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

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).

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!

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

The Apostles. We had daughters.

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

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

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.

I never wanted children.

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.

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

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.

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 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

I never imagined myself with children.

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

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