Did you play it safe and regret it? Or did you DC have a lucky escape?

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I played safe and called my son Freddie instead of Milo. I wish I had been braver.

Although my DD was nearly a Willow which I don’t regret.

I won’t even tell you my DH’s name bids for the children!! No regrets they had more common names!!

Milo for me will always be that vile pseudo-chocolate. Freddie is great!

My kids definitely had a lucky escape!

Milo is nice but Freddie is too.

You’re right about Willow!

With my first her dad was really into the series Dexter and wanted the name if it was a boy. Aside from the fact I wasn’t naming my baby after a serial killer, ginger hair, buck teeth and needing glasses runs in my family and I wasn’t risking having a kid that looked like Dexter from dexters laboratory. 😂

I called my son Gabriel. People thought I was pretentious (I can be!)

16 years in……. There’s loads around and I’m glad I called him his beautiful name ❤️❤️❤️

Chose a very solid traditional name for my daughter - I do like it still but sometimes wish we'd been a bit more adventurous. Chose the same kind of name for my son and still absolutely love it!

Please do!!!

Very elegant and beautiful name.

Ha! We chose three unusual names (all well outside the top 1000). No regrets from my side, kids still too young to have expressed any opinion on them!

Mine, now 25 and 23, have names which are now in the top 10, but at the time were not that common. Still glad we chose them.

We nearly had a Dexter too. But we got a daughter not a son. She is appalled that we would have even contemplated the name. I still kind of like it.

She likes the name we did give her.

I deliberately chose names for my 3 that weren’t in the Top 100 the years they were born. They have uncommon but not “yoonique”, wacky names.
My name was in the Top 10 the year I was born (same for my Dsis), and I was one of 5 children with the same first name in my reception class at school 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 Forever known as “Firstname + Surname Initial” 🙄😂

I have 3 very traditional names - zero regrets. We live outside the UK so no kids have their names, James, Luke and Daisy. Easy to pronounce in another language and works for kids and adults imo.

DH wanted Tobermorey. It's a lovely name but sadly it rhymes completely with our surname so would sound ridiculous.

Second time around he wanted Agamemnon- again great name but we are not Greek and it's a big name to carry without the cultural background to back it up IMO.

I would have loved Tobermorey though.

We have two names that would have been in the top 20 in the 50s. That;s fine- everyone knows how to spell them and there are no others in the school with those names - aside from teachers.

Pregnant hormonal me decided that Jean-Baptiste would be the perfect name for a non-catholic child with no French heritage. Fortunately for DS, DH vetoed it. Thank Fuck. He really couldn’t have styled it out.

Lucky escape - I wanted to call my my daughter Maybelle!! Now she's just Mabel. And then with my 2nd daughter I wanted to go for Dorabella somehow lol but she's a Heidi now.

My mother nearly called us Sonia, Sandra, Kimberly and Trevor….early 70s…..

Instead she went for David, Susan, Catherine and Michelle.

Do you mean Tobermory the town on Mull? Or Tobermory the Womble?

Either way, that would have been a double mistake.

DS, husband desperately wanted Laurie - but to me that’s a girls name. Then he thought Billy, I have no idea what he was on, but I agreed on Billy for a middle name

DD2 (DC3) is Laurie, so we both got a choice

All the wombles were named after an actual place, Tomsk, Orinoco, Uncle Bulgaria etc.

The creator was way ahead of her time - wonder if that’s where the Beckhams took their inspiration?