Which name would you have picked for yourself as a teen?

[KimHwn]

Was just thinking about how much our tastes change as we grow, and as fashions change.

When I was in my mid-teens, I was desperate for a posh English name. I probably would have chosen Constance for myself, which would have been ridiculous- I am neither posh nor English. When I was in primary school and playing house, I always called myself Nicole. Again, I am not a Nicole at all.

What would you have picked for yourself as a teen?

I always thought about changing my name. I've never met anyone else with my name! I got mercilessly mocked about it at school by pupils and teachers.
It was the 80s/early 90s and everyone was called Emma, Laura, Rebecca, Samantha or Sarah!

I always liked Kelly (probably because I thought Kelly Kapowski from Saved By The Bell was the most beautiful girl ever).
Or Melanie. No idea why.

Phoebe or chloe.

Ive never liked my name. It mainly used on women a decade or more older than me, dated but not "cool dated". But its not bad enough to change, and I dont know what id change it to!

Oh, goodness, I was just the same. Stocky wannabe waif😄

Abigail. I have no idea why. There was no famous person or character with that name in the late 1980s afaik.

I still like it, decades later.

I’d have been an Ashleigh or an Evangeline, wouldn’t want to be either now particularly 😂

Oh god something hideous, I was a terrible little goth.

Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way comes to mind. Iykyk

I hated my name (long, usually misspelt, often mispronounced, judged as a 'naughty' name, and people tended to assume that I was male). People usually told me that I didn't suit it, and should have been called something like Rachel or Elizabeth instead!

I wanted something that was short, easy to spell, and indicated that I was definitely female (like Ella, Hannah, Anna, Leah, etc). Needless to say, I changed it to something along similar lines when I could!

Probably something like Tabitha after the daughter on Bewitched. I also liked Maren after a girl on my German exchange who seemed impossibly euro-cool.

Catriona (v important pronounced the same as, but definitely not spelled, Katrina)

I liked the name Angela when little Such a mum name! I also liked Jessica as I got older.

Would never have used either of these for my kids but as a child I loved them.

When I was a teenager I desperately wanted to be called Scarlett or Ruby. Neither of them were even remotely fashionable at the time, but I was very into 1930s black annd white cinema and gothic horror, and both those names felt like they would fit nicely into either of those worlds.

Aeronwy.
At 13,I was in my moody Dylan Thomas phase and this is his daughter's name.
Got over it by age 16 when I read the Forsyte Saga and wanted to be Irene.

I wanted to be either Sara(h) or Clare. I think from reading children's literature, 'A Little Princess' and 'Charlotte Sometimes', which I loved. Wasn't fussed about Charlotte itself though, which is obviously much more popular now. Clare was the girl from the past that Charlotte exchanged places with, in the time slip story.

I also just liked the sound of both names, and actually there were lots of Sarahs and Clares at school with me.

Natasha

I liked the Russian-ness I think. I don't like it now!

Jessica or Elizabeth. I basically wanted to live inside the Sweet Valley High books.

Lily or phoebe... I actually wish I'd have changed my name , my name doesn't suit me at all but it's too late now I'm in my 30s people with think im having a crisis 🤣

Cleo is a lovely name!

I've always had a hankering to be called Linda. It was very popular when I was young.

Nobody can understand my name or spell it so when I'm somewhere like Starbucks I say I'm Linda.

David

i am female
it was a long time ago

I wanted to be called Ashley, I thought it was a cool American name for a girl 😁

Usually Charlotte, but I also liked the name Adelaide and would have liked to be called it if it wasn't quite so unusual at the time.

Silver.

(Also a pretentious wannabe willowy and mysterious goth 😆).

Clara! Lucy or Felicity. Still like those names. My DD is Felicity 😃.

Christina - I thought it was the most beautiful and glamorous sounding name