When you were a child/teen what baby name were you going to 'definitely' use for future DC's?

[Kirstle]

...And did any of you actually use them?

You have to put the rough year too, so we can spot the trends, if any.

Me:

1991 (I was ten) I wanted Kylie and Trystin. Yes spelled like that. And Kylie had a heart above the 'i'. Ahem

1996 (fifteen) I wanted Phoebe Luna (had an interest in astronomy) and Maxwell Jordan.

Still love Phoebe now, the others...not so much!

around 1990 aged 10ish Kiri and Hemi (Kiri dd3 mn)
1994ish so 14/15 Ngaire (dd1s mn) and Atama (ds1mn)
1996 having lived in uk for a few years I loved Hattie and James (Hemi is the Maori form of James)

Im From New Zealand and am of Maori decent hence the 'foreign' sounding names!

I wanted Joseph from the age of about 14 after seeing Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond.

My Joseph is 4 :)

circa 1986 so I was 11

Anastasia from the book Anastasia Krupnik

Zachary
Emmanuel
Michal

circa 1990
Atlanta
Pheonix

Emmanual is DS1's middle name
Zachary is DS2 and Michal is one of his middle names.

At the age of ten I was dead set on calling any future DC Lloyd and Sapphire

I like to think that I have slightly more sophisticated taste now :o

As a small child I wanted a Lucy or Isobel, as an older child I wanted a daughter called Amber (would've settled for a dog though), and as a teen I wanted a Skye or Oscar.

Don't really like any of them now. Lucy and Isobel are quite nice but were never serious contenders for any of the DCs.

Jessica.

I was convinced it the height of feminine sophistication.

I didn't use it.

Jordan back in the 70s

I loved this book A Time to Love, A Time to Mourn
Thankfully I grew up and my DCs now have classic biblical names

Ages about 15, me and my two best mates had an argument over which of us would get to name our daughter Roxanne. I'm the only one of us who had a kid, and he's a boy, so no, it wasn't used! Just as well because my surname rhymes with it!

I always wanted

Cyan Or Skye for a girl, Christian or Nicholas for a boy.
I now have 3 dc but didn't use any of my old favourite names.

Hi Dillydollydaydream

When I was 8 in 1978 I just knew that my first-born daughter would be called Jacqueline, because it was a name that smacked of maturity and sophistication, and you could pretend that Jackie magazine was named after you.

Thank god I grew out of that delusion pretty sharpish. My DDs are pretty grateful too, I think.

Great thread!

I wanted to call a daughter Chianti when I was about 14, I don't believe I was a chavvy child, or a wino for that matter! Thankfully I grew up.

2002 michelle stephanie

2006 tristan adelphi -still love it

2008 Bryony Jack

My 15 year old self (1987) too thought Jacqueline was the most exotic name ever
and for a boy...Blue

1960's I wanted Nicola Robin for a girl and Dominic James for a boy!!
My dc were born in the 70's and I didnt use any of those names

Aged 14 (1988) I was confident I was going to have twin girls names Samantha and Siobhan.

My fantasy was to have two sets of twins - both sets would be girls. First set to be called Andrea and Esther and second set to be called Caroline and Louise. Neither of my daughters have those names.

From the age of about 14 i've wanted an Honor....now we have one and i'm delighted.

Don't get me started on boys...!!!

Lily and Harry

Have neither. I was set on Harry but DS2 just didn't look like one!

When i discovered my favourite great aunt "Gertrude" had a really pretty middle name, I always knew that if I had a DD she would call that.

carlotta

Irrc she was the flashing eyed exotic circus girl from st clares

Or Star from the lost boys ( I loved her hair)

Oh and she is. DD2 isn't Rebbeca, which would have been my other teenage choice, since DH's first GF was called that and he wasn't quite comfortable about it.
In fact she ended up with the name of someone he fancied of TV who's name me, DD1 and the extended family all liked.