childhood names.

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

As I said in my last post, I grew up with an extremely common name with at least 5 other girls with the same name in my grade.Starting around the age of five or six I started coming up with names I wanted to change mine to;


Five years old;

Samantha ( I can't remember where this came from)
Nancy (yes Nancy drew)
Deva (like devil)

Thirteen years old;

Wendell
Eddward

at thirteen I also wanted to have twin boys and name them;

Joel Darren
Jose Warren

Current favorites;
Julian Davis
Penelope Rose.

What names did you like when you were a kid?

Comments

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

When I was about 5, I wanted to change my name to Jasmine because of the movie Aladdin. When I was 14, I wanted to change it to Tallulah (like in the book Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood). And then when I was 15, I used to use the name Jules in my online diary because I was paranoid about people finding out who I was.

My current favorites are Eliza Adrienne and Julia Margaret for girls and Samuel Michael and Benjamin Atticus for boys.

As you can tell, my taste in names has changed quite a bit since I was 5 ;).

[annarama.livejournal.com]

for the most part, i was pretty happy with my name, but i always had favorite names for someday when i had a baby girl!

grade school: Andrea (pronounced on-dray-uh)

junior high: Kaylee and Haley

high school: Luna

current favorites: Kia and Thursday

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I knew an Andrea (pronounced On-dray-uh) who was so excited that I knew how to pronounce her name.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

As a little kid ...
Boys = Percy, Thomas, Timothy
Girls = Annabel, Lauren, Samantha
My favourite doll's name changed a million times, but for the longest time she was Jessica Paris. Her 'siblings' were Louis & Coralie.

Then when I was 14-ish ...
Boys = Felix, Robin, Sterling
Girls = Ruby, Vada, Stevie
At that age I'd decided I was going to be famous, so had to use weird names because that's what celebs did.

My namelist from age 16-ish was hardcore hippy, with a bit of obscure mythological thrown in. I was into the whole two middle name thing too. So a bit embarassing really, lol.

Top 3 today ...
Boys = August, Finn*, Lennon
Girls = Esme, Gaia, Meredith
(*probably as a nn for Finnegan or Finlay, haven't decided)

Anyway I still love Ruby, but the popularity bugs me. Thomas & Coralie are sweet too. There are some hippyish names on my current list, but I've toned it down and would pair them with mainstream mns.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

I love Finnegan. Esme and Meredith are high on my list.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Good to know I'm not the only one :)

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

My mum told me she nearly called me Guinevere, so I wanted to be called that when I was little.

[imyourrapunzel.livejournal.com]

When I was really little I loved the name Sharla, I don't know how I came up with it, but I would use it whenever I played and I gave the name to one of my hamsters.

Elementary school: Maura, Moira, Arianna, Audrianna, Love, Daffodil (Daffy) lol, Theodore, Brennan, Warren, Bradley, Lawrence

Middle school: Calista, Isobel(a), Ginger, Athena, Madeline, Roxanne, Logan, Adam, Bailey (for a boy), Tyler

High school: Eleanor, Catherine, Sylvia, Audrey, Athena, Rosalie, Beau, Clark, Logan, Owen, Jude

Currently: Athena, Helena, Lulu, June, Faye, Clark, Jonas, Lyle, Harper

I've been making lists of names for a long time, it's always funny to go back and see some of the stuff I had on there.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I've never liked my name (Stephanie), but I've never been able to think of one to suit me better.

When I was little, though, my favorite doll was a Cabbage Patch Kid whose certificate identified her as Carrie or something. I named her Victoria, and I still love that name.

[starrkissed.livejournal.com]

My name is Brittany and when I was really little [5ish?] I always wanted everyone to call me Mickey! [as in Mickey Mouse] haha.
I was a very big tomboy, so as I got older, I wanted my name to be Branden.

[starrkissed.livejournal.com]

I should probably note that I grew out of those stages and am now very much a girl and I love my name, even though it's so common.

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

same name different spelling,common as it is, nothing else seems good enough.

[starrkissed.livejournal.com]

uhh.. what?
nothing else seems good enough?

and actually, brittany is more popular than the other spellings. at least in arizona/florida/illinois, where i grew up. :)

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

hehe sorry, nothing seems good enough to replace it. I'm glad a got the least common spelling but its still annoying when there are five other Britni's, Britney's, and Brittany's.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_toasterhead/]

i wanted to be named Elizabeth after Elizabeth in Sweet Valley Kids. :)

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

I used to read those books just because they have the same family name as I do. I was really into them.
My aunt is a substitute teacher and once had a 6th grade girl come up and ask her if she was related to Jessica and Elizabeth. I feel like that's a little old not to understand what "fiction" is.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

haha oh dear.. i agree

[xo-inthered.livejournal.com]

When I was about three, I insisted that everyone in my family called me Lu Lu. Unfortunately, it stuck, but has been shortened to Lu.
I also named my imaginary friend Sitate (Sit-ah-tea).
I think that sums up my childhood taste in names very well.
Now, I love Evelyn Charlotte and Noah William.

