My sister is rearranging our room this week and I came across one of my old diaries. I was reminiscing (btw, fifth grade [name]Ashley[/name] had the worst, most awkward grammar ever, lol!), and came across a list of names I had written even back then. I didn’t even think I kept a name list, but apparently I did!
[name]Elisa[/name] [name]May[/name]
[name]Hazel[/name] [name]Anne[/name]
[name]Cassia[/name] [name]Sarah[/name]
[name]Kathleen[/name] [name]Ellen[/name]
[name]Kathryn[/name] [name]Jennifer[/name]
[name]Kristiana[/name] [name]Kate[/name]
[name]Hailee[/name] [name]Laura[/name]
[name]Abigail[/name] [name]Jane[/name]
[name]Jason[/name] [name]Samuel[/name]
[name]Jerry[/name] [name]Nathan[/name] (what?! [name]Jerry[/name] wasn’t even cool when I was a little kid, haha, I honestly don’t know where I saw the appeal in this!)
[name]Rachel[/name] [name]Elsie[/name]
[name]Susan[/name] [name]Priscilla[/name]
It’s interesting to see the names that I still love and the trends I grew out of! [name]Elisa[/name], [name]Hazel[/name], [name]Catherine[/name], [name]Samuel[/name], and [name]Rachel[/name] are still quite huge favorites of mine, and I still quite like [name]Cassia[/name] and [name]Abigail[/name]. Awkwardly enough, I don’t ever remember loving [name]Elsie[/name], [name]Susan[/name], or [name]Priscilla[/name], and I quite hate [name]Kathleen[/name] now. [name]Jason[/name] doesn’t surprise me at all, though–I still love it, and its meaning, and would probably consider it more if it weren’t so dated. [name]Abigail[/name] was my first favorite girls’ name.
Anyway, I just thought it was interesting. What names did you like when you were little?
Wow, [name]Ashley[/name] - what a great list you had for a 5th grader! I love [name]Elisa[/name] [name]May[/name], [name]Abigail[/name] [name]Jane[/name], and even [name]Jason[/name] [name]Samuel[/name].
My daughter is in 5th grade now, and she loves [name]Grace[/name] [name]Catherine[/name] and [name]Caroline[/name] [name]Anne[/name] for a girl. She likes [name]Jacob[/name] for a boy, she says.
As a kid/teen my favs started with [name]Elizabeth[/name] then [name]Althea[/name], [name]Oceana[/name]. I also liked [name]Scarlett[/name], [name]Alice[/name], [name]Elspeth[/name]
I prob wont be using any of these names in the end I do like [name]Scarlett[/name] as a middle name still, but now i have to compromise with the other half he hates the name…
Not a bad list at all for fifth grade! Although I did giggle at [name]Jerry[/name] [name]Nathan[/name]…
Fifth grade…I know I liked [name]Toby[/name] and [name]Cory[/name] for boys, lol. Probably the era of [name]Bianca[/name], [name]Suzanne[/name], and [name]Dakota[/name] for girls.
I was obsessed with [name]Tess[/name], [name]Meg[/name], [name]Scarlette[/name] and [name]Lucy[/name] when I was a kid. I named every single [name]Barbie[/name] I owned one of those names, and I don’t think i would use any of them now
Well in 5th grade (and younger) I personally wanted to be named [name]Jamie[/name]. When my friends and I would play house or vampires or the like (anything where I had to play a boy, basically) I was also [name]Tucker[/name], nn [name]Puck[/name].
I don’t remember practically ANY of the names I wanted to use, but here’s the one’s a remember.
[name]Sadie[/name] (This was my number #1 for YEARS. She had a middle name that I still can’t remember…)
[name]Declan[/name] [name]Avery[/name]
[name]Caleb[/name] [name]Atticus[/name]
I don’t remember much more, all my sons were to have “A” middle names though
[name]Natalie[/name], [name]Shae[/name], and [name]Nicole[/name] were my favorite girl names and I loved [name]Elijah[/name] and [name]Emmett[/name] for a boy
5th grade I love [name]Gideon[/name], Nikolaus, and [name]Gabriel[/name] for boys. Girls were [name]Sam[/name] (not [name]Samantha[/name]), [name]Paige[/name] and [name]Katerina[/name].
