Did your name preferences change with age?

[BertrandRussell]

I know mine did- my imaginary babies when I was a teenager would have happily fitted into Bob Geldorf's family - the babies I actually had could join the Queen's grandchildren unnoticed.

So. Take, for instance, Sapphire. Would you use it? Are you over or under 25?

[1horatio]

Saphire?

No. but I love Emeraude... 🙈🙈

DD is Clarissa, btw.

And yes, I'm over 25 and so is DH.

[1horatio]

Emeraude Ottilie. Or Emeraude Millicent. Or maybe Emeraude Josephine...


But I guess it will have to stay a guilty pleasure name :/

[NapQueen]

When I was a teen I wanted Chloe and Matthew. When I eventually had my kids I totally changed tastes and they are named after the girl in the Griffin family ("shut up.....") and ds is the same first name as Mr bickle. Clearly dh and his love of TV has influenced my style!

[SorenaJ]

Yes. When I was a teenager I wanted to name my children after reality TV characters.

[Largemelons]

I have 5 children, the first was born when I was 16, the last when I was 31.
My first was a boy and I thank my lucky stars he was a boy as I gave him a pretty normal, sensible name. If he was a girl I had a rather weird and wonderful shortlist including Tammy and Savannah which was no.1.
I still like it but I'd never use it. My DDs all have very sensible top 25 names.
Interestingly, being pregnant again in my late 30's I'm finding I'm veering away from the top 100 names although I'm going classic rather than 1990s Australian sitcom. 😂

[funkt]

When I was younger, they all had a mixture of ghastly and gorgeous names. After I was actually contemplating naming a living being that, my preferences changed. I'd love to name my kids something over the top like 'Basilton' or 'Bronwen' but honestly, I wouldn't. I mainly chose DD1s name because both me and DP thought it suit her and her intelligent little eyes and DD2 got her name because of the meaning and the fact it's such a different name that not many people know.

[MikeUniformMike]

Yes, it has definitely changed. Chose sensible names for DC, and they turned out to be very popular names. Both classic names. Have no regrets.
I think at some point I wanted to call my DD Chloe, Natalie, Anastasia or Sophie.
So glad we didn't. I still like Sophie but not the others.

[MikeUniformMike]

If you asked me aged 7, I would have chosen the name of one of my friends or a character in a book or film. I would not recommend allowing siblings to name a baby. Aged 14 it would probably have been a pop star or a film character.

Names can say a lot about the parent's age, background, ethnicity, taste and so on. Prejudice including snobbery, racism and ageism exist whether we like it or not.