[starskye.livejournal.com]

When I was a little girl my favorite name was Amy. I named all my baby dolls Amy Lynn, Amy Marie, Amy Lee, Amy Elizabeth, I actually used to complain to my parents and ask them why they didn't name me Amy.
My middle name is Rae, and I used to hate that, too. When I got older I started to like the name Rae, so then I started to think that if I had a daughter her name would be Amy Rae.

I still like the name Amy, but probably would not use it today. It was my top name for girls until I became an adult.

I also briefly took a liking to Adrianna because I was in a cemetary and I saw a baby's headstone with this on it.

I did consider Victoria Amy Briefly, but I like Victoria Jade much better.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of my sister. She loved the name Rose when she was little, and named all of her stuffed animals and such that. :p

[soulsurvival.livejournal.com]

I had a baby Amy when i was a kid! A doll i would drag around, even though my name is Amy too.. I also wanted to be named Bethany for awhile.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I used to like Charlotte after I read Charlotte's web when I was 7. Then I decided, why not make it even frillier? I combined it with Priscilla, and came up with the name Shacilla (can't remember how I spelled it).

So glad that I don't have that taste in names anymore! It's like the ruffled pink lacy skirt of names.

[babyjess8.livejournal.com]

I hated my name when I was litte... Jessica was waaaay too popular! I wanted to be called Kirsten (like my best friend) or Jacinta.

As for names I liked:
Primary School: Brooke, Tiffany, Brittany, Zoey, Tom, Caspar
High School: Zachary, Isaac (I was a Hanson fan!), Joshua, Pacey (also a Dawson's creek fan), Hunter, Taejohn, Parker, Lily, Grace,
Now: Kenny, Asher, Lucas, Ruben, Hamish, Evan, Isabella, Ruby, Alexis/Alexa, Milliana, Georgia

[ghost-dance.livejournal.com]

When I was really little I liked Victoria, Courtney and Nicole for girls. For boys I liked Seth and Slade.

I became a name nerd when I was around 12-13, so at that time my favorite names were Madeleine and Christian. But I also liked Kennedy & McKenna (though I knew they were bad and didn't ever plan on naming actual children these names).

[ghost-dance.livejournal.com]

oh yeah and when I was really REALLY little, I wanted to change my name from Gabriella to Jane. I think it's because of Melrose Place.

[zodiacstargazer.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to be named something other than Esther ever since kindergarten. Back then, that was my English name--you know, two names, two cultures, that kind of thing--and it was EXTREMELY popular. I hated it, I hated being called Easter, and I just wanted to change it. My mum hated it too so she changed it to my Korean name ;) I like it wayyyy better than Esther.

I've always wanted to be named Spica, though. Odd, because it's a star in the constellation of Virgo, not Gemini [and that's what I am. ;)] Plus, I'm called that a LOT---it's my online pseudonym and it stuck in rl. Unless you were in my Spanish class, in which case I was Luna. I loved that name too. 8D

[supermonkeyfics.livejournal.com]

Kimberly - I was a huge Power Rangers fan
Katherine - again, Power Rangers, but I also liked it in general for a long time
Stephanie - Full House was one of the foundations of my childhood
Josephine - I had a Little Women phase when I was 9 or 10
April, May, June - my friends and I used to pretend we were sisters w/ these names

Billy - Power Rangers yet again. I don't remember it being a particularly favorite name (actually, I don't remember having any favorite boy names as a kid), but I did use it for my imaginary cousin. (Yes, cousin - I was an only child, & all my real cousins lived far away, so I did strange things like make up imaginary relatives instead of imaginary friends.)

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

hehe I liked Kimberly, Trini, Tommy, and Billy...

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

When I was veeery little I liked Jennifer, for some reason.
When I became older (around 12) I liked Fleur, Julia, Thomas, stuff like that =)

[flatlined.livejournal.com]

I always really hated my name (Michelle)

So I made a list

Sara
Jane
Anna

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

I despise my birth name and always have. It's changed now, but when I was small I wanted to be Rosemary, after discovering Blyton I went through a phase of wanting to be Jock (glad my parents didn't let me change it to that), and went through Lydia and Jasmine and the like before deciding I liked Maggie.

[scouty.livejournal.com]

O__O

when I was little I wanted to have twin girls and name them jessica and jennifer

I would use them anymore ^^

[itcouldbelove.livejournal.com]

When I was a little, about six or so, I said to my mom, "When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Starlite." Like the horse in Rainbow Brite. I was a pretty sweet little kid, I should probably change my name to Starlite, d'ya think?