My real name is [name]Courtney[/name], but these are the names I wished I had when I was little:
[name]Mary[/name]-[name]Kate[/name] - my cousin wanted to be [name]Ashley[/name]
[name]Heidi[/name] - I knew a pretty girl with this name
[name]Cloud[/name] - what 2nd grader doesn’t want a cool name like this?
[name]Jessica[/name] - I wanted a name with nicknames! haha
[name]Jazzy[/name]/[name]Jazzmyn[/name] - I knew a girl named this and I thought it was so cool
[name]Laiken[/name] - I still think this sounds cool
[name]Miley[/name] - Yes, I watched [name]Hannah[/name] Montanta
[name]Candace[/name] - I loved the nn [name]Candy[/name], plus it got bonus points for being the real name of the girl who played DJ on Full House
[name]Samantha[/name] - [name]Sammy[/name] was the coolest nn on a girl lol
[name]Zoey[/name] - from [name]Zoey[/name] 101
Stevie - from the books and TV show ‘The Saddle Club’
Haha, I would have renamed myself a thousand times when I was young. My name is [name]Eleanore[/name] & I love my name now that I’m 28. I loved [name]Dawn[/name], [name]Fawn[/name], [name]Nellie[/name], [name]Molly[/name], [name]Clarissa[/name], [name]Claudia[/name] & [name]Brooke[/name]. I got a lot of those names from [name]Baby[/name] Sitters Club books, TV, American Girl Dolls, & other little girls I knew. I think [name]Dawn[/name] was my favorite for quite a while. Fun thread
I went through phases where I wanted to be…
[name]Kimberly[/name] (standard cool girl 80s name?)
[name]Dakota[/name] (I loved me some state names, oy)
[name]Stacey[/name] (Babysitters Club)
[name]Violet[/name] (Boxcar Children)
[name]Suzanne[/name] (I honestly have no idea where I got this)
[name]Bianca[/name] (maybe Rescuers?)
[name]Lucretia[/name] (My great grandmothers name which I thought was so cool)
[name]Stephanie[/name] (Full House)
[name]Clarissa[/name] (so I could explain it all)
[name]Natasha[/name] (my best friend and I thought she had the coolest name ever. I was four)
[name]Rapunzel[/name] (she had really long hair and was trapped in a tower. what’s not to love?)
[name]Cecily[/name], [name]Olivia[/name], [name]Nora[/name], [name]Nadja[/name], [name]Carolin[/name], Rosilda, Josefin, [name]Aurora[/name], [name]Lisabet[/name] (characters from books)
[name]Skye[/name] – I kept making different imaginary friends called that, and I would read it in books and decided it was beautiful!
[name]Evie[/name] – I still really like this nicknamey-feeling name, and it was one of my secret names I loved when I was a kid.
[name]Rose[/name] – I still like this one too, though it is a bit overused as a mn, but I thought it would make a gorgeous first!
[name]Simone[/name] – I would write little stories and kept naming characters this. I thought it would be so exotic to have it as a name.
[name]Twyla[/name] – A name I found that I fell in love with when I was maybe eight (I have been obsessed with names for a while)
Sunset nn [name]Sunny[/name] – More of a name for a stuffed animal or a pet than a child…
[name]Vanessa[/name]- I thought it was the coolest, most grown up name ever-and she was my bff.
[name]Claire[/name]- Breakfast Club.
[name]Andy[/name]- I was a big [name]Molly[/name] Ringwald fan, I guess. This is from Sixteen Candles.
[name]Rebecca[/name]- I was furious when my Mom told me that my Dad wouldn’t let her name me [name]Rebecca[/name].
[name]Priscilla[/name]- I just thought it was beautiful.
[name]Cordelia[/name]- I loved [name]Anne[/name] of [name]Green[/name] Gables.
I wanted to be a [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Kate[/name] so bad too. lol
I also wanted:
[name]Alison[/name]
[name]Ashley[/name]
[name]Britney[/name]
[name]Jasmine[/name] nn [name]Jazzy[/name]
[name]Alyssa[/name]
[name]Melody[/name] - from the [name]Little[/name] Mermaid 2, it’s first syllable is also close to my name. [name]Mal[/name] -> [name]Mel[/name]
M.J. - As a nickname, which are my initials as well. Inspired by Spiderman
[name]Danielle[/name] nn [name]Dani[/name]
[name]Vanessa[/name]
[name]Susan[/name] - I liked [name]Susan[/name] from [name]Narnia[/name], it was a “normal” name, and [name]Susie[/name] was adorable.
[name]Suzi[/name] - Like [name]Susie[/name], but with a z, and an i! Hey, it was the '80s.
[name]Jessica[/name] - A J name like mine, but normal!
[name]Josephine[/name] - [name]Little[/name] Women, “normal” name, J. I liked my J.
[name]Jenny[/name] - What want-to-be-normal '80s baby would pass up a chance to be [name]Jenny[/name]?
[name]Katharine[/name], [name]Katie[/name], [name]Kat[/name] - All of these, especially [name]Kat[/name] short for [name]Katharine[/name].
[name]Elizabeth[/name] - My favourite nickname of the time was [name]Beth[/name], which I now don’t like so much, but [name]Elizabeth[/name] still feels classic and timeless.
[name]Karen[/name] - Not entirely clear on why I thought, when I was five and six and seven, that [name]Karen[/name] was so impossibly dramatic and beautiful and modern, but I did. Or [name]Karyn[/name], [name]Kara[/name], etc.
[name]Amethyst[/name] - My birthstone
[name]Violet[/name] - My birth flower.
[name]Megan[/name] - Not sure why but wanted this to be my name when I was very young, and then wanted it to be my baby’s name.
[name]Courtney[/name] - I found out that this was the name I was almost given and then of course wished it had been.
[name]Ariel[/name] - Obvious.
[name]Dawn[/name] - Also from the [name]Baby[/name] Sitters Club
[name]Serena[/name] - [name]Sailor[/name] [name]Moon[/name]
[name]Amber[/name] - This became my fake name that I’d give to guys I met at the bar.
