What were your dream names for your kids when you were growing up?

When I was small, I wanted 8 children but never once thought of their names!

Not my maybe children’s names, but definitely my horses…

I never imagined myself with children.

I desperately wanted to call my children Alex and Clare. DH didn’t like Alex and my MIL said Clare wasn’t an option. I understood why after I heard someone on a Liverpool bus referring to a girl with fur ‘ur

My elder two children - a boy and a girl - are called by the names I had chosen when I was still at Primary School. My second son is called by a name OH liked.

I wanted 10 little girls and intended to name them after flowers - Daisy, Lily, Poppy etc.
I actually have 5 daughters but none of them are named after flowers.

Didn’t think of children’s names or children until married

I wanted to call a girl Louise, but I never had a girl. I only had boys and did not have names chosen for boys.

I never wanted children.

Alice. I never intended to have more than two children but a third child would have been called Alice and I sometimes wonder what she would have been like. Of course there was the possibility that that third child would have been a boy which would have complicated things.

My friend by the time she was 11 had her future baby's name chosen and when she was 25 and pregnant was very excited to finally name her daughter the dream name. Her meanie sister, pregnant also, knew this and gave birth to her baby two months before her and named her baby the sister's dream name. I was horrified by this.

Erin for a girl (from The Waltons). Rhys for a boy (no idea why, I just loved it). I used neither.

The thought of having children when I was growing up never crossed my mind 🤦🏼‍♀️

The Apostles. We had daughters.

No I didn't think I would have children, but I liked the names Tamsin (out of one of my pony books) and Malcolm.

petra

The thought of having children when I was growing up never crossed my mind 🤦🏼‍♀️

Me neither.
I never thought of names until I was pregnant.

However, I would have changed my own name if I could!

valdali

No I didn't think I would have children, but I liked the names Tamsin (out of one of my pony books) and Malcolm.

Wish for a Pony by Monica Edwards? 🐎

I did, and do, too (not Malcolm).

I wasn’t going to have a husband, children or a mortgage!

My dil however fell in love with a name in a book when she was 12 and that’s now my GD. It’s very unusual and I’d never heard of it

My late daughter was named Tamzin after the girl in Wish For a Pony. 😔

When I was about twelve I dreamed that I would have twins called Gareth and Lindy. I have no idea where it came from or why I remember it because it never happened. 🤔

I wanted Andromeda if I had a girl, luckily I had two boys.

Never gave it a thought but hoped their surname would be Harrison since I was going to marry George Harrison.

I used to know a family where the parents hoped for a boy and had boys named picked out, the first was a girl and the chosen name had been Joseph so she became Josephine.
This happened four more times, with a boys name chosen and a girl being named the feminine version, think Edwin , Edwina, I won’t use the names as it may identify.
The last pregnancy just a girls name was chosen and it was another girl.
They were a lovely happy family.

Growing up I always said I did not want children so names were never thought of. When I had my DD I couldn't think of a name so gave her my name, well she did look like me.
Two years later I had DS and I chose three names for him, DH registered the birth, reversed the first two names and dropped the third one. He thought they sounded pretentious and thought he would be bullied at school.

When I was a child I imagined that if I had a girl - never thought of having a boy - she would be called Belinda. I had a friend called this whose name was shortened to Belle and I was very jealous of her name.