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!

I was convinced I would want names like Indigo, Willow and Keziah for girls. And Kai and Reuben for boys.

Still quite like Reuben, but if I had surprise fraternal twins right now they would be Iris and Arthur.

Umm as a child I wanted a Sarah. My dolls were Sarah, Helen & Heidi if that gives you an idea.
As a teen (90's) I wanted Poppy & William. Although I rather liked the idea of Billy-Joe at one stage, I also went through a faze of wanting Titania or isold and Tristan, School literature seemed to influence me.

None of my children have these names btw.

Early 90's I loved Jade and Chloe and Ryan for a boy- do not like any of them at all now!

Britney after Ms Spears! VOM!

My DD actually has a really unusual name that was mentioned on this thread. So someone had good taste early!

Damaris, after some character in a historical novel I read in my teens.

Mind you, if Ds1 had been a girl, he'd have been called Arwen.

As a child I loved Amanda, Samantha and Paul but my favourite names at the minute are Lawrence and Rufus for boys, Mary and Tabitha for girls.

Morticia, misery and melancholia. For my 3dds.

I have 2dds and no I was not brave enough.

Amazing names though if you have the bottle.

Thursley for a boy and Bethany for a girl. Then changed from Bethany to Zephelina

Aurora Leigh or Desdemona

In 1983 I loved Adam and Sian (I was 12)
In 1993 it was Jessica and William
In 2003 it was Max and Chloe

I have a Tom

Always loved Eloise - it's DD's Middle name, 20 years on.....

Mid 80s I wanted two girls - Saffron and Amy.

Now, I do have two girls but neither of them have the above anywhere in their names.

My DP deliberately chose traditional/old fashioned names for me and my siblings. DM had a friend with a large extended family who all gave their DC what I considered to be trendy names such as Jade/Amber etc and hyphenated names. The teens in this family all seemed tremendously sophisticated and fashionable and impressed me so much that I was determined to have a daughter caller Billy-Jo, Sarah-May or Jade-Amber. I've not used any of these.

From about 14 to 30s I decided that I did not want DC so didn't give this much thought but remember (probably about 14) several friends discussing this with their boyfriends and deciding that they would call their eldest son Junior. Most also wanted sons called Corey and Bradley. Not aware of any that did actually have Junior, Corey and Bradley.

I did call DD a name that I (aged about 16/17) often wished I had been called.

Rosie and Noah.

Rosie doesn't work with our surname (never forgiving DH for this) and DH hates Noah.

At 18, I wanted Lily and Charlie. Decided against these as far too popular for our tastes.

DD's name is nothing like this!

I loved party of five and had a massive crush on Charlie ( Matthew Fox)....and Neve Campbell was just the coolest.

I also had a massive crush on Byron in the winds of war! Lol

Charlie is now my cat! Obviously in my psyche somewhere. Lol

Samuel, and yes.

Shannon.

No, didn't use it.

As a teen in the nineties I wanted Leigh Ashley for a girl and James Kurt for a boy. No idea where any of those came from apart from the Kurt which was Cobain obvs.

In fact James has always been a favourite of mine and I could have imagined calling a DS that in a different life, but DH is James and so are half his friends (really!) and also another friend's DS.

Another name I thought I'd use from when I was little was Heaven-Leigh. I loved the Virginia Andrews book Heaven.

Noah and Luca for boys. Both to do with ER. Christopher and Demitri () as middle names.Still like all of those bar Demitri, but had two DD's.
Also Barnaby after John nettles character in midsomer murders! Wtf?!

As a child (am old) I wanted Dirk (Bogarde) and Tyrone (Power) as I loved them in the old black and white films! As a teen-ager I wanted Kim and Leslie ,(boy). All very very different to the names I chose!!!

Rio

He was the boys friend of Jerrica in some awful cartoon. For years I thought this was a great name and would definitely have used it if I'd been a teenage mum. My non existent Rio would be in his twenties now.

Obviously, I too was under the impression I would have boy/girl twins.
I decided they would be Nathaniel and Cornelia (nn. Nate and Connie) although earlier they were to be Taryn (boy) and Thalia (Tah-lee-ah)

When I was younger I liked Rachel and Rebecca I still do but they aren't number one on the list any more And for boys I liked cody and james and I still love those names

Late 90s

Aslak for a boy. Haven't used it yet but will if I do have a son.

Alice for a girl. Didn't use it.