Wow, you had fantastic taste in names for such a young age. My own favourites at that age reflected my hobbies and friends I admired. My favourite name was [name]Jenny[/name] for quite some time because of a fantastic dancer in my dance class who I aspired to be like, lol
I can remember loving [name]Amelia[/name], [name]Cassandra[/name]/[name]Cassie[/name], [name]Guinevere[/name], [name]Anastasia[/name], [name]Cleo[/name] and [name]Maeve[/name]. I actually don’t dislike any of them now, and I still adore [name]Cleo[/name].
My favorites are [name]Elisa[/name] [name]May[/name] and [name]Hazel[/name] [name]Anne[/name]. [name]Cassia[/name]'s pretty.
I actually know two little boys named [name]Jason[/name]. [name]One[/name] is a junior and the other, I’m not sure if he was honoring anyone but it wasn’t dad. It’s sort of refreshing to see on babies.
haha, now that I look back on it, this list was probably inspired by a lot of loves around then, too! I had just finished reading [name]Johnny[/name] Tremain in school, which is why [name]Priscilla[/name] was probably there–I absolutely loved that book! And there’s a children’s [name]Christian[/name] radio drama that I loved (okay, still love! Guilty!) and the main characters had two sons–[name]Jeremiah[/name] “[name]Jerry[/name]” and [name]Jason[/name]. Which is probably where [name]Jerry[/name] and [name]Jason[/name] came from, haha. I always thought [name]Jerry[/name] was so cool because he was this soldier who fought in the Vietnam War, and he didn’t want to go, but he felt bound by duty. And [name]Kristiana[/name], [name]Kathryn[/name], [name]Hazel[/name], and [name]Cassia[/name] were all either authors or characters in the Dear [name]America[/name] journals. I was massively in love with those around 4-6th grades! And [name]Susan[/name] very well might have been from the Chronicles of [name]Narnia[/name]–I began reading them around 5th grade.
When I was in 5th grade, I remember being in love with the name [name]Samantha[/name] and nicknaming her [name]Sammy[/name]. Nowadays, [name]Samantha[/name] is a name that I wouldn’t even consider using at all. For boys, [name]Zayden[/name] has ALWAYS been my favorite.
In fifth grade I was obsessed with [name]Little[/name] House on the [name]Prairie[/name] so I loved a lot of old Fashioned names, specifically [name]Charlotte[/name] and [name]Emmeline[/name]. But I also liked [name]Laura[/name], [name]Caroline[/name], [name]Eliza[/name], [name]Hannah[/name], [name]Felicity[/name], and [name]Sophia[/name]. When I was around Four or Five I loved the names [name]Fiona[/name] and [name]Annabel[/name] but only because of movie/tv characters i liked with those names. I never really thought about boys names when I was a child because I only ever had girl barbies/dolls/toys that needed naming, but when I had to name a boy his name was usually a classic like [name]Peter[/name], [name]John[/name], [name]Thomas[/name].
I remember specifically wishing that my name was [name]Alisha[/name]. Or anything that was feminissima. I never thought about boys’ names, because boys were gross.
My mom says that when I was very young I would make up elaborate names for my dolls and My [name]Little[/name] Ponies. Flancia was one that I recycled a lot.
Not quite sure of the ages, but I always loved: [name]Arianna[/name], [name]Sheridan[/name], [name]Zoe[/name], [name]Cheyenne[/name], [name]Scarlett[/name], [name]Anastasia[/name] & [name]Kaitlyn[/name]. The only ones I wouldn’t use now are [name]Sheridan[/name] & [name]Cheyenne[/name].
I was reminiscing (btw, fifth grade [name]Ashley[/name] had the worst, most awkward grammar ever, lol!), and came across a list of names I had written even back then. I didn’t even think I kept a name list, but apparently I did!
I do like [name]Scarlett[/name] as a middle name still, but now i have to compromise with the other half he hates the name…