When you were growing up, what did you imagine your DC would be called?

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And have you ended up using any of those names?

Benjamin and Claudia

My son was never going to be Benjamin

My daughter was nearly Claudia

If I had another daughter she would be Claudia

I loved Cordelia too. I blame Angel.

Mine was Catherine or Charlotte for a girl and Henry for a boy.

neither are called that both have obscure family name and the only one they know and both of them love their names

Daniel and Melanie 😆

Never even close to naming my daughter Melanie. I do still think they are nice names though.

Cicely, Havannah and Remé (pronounced like the booze).

In reality I have boys with traditional Scottish names!

As a little girl, I always imagined having a DS called Michael.

I have a DS called Michael!

I also forgot Tara... Do you remember when you changed your name for a game, I was always called Tara, I thought it was so glamorous and sophisticated. That was before I came up with the other ones!! 😂😂😂 I still didn't use it!

Keeley, Kylie and Kayleigh

Dd is not called any of theses.

As a teenager I imagined myself with three children called Richard, Charlotte and Tamsin. Many years later I had two boys. Richard was on our shortlist for DS1 but didn't quite make it to the final cut, but his name does begin with R so then we didn't want to use another R for DS2. I think DH would have considered Charlotte for a girl but not Tamsin. I still quite like all three names.

As a teenager I wanted a daughter called April (no idea why).
My married name is May so it would have been cruel I think!

I’ve always wanted to either be called Tara or have a daughter called it. If we ever manage to have kids it’s still on the list.

Elizaveta for a girl - thank you Chalet School books! I chose a more standard girls' name when I had DD. Still from the CS books though!

Peregrine or animism for a boy. I read too many Cadfael books, I think.

I wanted to name my dds
amber
jade
charm
summer
emerald
hope
rainbow
rachel
megan

didnt think about boys as I wasn’t having a son

life kicked me up the arse-I had a girl (I didn’t name her any of the above names) 4 boys and a another girl (again,not named any of the above)

Tiffany. DD is not a Tiffany!

Cassius Aeson and Noah - no boys but neither were contenders

Mary-Kate, Alexandra and Matilda - again none considered, although i quite like Alexandra still

Gwendolyn, Lorelei, and Zachary. Didn't have any girls and considered Zachary for both boys, but went with alternatives. Didn't want my son to be called "Zach" or "Zak". I wanted "Zachary", and it was unrealistic.

Gwendolyn is a brilliant name! It was never a name I wanted when I was younger but it's what we called DD

Eleanor, Stephanie and Joseph.

I liked Pepper or Posie for a girl - they are the most memorable. I didn’t imagine having boys.

obviously I had a boy!

Tina for a girl and Jordan for a boy.
I thought Tina was such a cool name 😂 2 ds now, definitely no Jordans and can't say Tina would haven been up there for a girl either 😂

Growing up and into my twenties I was so sure that my kids would be named the names i'd dreamed about (Demetria, Isabella and Hunter) that it never occurred to me that my DH would not only object but outright veto my name choices!

The names we ended up on were debated and compromised and while I am disappointed I don't have a lil Demetria running around, I am happy that my DH helped choose and therefore felt closer and more bonded with each DC while they were baking in the oven.

His choice for a boy was Wolfgang and I noped that one right away so I wasn't the only one compromising. 🙄

My girl her name but I always wanted a boy called West. I think it was in a book I read. 3 boys but no West. In my head I had named 6 girls and I'd actually still use them all now.

I always liked the name Wendy, Tia, August & Woody growing up😆

Thankfully, my taste in names changed!

I was always going to have a son called Aslak. I did seriously consider it for DS but in the end decided he just didn't look like an Aslak and it was a bit weird to use a Lapland name when we don't live there.

Crystal.

Which I quickly realised as an adult, is a chavvy dog's name so no, we didn't use it.