The names we used to love!

[mummymonica]

Hi all,

Thought this would be quite a fun thread to do as I think we have all had those names we have ADORED in the past and we look back now and think god no!

I made a list of baby names when I was 13 and on that list was Maygen for a girl😂 (literally pronounced may-gen) and Tina (nothing wrong with the name Tina just can't imagine a baby being named it!)

What are your WHY DID I LIKE THAT names?

When I was about 14 I LOVED Riley for a girl and also Kyla 🤨
Oscar was number one for a boy for years and also Benjamin, but I went off them both completely!
My current choices couldn’t be anymore different 😂

Della

Fluer

Faye too!

In the early 80's when we played mums and dads my kids were called Monica and Veronica

My daughter was going to be Jeniffer and my son Scott

My dolls were Moon and Star and Lulu and Amy!

I loved the names Sean (after a boy at school I’d had a crush on who sadly died! 😳) and Kirsty!

I also liked Phoebe, but my stepdaughter has that name so I could never use it, and now would never suggest it! 😬

I had Francesca, Maxine and Savannah on my list for girls. Not awful but wouldn't be my first choice now!

When i was young I like Mckenzie and Lexi for a girl 😂 and when pregnant with DD if she was a boy she was going to be called Jayden, so glad she was a girl as I hate it now!

I wanted to be renamed Angela!

Pagan ( Lace )
Fallon ( dynasty )
Lucia
Charlie ( top gun )
Most of my friends were Irish and I loved the boys names - Red, Fergus , Hugh , Patrick ,

My little brother was going to have triplets named Cool, Hip and Trendy 😂

In the early 80s when I was in my teens, my children were going to be:

Patsy Alice
Portia Scarlett
Henry Theodore
Joshua Harvey

None of which would be remarkable today!

When I was a child I wanted to be called Bridget🤔
When I was a teen I wanted a girl called Isla-Rae and a boy called Toby.
I seriously dislike the girls name now, although I do still love Tobias-Toby not so much.

I always wanted a DD called Claudia after one of the characters in Babysitters Club

Oh and Octavia (thought it was v posh) from the Jilly Cooper novel

I wanted a daughter called Cybele ...

My future ds (from my child self in mid/late 70’s) was destined to be Paul.

Shortly after when I fell out of love with the name Paul he was to be Jon (Jonathan)

I had three dses and none was a Paul or Jonathan. There’s a surprise.

When I was in early teens I went through a stage of wanting four girls all with names beginning with P (Charmed fan). Only two I can remember were Piper and Paxton. I still quite like time actually but wouldn't use them!

Also loved Thalia and used to doodle it in notebooks and now that's quite popular (in mumsnet terms!).

I always wanted a daughter called Cally (from Grange Hill).

When I was pregnant with DD, I had my heart set on calling her Mackenzie. I was a teen mum, don't judge . Thankfully my late father talked me out of it!

I was going to have a son called Dante.

I convinced myself I was only going to have girls (which has happened) so I never thought of boys names.

As a teen back in the early 2000s I always wanted a daughter called Paige (I still like it now, and I have convinced DH it will be DD3 middle name).

Ashlee (girl) was another one I love, because it was my much older cousin's name who I idolised.

I was adamant that my first child was going to be called Chance regardless of sex. In fact, I wanted to be called Chance and was most put out when my parents refused to call me it.

I also liked the name Levi.

My girls would have been named:
Alannah
Sorrel
Robyn
Sasha
Cassiopeia (Cassie for short- natch)
Andrea (nickname Andi with a heart above the i)

My boys' names, fuelled by adolescent hormones, would have been:
River
Keanu
Phoenix
Corey

It's a shame i didn't remember any of these for the shortlist when naming my real DC

About 10 years ago I loved Amelia and Noah

My best friend aged 15 wanted to name a future son Chad-Corey-Dylan!