices, whether they regret or love their choice, how it suits their child etc.
I have read through almost every list going - thought this might be a different way to get some ideas!
Thank you so much

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AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 17/10/2025 21:55

Tarquin, Drusilla, Hortensia, Bartholomew, Leopold and Kevin.

NameChangedForThis2025 · 17/10/2025 21:58

Names on our joint list that didn’t make it:

Alexander
Benjamin
Joshua

Emily
Grace
Madeline
April

I adore Eleanor but that was thoroughly vetoed by my partner.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 17/10/2025 21:59

Hotvimtoandwaffles · 17/10/2025 19:52

Boris, Boristoff, Borisson and Borisette x

Evening Carrie!

Movingtodarkestperu · 17/10/2025 22:01

I liked delilah and Amos. Dh did not

SpackelFrog · 17/10/2025 22:01

Susan and Jeremy

DFAEKJF2021 · 17/10/2025 22:04

I won’t say what our boy is called but if it was a girl my husband loves Leila

FlowersFawb · 17/10/2025 22:11

steff13 · 17/10/2025 19:24

#1 Son, #2 Son, and The Girl One. I tried calling them all "loin fruit" for a while, but they didn't really like it.

Wheres the lauging reaction when you need it hahaha.

dapsnotplimsolls · 17/10/2025 22:11

Balonz and Myra.

FlowersFawb · 17/10/2025 22:13

Anthempart2 · 17/10/2025 19:28

I won’t say my kids actual names but the number 2 contender for each was Madeleine and Cassius. Which both sound super fancy and not at all like the names we actually gave them which are top 20, weirdly.

Cassius is a name I have on my list!

OrangeAxolotyl · 17/10/2025 22:14

DFAEKJF2021 · 17/10/2025 22:04

I won’t say what our boy is called but if it was a girl my husband loves Leila

Lylus?
Lylim?

OrangeAxolotyl · 17/10/2025 22:15

Movingtodarkestperu · 17/10/2025 22:01

I liked delilah and Amos. Dh did not

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My, my, my.

sunsu · 17/10/2025 22:16

Names I like and would seriously use,

Henry
George
Samuel
Eddy
Robert
Hamish

Eilidh
Ella
Ethel
Alice
Maggie

Names I like but wouldn’t be brave enough to use,

River
Autumn
Blue
Pheonix
Sunny
Atticus

YourWinter · 17/10/2025 22:18

Flopsy , Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.

CausalInference · 17/10/2025 22:20

One's we didn't use but were on the shortlist... Isaac, Noah, George, james, Henry, William, Martha, Elizabeth, Alice, Charlotte

letstrythatagain · 17/10/2025 22:26

Bizarre responses to a simple request. I have a Beth 😊

OrangeAxolotyl · 17/10/2025 22:26

Field
Mountain
Volcano
Plateau
Escarpment (nn Scarpy)

SouthLondonMum22 · 17/10/2025 22:26

Mine are called Rupert, Felicity & Matilda.

ThePoshUns · 17/10/2025 22:30

Would you like my mothers maiden name as well?

ThePoshUns · 17/10/2025 22:31

Or the name of my first pet maybe?

Crispynoodle · 17/10/2025 22:34

Balonz one and Balonz two

MidnightMusing5 · 17/10/2025 22:35

Harmony and Melody 😉

Crispynoodle · 17/10/2025 22:36

IRL I have a William a Sarah a Kathryn and a Charles (OMG! Royal family much? I’m not even a monarchist)

PyongyangKipperbang · 17/10/2025 22:37

I have six and (genuinely!) I now call them by their "Borg" names. So eldest is One of Six, second is Two of Six!

Started as a joke but its stuck!

I wanted to call my youngest Petra but ex vetoed. He has since conceded that it would really have suited her. So that would be my suggestion.

TappyGilmore · 17/10/2025 22:37

Favourite girls’ names but couldn’t use as they didn’t work with surname:

Sydney
Stella
Asher

OrangeAxolotyl · 17/10/2025 22:37

MidnightMusing5 · 17/10/2025 22:35

Harmony and Melody 😉

Symphony and Rhapsody

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