Naming style and age

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How did your naming style differ as you got older?

For me I used to love “hippy” names when I was younger like “Summer”, “Skye”, “Serenity”

Then I loved frilly girl names like Gabriella, Liliana, Arabella

And then recently I’ve become a bit boring and love classic names like Catherine, Florence, Beatrice

(I am now in my mid-30s by the way)

How about you?

Ive always had quite a mixed bag, really. However when I little I was adamant that I was going to have 2 kids called Maurice and Jackie
Interesting thread.

When I was younger I liked unusual names / ones from mythology etc, favourites were Ariadne, Calliope, Marisol and Zacchaeus. Now I like classic names and my DS has a very timeless, traditional name. I’m late 20s.

I'd agree with this. I remember having a heated discussion with a friend as a teenager as they said that their imaginary boys name was Oscar, and were most affronted when I mocked it. Oscar then went on our shortlist for DS2 (and if we had another boy we're done with babies it would be a serious contender).

All that said, teenage me knew NOTHING about naming babies. My imaginary girl in that conversation was Paige-Amanda. I despair.

I loved double barralled names. I thought they were wonderful and couldn't understand why my friend Emma hated the long Emma-Louise use of her name. I was also a fan of hippy, floaty names for girls.

My two boys have classic, timeless names that never date.

I thought I'd give my DDs frilly names but despite being young they got shortish, classic names.

I would guess that Tyler-Jay and Lilly-Mae's mum to be a teenager
and Jack and Harriet's mother to be in her 40s.

Age 33 and pregnant with #1. Shortlisted names are nothing like teenage me imagined. Back then I loved Mercedes for a girl and Keelan for a boy

I guess whenever you have a child and whatever you name them you'll always love it as its theirs?

I've always like hippyish girls names and classic boys names, so I've not changed much there really. My daughter has a very classic first name with hippyish middles so I compromised.
Though as a teenager I did want to call any son I had Bradley after Bradley in S Club 7. I didn't even like sclub7! Thank god I grew out of that!

As a teenager (in the 80s) I liked names like Arnold and Howard and Duncan.

I've always liked frilly girls names. Maybe because I went to school with girls mostly called Debbie, Lynda, Tracy Emma and Sarah. Genevieve, Cordelia, Tatiana, Anastasia just seem so much more exciting!

My imaginary kids were going to be called Roman and Stella.

They are not.

I used to love Lee, Luke, Liam for a boy... I thought they were ‘cool boy’ names

My imaginary boy was going to be called Patrick. Still a bit annoyed I didn’t use it!

@Ihatemyseleffordoingthis Stella is really nice I think.

Op mine is exactly the same as you!

My children have the names I decided on when I was 14. When I was 12 I thought Crystal was a nice name though 😂

I loved the kind of names that characters had in US kids TV shows in the late 90s. I was convinced my kids would be called things like Lacey, Zak, Bailey and Cody.

My imaginary daughter was also called Stella! This didn’t even make in into the shortlist when I was actually pregnant!