To talk to your children now their grown up about your name choices!

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My dd is 10 years old and we were talking about names the other day and she asked if there were other names we considered. I said your dad wanted to call you Lois, but mummy really didn't like it. She said, oh I love that name so much, I wish you had!! She said she still likes her name but not as much as what she could have been called! I thought it was quite amusing and I got a 'told you it was a good name' from DJ!

Dh not dj!!

My mum wanted to give me the middle name Aurora but my dad said no. So I have no middle name, and my name is pretty generic. Think along the lines of ‘Jane Smith’. I wish my mum had got her way, I would have totally gone by Aurora because my first name is so boring!

Apparently I was going to be called Natalie right up until the last minute when my dad changed his mind and preferred Katie. I have to say I'm kind of relieved not because I dislike Natalie but mainly because I hate Nat.

Also my mum told me if she had been a boy she was going to be called Kevin 😂😂

@LakeTittyHaHa

My mum wanted to give me the middle name Aurora but my dad said no. So I have no middle name, and my name is pretty generic. Think along the lines of ‘Jane Smith’. I wish my mum had got her way, I would have totally gone by Aurora because my first name is so boring!

Oh, I love Aurora as a middle name!! I remember finding in my memory box a long list of middle names and in the end they went for Jane, which is fine, but I would have liked something a bit more different!!

@BabyDust13

Apparently I was going to be called Natalie right up until the last minute when my dad changed his mind and preferred Katie. I have to say I'm kind of relieved not because I dislike Natalie but mainly because I hate Nat.

Also my mum told me if she had been a boy she was going to be called Kevin 😂😂

That worked out well for you then. I like Natalie and Katie X

I was going to be called Charlotte until close to my due date when my mum watched a film and decided to name me after one of the actresses in it instead. I'm glad - I've always loved my name. DH was going to be called Carl until he was born and MIL decided it didn't suit him at all so she called him something totally different.

Henrietta. I'm very very VERY glad my mum changed her mind. A chubby, shy girl from the West Midlands called Henrietta really wouldn't have had a good time at my school.

My DD's think it's hilarious that if I'd been a boy I would have been called Dennis(with apologies to anyone called Dennis) .

My 7yo DD hasn’t forgiven her dad for vetoing Hermione

I was going to be Called Hermione too, but dad veto’ed it. I’m 43 so that was well before Harry P

I’m a twin and dm let slip that DS had the name she liked from childhood. Don’t know why, but that slightly irked me.

Ds2 was going to be called one name. When he was born, both dh and I gp felt he wouldn’t suit that name so swopped the first and middle name. Every so often, I imagine myself calling him by the name’s nickname, which would have sounded very 70s in retrospect.

I was Eliza until birth, then they went for Lauren, which is pronounced Law-ren.
I like both, but have spent my life correcting people's pronounciation of my name.

Where is that pronunciation from @SospanFrangipan

Apparently I was almost a Deborah - and my brother (7 at the time) wanted to call me Huckle after a Richard Scarry character 😆. I'm glad I got the name I ended up with, it's pretty common for late 70s babies but nice all the same.

I'm so surprised she likes Lois it's an awful name! Reminds me of the mum in malcolm in the middle!

Speaking of malcolm thats another terrible name 😂

I'm the opposite of you Standrewschool. I'm a twin and I have a name my mum loved since childhood while my db as a name my parents chose pretty at birth or pretty close beforehand.

We've discussed this too. Fortunately both DC like their names, especially DD. DS has a name that is very popular in the town that we moved to after his birth due to the Football manager. So DS was known by his surname at school.

I like my name but not my middle name. Apparently my DF changed his name on the way to the register office.

Ours like their names. I think children tend to grow into their names or, at least we associate the name with the person they have become. They are less keen on their middle names which are traditional family names.

@ClementineTangerine

I'm so surprised she likes Lois it's an awful name! Reminds me of the mum in malcolm in the middle!

Speaking of malcolm thats another terrible name 😂

We called her Matilda instead, which I personally prefer! Luckily dh did but not his first choice!

I would have been Ynyr if I had been a boy. It's pronounced Un-irr, but as a child I thought it was Un-ear and was grateful to be a girl!

Mam did consider Myfanwy for me but Dad said no given we're in England. Mam gave me a different Welsh name which was her first choice. She vetoed Gertrude (Dad's beloved grandmother's name).

If Mam had had to pick an English name I would have been Helen. Nice classic name, but it wouldn't have suited me. If a boy Richard, Victor or Oliver, which wasn't as popular in the late 80s as it is now.

I got the female version of my dad's name. My mum wanted a different name that I like much more.

I was almost Ruby (not keen) or Sophie (which I like). Edward if I'd been a boy.

I ended up with a fairly unusual name which I go through phases of loving or hating. It seems pretty well liked on here though.

I was nearly Sian. Instead I'm Kate. I like both, but possibly slightly prefer Kate. My older brother has a welsh name (Dad's Welsh), I have the English name (Mum's English), and younger brother a Scottish name (no links whatsoever).

When 5, dd1 asked how we'd picked her name. I told her exh had wanted Suzanne and I'd wanted Rosanna and we'd compromised.
She burst into tears and said " So I got a name that was no ones favourite."
I wasn't expecting that!

My 10 yo DS doesn't especially like or dislike his name, but can't imagine being called anything else
8yo DD got a compromise name as DH and I didn't like each other's first choices. DD says she'd rather be called my choice
Weirdly though, I much prefer the compromise name, it suits her a lot more and now I can't imagine her being called anything else