If you could have chosen your name...

[CocoLoco87]

Just for fun, if you got to choose your name when you were a child, would it differ to what you'd choose as an adult?

5 year old me: Kimberly after the pink power ranger, or Barbie , or Lightening don't ask

Adult me would choose Chloe, my favourite girls name.

My actual name is very plain and boring and lots of other MNetters agree!

Young me would have been Fabienne after a girl I went to school with who was really popular and I wanted to be like. Adult me would have been Amber. My mum originally chose this because of the colour of my hair and my dad put his foot down and said absolutely not. Amber is much nicer than my now very dated classic 80s name!

Kim, Poppy, Blanche or Sasha as a child. Lois, Fern or Faye as an adult!

As a child I’d have chosen something romantic and feminine like Juliet. As an adult I’d probably choose the exact opposite and go for a classic strong name with a masculine nickname like Joe or Charlie.

I wanted to be called Jodie, Rebecca or Eleanor as a kid
Now as an adult, I wish I was called Josephine or Penelope

I'd be either Frances nn Frankie, Georgia nn George or Maxine nn Max

When I was 4 I said I wanted to be called Rachel. Not a clue why. I'd have loved a fancy victorian name as a child, like Araminta, but as an adult I wish I'd been called Olivia (which was what I was nearly called.)

Child me wanted to be a boy. Paul.

A zillion years later I think I’d like to be called Anna or Hannah.

I was going to be Indie, and I’ve always wished my parents went through with it. I’ve got a very boring name instead

As a child I wanted to be Nicole nm Nicky

As an adult it would be Emma. My name is uncommon and I've always wanted to be one of the Lauras/ Rachels/ Rebeccas

I always wished my name was Natalie when I was little, now I think I'd choose Katherine or Kate.

I like my name - in fact I secretly prefer it to my siblings names!!

Me at 5 would call myself Emily

Me at 45 would be Carrie or Anna

Tinkerbell.

Pandora.

I wish I was called Karen. I work with many Karens. And I am envious.

Child me - Sonia or Kylie after the pop singers

Adult me - I'm happy with my name. It's a good strong name. Not too common but not so uncommon that people don't know how to pronounce it. Not too girly or cutesy but definitely a female name. It suits me and is the only decent thing my mum ever gave me in life!

Child me - Isabella or Sophie
Adult me - hard to say but probably Alexandra

As a child I always wanted to be called Ashley

( not sure where that grin came from as Ashley is a nice name )

I always wanted to have been called Laura. It was my favourite name as a child and I still like it now.

Interestingly, I found out in my 20s that I had been called Lauren for nearly a week^^ after I was born, before my mum changed her mind!

Child me was Laura ( short phase of wanting to be Annalise or Charlene).
Adult me is Anna or Alice.

As a child? My two favourite fictional heroines were both Josephine, so I’d have been happy with that.

As a younger adult .. Consuelo, Cosima, Willoughby. My life might have been so different with a properly romantic name ...

But I have a deep love for jolie laide, earthy, Laurentian sounding names: Maud, Gudrun, Ursula ...

I’m a Kirsty and I wish I was a Kirsten - I just think that that ending is a bit more classy

Failing that, Lucy 😆

I wanted to be called Aladdin as I fancied him.

I changed my name a few years ago, but not to Aladdin!

As I child I want to be called Abigail or Emma.
Now... I have no idea I think I’m happy with my name as it is.

As a child I'd have chosen Bethany or Cordelia.
As an adult I absolutely love my name and wouldn't change it.