Your teenage mum baby names?

I adored the names [name]Emma[/name] and [name]Lily[/name] for years. They were 100% going to be my daughters’ names! I remember feeling devastated when my OH’s brother called his daughter [name]Emma[/name] as it meant I wouldn’t ever be able to use it! Oh and I also had a soft spot for [name]Hermione[/name] and [name]Isabelle[/name]. I can’t remember liking any boys’ names in particular though, but then girls’ names have always been easier for me!

And when I was pre-teen I loved super flowery names such as [name]Primrose[/name], [name]Marigold[/name], [name]Bluebelle[/name]…

I totally forgot, Frilswilde and Minver were two of my favorites. It turned out Frilswilde was a typo for Frideswith in a namebook I found it in, I was rather disappointed.

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I loved [name]Lou[/name]-[name]Carmen[/name], [name]Carmina[/name] and [name]Lou[/name]-Salomé.

I fell in love with the name [name]Jack[/name] when I was 8, now I’m almost 18 and it’s still my number one boy name!

Oh man. My kids would have been [name]Charity[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name]. What the… :confused:

[name]Leah[/name] and [name]Gilbert[/name] (a la [name]Anne[/name] of [name]Green[/name] Gables)

…I still love [name]Gilbert[/name], but I think it would be a hard sell to DH

I liked [name]Savannah[/name] and [name]Leslie[/name] for girls, and [name]Joshua[/name] for a boy. Yeah, I was a bit all over the place.

I remember LOVING [name]Lacey[/name] and [name]Micah[/name] and [name]Landon[/name] when I was a teenager–from several books I read in high school. :slight_smile: I probably would have used those. I liked [name]Abigail[/name] a ton when I was about 12, too. And [name]Eliza[/name]! I absolutely adored [name]Eliza[/name] when I was in high school. I probably would have used [name]Eliza[/name] or [name]Lacey[/name] for a girl, and [name]Micah[/name] or [name]Landon[/name] for a boy. I still like all of them but would probably not use most of them anymore.

My girl name was [name]Hannah[/name] and my boy name was [name]Gabriel[/name]. Not horrible, but neither one is on my list now.

[i]I’m still in my teens but my style has changed a lot in a year, maybe a year and a half.

I was set on naming any future daughters either [name]Poppy[/name] [name]Brielle[/name] [name]Kiana[/name], [name]Sage[/name] [name]Rosalind[/name], [name]Dharma[/name] [name]Melody[/name] or [name]Florence[/name] [name]Elisabetta[/name]. ([name]Florence[/name] is still on my list.) Now I would opt for [name]Octavia[/name] [name]Sybella[/name] [name]Patience[/name], [name]Florence[/name] [name]Elisabetta[/name] [name]Pearl[/name], [name]Luna[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] or [name]Violet[/name] [name]Morgana[/name] [name]Skye[/name].

For boys I liked [name]Mason[/name] [name]Alexander[/name] and [name]Killian[/name] [name]Elijah[/name] [name]Noah[/name]. I would now prefer something like [name]Alasdair[/name] [name]William[/name] [name]Fox[/name] or [name]Jasper[/name] [name]Wesley[/name] [name]Stone[/name].[/i]

[name]Madison[/name], and [name]Cassie[/name]…I don’t think they’re too bad!
I remember as a young child that I also loved the name [name]Jessica[/name]. All of my dolls were called [name]Jessica[/name], with different middle names!

I remember liking [name]Jaden[/name], [name]Mikayla[/name], and [name]Kaiden[/name] (prn. like Kyden), among others. :eek: Now I wouldn’t touch those names with a ten-foot pole.

I’ve only just turned 20 so some of my teenage mum names weren’t so bad :slight_smile: The very first ones, when I was about 14 or so would have been [name]Keira[/name]-[name]Lee[/name] which turned into [name]Kira[/name] [name]Madeline[/name] which turned into [name]Kira[/name] [name]Madeleine[/name] [name]Ruby[/name] which has now turned into [name]Ciara[/name] something or other.

I remember being set on [name]Lily[/name] and [name]Noah[/name] for years, in my earlier teenage years. Later on, I experimented with various spellings of [name]Destiny[/name], [name]Skye[/name], [name]Venus[/name] and [name]Liberty[/name] - thank gosh I graduated from that trend. I also remember liking [name]Wyatt[/name] and [name]Keanu[/name].

I loved [name]Dominique[/name] and [name]Mercedes[/name] – I thought they were so exotic! I don’t think I ever actually thought about boys’ names.

I loved [name]Julia[/name].

I used to do childrens birthdays and wanted 3 kids (2 boys 1 girl) [name]Ziggy[/name], [name]Zac[/name] and [name]Zoe[/name]!!
[name]Glad[/name] I didnt have kids when I was a teenager

I loved what I thought were classic names:

Girls
[name]Hannah[/name]
[name]Emily[/name]
[name]Violet[/name]
[name]Lily[/name]

I also liked [name]Jenny[/name] but not [name]Jennifer[/name] and [name]Susie[/name] but not [name]Susan[/name]. I was always looking for other long names those two could be short for.

Boys
[name]Patrick[/name] [name]Ari[/name]
[name]Nathaniel[/name] [name]Hart[/name]
[name]Joshua[/name] [name]Tyler[/name] (I don’t know WHY [name]Tyler[/name]!)
[name]Jesse[/name]

I still love or at least like most of these, but [name]Hannah[/name] and [name]Emily[/name] and [name]Lily[/name] are all incredibly popular and I’d be afraid to I think. I do still love [name]Susie[/name] but have since come to love [name]Susannah[/name] which I didn’t at the time. I do still like [name]Jenny[/name] but would probably use [name]Gen[/name] a nickname for [name]Imogen[/name], which I had never heard of at the time.

My husband has specifically banned [name]Patrick[/name], [name]Nathaniel[/name], and [name]Jesse[/name], even though I still like all three. I don’t like [name]Joshua[/name] as much as I used to and I can no longer stand [name]Tyler[/name] at all.

names i loved as a teen:

boys
[name]Noah[/name]
[name]Jack[/name]
[name]Daniel[/name]
[name]Jude[/name]
[name]Tate[/name]
Braie
[name]Jasper[/name]
[name]Gabriel/name
[name]Rafferty[/name]

girls
martha
lois
saoirse
marie
ottilie
anastasia
bluebelle
isabelle

most girls names are from my best friend in HS’s name as she had 6 middle names!!! boys names are quite short and quirky, still like many of them but with long names! [name]Jack[/name], [name]Daniel[/name], [name]Gabriel[/name], [name]Jasper[/name], [name]Tate[/name], [name]Rafferty[/name] & [name]Jude[/name] are still faves!

[name]Maisie[/name] & [name]Sloan[/name] & [name]Owen[/name] were my favorite girl names in the late 90’s, probably [name]James[/name] or [name]John[/name] for a boy? I never really considered boy names very much. Not awful, I would still use [name]Maisie[/name] as a nn or [name]Sloan[/name] or [name]Owen[/name] for a mn…and if I have a boy he might just be [name]John[/name], but my tastes have changed!