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What did you plan to call your children (when you were a child?)

167 replies

Mrsknackered · 22/10/2017 15:44

Indigo Blue
Violet Skye
Sunny Rae
Sienna Rose
Posy Flo

(In that order)

I think Sonny Ray and Arthur Bear were the boys names....

I have 2 DS's with much less colourful names still holding a torch for Indigo

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evilharpy · 22/10/2017 19:45

I was going to have two boys called Joshua and Jordan.

AdaColeman · 22/10/2017 19:47

Wow! Tancred is fab, I would use that now. I liked Berengaria too!

ChipInTheSugar · 22/10/2017 19:49

Chantel-Marie Hmm

Twins would be Harry & Harriet, George & Georgina, you get the idea ..

toffee1000 · 22/10/2017 19:53

Not naming a child for 10 weeks? Don't you have to register them within six??

I can't really think of many names, although I do remember liking Faye, Emma, Luna and Katie. That's old now. Nowadays when I think of names I like I usually put them into whatever story I'm writing GrinGrin Still just girl names. Can never think of any boy names I like.

Banderwassnatched · 22/10/2017 19:57

Asia, River, India. I had this geography theme going on.

Themummy76 · 22/10/2017 20:11

James
Joshua
Trudy
Lilly

UsernameInvalid66 · 22/10/2017 20:29

I was going to have a boy and two girls: Richard, Charlotte and Tamsin. Then later in my teens I really liked Beatrice and Iris for girls. Richard remained on my shortlist until I had DS1, who ended up with another name beginning with R. I still don't dislike any of those girls' names although they probably wouldn't have been my final choices.

Kittykatmacbill · 22/10/2017 21:07

Afra and boys Luke, Milo and James.

Painfully 90s names...

SuperBeagle · 22/10/2017 21:40

I loved the name Eamon when I was a child. No idea why, and it's not to my taste at all now.

I've always loved Chloe for a girl, and would've used it if it wasn't so obscenely popular (it's been in the top ten where I live for 15 years).

Shockers · 22/10/2017 21:42

Lucinda.

I think I rather liked Jason as a boy's name, but I was quite fixated on the name Lucinda.

PinkFlamingo888 · 22/10/2017 21:43

I was having identical twins Dylan and Nico, then another boy Tyler, then I’d have Sophia followed by Rio then there would be Lily and finally Matthew. I knew all of their dates of birth and exactly how old I’d be when I had them. I was supposed to have had them all by about 22 though so I’m a bit behind 😂

senzaparole03 · 22/10/2017 21:44

Since I was 12 I wanted to name my daughter Saidbh (irish name, pronounced sigh-v).

I've resigned to the fact that my DP just cannot get his head around it, so I'm letting it go.

Still a bit sad about it!

C0untDucku1a · 22/10/2017 21:48

Erin Ellen and Caleb Thomas.

The middle names are still what i used in my 30s!

C0untDucku1a · 22/10/2017 21:49

My 7 yr old daughter is obsessed with the name emily.

Mallowmarshmallow · 22/10/2017 21:53

Pearlintude....named after my mum’s plenitude face cream.....! Hmm

ElfEars · 22/10/2017 21:56

Jasmine (Aladdin) and Jason. I have no idea where Jason came from.

MissCherryCakeyBun · 22/10/2017 21:59

Saxony
Josephine
Angela

Theodore
Alexander
Richard
Jonathan

I wanted lots of babies but in the end I only had one ( and feel so lucky to have her)

She is Joanne ( Jo so I guess the same shortening as Josephine 🙂)

I’m guessing the age you are now changes the names you will have chosen....I’m 49

LilyPondFrog · 22/10/2017 22:01

Rupert and Beatrice

May50 · 22/10/2017 22:03

Shannon, Chelsea, Jasmine, Amber and my favourite Tia-Maria !

DryIce · 22/10/2017 22:03

Twin girls named Dawn and Dusk.

Dawn, of course, would be very fair and Dusk was to have raven black hair (I also read Anne of Green Gables a lot...)

Sometimes I would worry that I would name them the wrong way around as infants and now terrible that would be

TurquoiseSongbird · 22/10/2017 22:04

I wanted Kai for a boy, after the little boy in The Snow Queen. I remember reading about his long frozen eyelashes and being captivated by this image Grin

I wanted Felicity for a girl, from Malory Towers, St Clare’s or something Enid Blyton. I had such a romantic image of this glamorous girl and thought that one day I must have my own! 😂

For myself, in a crisis only known to teenagers in their most awkward phase, I wanted to be called...Spider..... Confused Yes, I know.... thankfully I stuck with what my mumma gave me!

LeonoraFlorence · 22/10/2017 22:04

I wanted four DDs:
Beatrice
Primrose
Florence
Clementine

I have 5 DDs and some of those names are included between first and middle names!

dontbesillyhenry · 22/10/2017 22:08

Girls
Patrice Alicia
Gloria (?)
Destiny Rai
Justine

Boys

Nico Star
Trey Junior
Fabian

I am not a chav. I was just confused

ShangriLaLaLa · 22/10/2017 22:10

I wanted to have a girl called Jordan and my best friend was going to have a girl called Jordannah. Eons before Katie Price was a celeb. Neither of us went with it, thankfully.

ineedamoreadultieradult · 22/10/2017 22:11

I wanted a bit called Ryder and a girl called Veda.