If you could rename them what would you call your older children?

[HPandthelastwish]

DD is a teen now, she has a long feminine _belle name which she doesn't feel suits her. She's a rugby playing, academic, and rocks the Dark academia look.

She'd like to be an Iseult / Isolde instead

In hindsight I think Harriet would suit her well.

I like my own name and wouldn't change it it is a classic no-nonsense name.

Now that you know your older children what name would suit them and why?

We gave them pretty classic names without any belles or frippery. They work well.

I have a super posh, slightly frilly, very unusual name. I grew into it and it was never a child's name, but it would have been so much easier to have been a Susan, Angela or Caroline.

Felicity or maybe Josephine. I wanted Rosemarie but her dad didn't. I still like that too.

I chose a really rare old name which was unheard of 30 years ago. It's now in the top 5.

I love my children’s names still, but maybe I would be braver and choose the Welsh spellings / variants 😊

My daughter is still a toddler but she has a European version of a classic name, that is somehow both frilly and strong, just like she is. We waited until the last day we legally could to register her name as we wanted to get a sense of her personality first.

I'd maybe give DS a softer, less masculine sounding name ie ending in a vowel sound rather than a consonant sound.

I find boys names incredibly difficult.

I quite liked Scarlett but went with an Irish name. Dd6 has since found out my second choice and actually prefers it. Typical 😆

I'm a Susan and I'll swap you! I'd LOVE a super-posh frilly name please! Never felt like Susan or Sue and only marginally happier with Susie. 😂

I loved the name Ziggy for DS1 but wasn’t brave enough to use it because I thought he’d have to be a bit quirky to carry it off.
Turns out it would really suit him.

Happy with names we chose.

Love all my children's names still, but I wish I'd changed my own. I hate it. Proper 80s fashionable name.

I wish I’d given my middle son a more unusual name. My eldests name was pretty unusual when he was born 11 years ago but is now top 10. He’s the only one in his year group with that name although there are a few in the younger age classes. My middle son has a name that’s Jewish heritage (we aren’t Jewish) and is also a character in South Park if you can figure it out. We chose it because it means laughter but there are A LOT of boys with the same name as him at school. My daughter has a really unusual name but I absolutely adore it. It’s generally not liked on mumsnet but I think it suits her perfectly.

I have three boys so had used up my favourites on the first two and gave DS3 a rather boring but nice name. He's at an art school with a cool rep studying fashion and is a strong character, he would have suited one of the more out there names that we talked ourselves out of.

My youngest has a nice enough name but there wasn't one that I loved at the time. Now there are loads of them and it annoys me a bit.

I still like my DC names. However I really liked Madeleine but we (especially DH) were put off by the McCann association … years later that seems less relevant and it would have suited DC2 very well.

DC1 doesn’t like her middle name but who can predict what a child will like 🤷‍♀️

@PippetyPoppetyPie your DS is called Mr Hanky?!

I think my DDs really suit the names that I chose. They both like their names & I couldn’t imagine them being called anything else … I really struggled having to name children that I didn’t know 😂 it felt like such a huge and weird responsibility. My benchmark was would they be okay if they were to become high court judges? I didn’t find out their gender before they were born so had a list of names that I liked. When they were born I ran through them with them - c sections & morphine - and tried to gauge their reactions 😂 Being catholic they were able to choose their own ‘confirmation names’ as 13 year olds. They have to be saints names but they chose Sexburga and Blaise 😂

My adult boys have traditional names that suit them. I love my name, it’s French and beautiful and my dad chose it and I loved my dad.

I like my youngest two kids names but not too keen on the older two. First was a name dh really liked and I , in my exhaustion and delirious happiness agreed.

I would pick Kayla for eldest dd and Olly for eldest ds if i could choose again.

DS has absolutely made his name his own, he loves it. It's a common Irish name (no Oisins or Tadghs) as he has strong Irish heritage which he also loves.

It’s funny isn’t it how some children really suit their names. I know a Jaxson which I consider to be a cool name (I don’t mean I like it just that it’s obvious to me that it’s an name that belongs to someone cool) and the child with it is fairly bland. In my mind he should be a James or a Thomas. Jaxson should be out skateboarding or something.

We never got to name ours the first time around as we adopted and they "came" with names. I was not keen on the eldest's name although now I cant imagine her being called anything else. The youngest's I like but probably wouldnt have chosen.

I like girls names that can be shortened to boys names if that makes sense. So Charlotte, shortened to Charlie, Danielle shortened to Danny. That sort of think.

We nearly called our eldest Orson but when I was pregnant a band called Orson were quite up and coming and we weren't keen on them! We settled on Oscar (which is now a very common name) and sometimes I still think Orson would have been better. The band seems to have vanished years ago.

Our daughter has a frilly bella name which she currently likes and i hope it stays that way. She does say she would like to be called Olive best of all, which to me is an old lady name!

My friend chose Blaise. She said it was the patron saint of sore throats.
I have no idea if that is true but it made me chuckle when I read your kids' choices

Yes apparently he is. There’s a St Blaise blessing of the throats ceremony once a year in the Catholic Church. We’re very lapsed though and rely mostly on paracetamol and strepsils 😂

Similar thing here. I loved Zeke but would have used Ezekiel which was just too out there… but he’d have totally suited it!

Baby ds should have been Teddy- he is glad he isn’t but I think he’d have suited it soooo much.