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!

As I child, I wanted to be called Shirley!

As an adult, maybe Jessica or Madeleine.

I wanted so badly to be Alison or Jessica when I was a child.

Nowadays, I love my name, although it's not one I'd "choose." If I absolutely had to, it'd be something like Eleanor or Harriet.

I wanted to be called Rachel.

I wanted to be a Samantha or a Daisy.

Now I’d love something classic like Anna or Emma.

Sebastian or Gabriel. 🙄😂

As opposed to Vanessa which was my parents second choice girl's name. No 1 boy's was ... Gary. 😂

My actual name is MC classy enough- but also a popular choice among the transvestite community... 😉😂

I love my name and always have. I can’t bear it being shortened though.

Child: Diana, or Pandora

Now: something like Amaryllis, Isadora, Ursula, Sybilla, Desdemona, Calyso, Demelza, Esmeralda... (I have given DD one of those names though)

Child me - chloe anderson (not my name i just loved both those names.

Adult me- astrid/ blythe/candy

My name

As a child: Elizabeth Hartley Rose 😂
As an adult: Anna or Lucy.
My name is a bit shit. It was very unusual in 1970, but in the 80’s a soap character had it (not Kylie), so it had a spike and has since sunk. It’s naff and there are wanky variations on spelling it. I have the original spelling. I don’t think it’s very me.

I note a lot of us hanker after Anna! Interesting.

I wouldn't like another name i like mine