What names would you give children today?

That's spooky...I thought about posting this as a fluff post earlier today 

I would choose Cerys (pronounced Ke'-riss, equal emphasis) which is Welsh, and Freya which coincidentally, our DD and her fiancé have chosen for their baby due in August   There's another but it escapes me at the moment

A boy would be called Luca or Jude.

I still love my DDs names though 😊

I never got to use the girl names I liked and DH vetoed my choice for DS2, but I’d definitely still use them.

Girl - Monica Clare or Ellen Monica. The second was my favourite, as my two grandmothers were Eileen and Elena and my mum (who passed a year before DS1 was born) was Monica.

Boy - Xavier. I didn’t have a middle name chosen for this, but DH said we couldn’t give our kid the initial ‘X’. DS, who is unlikely to have kids of his own, says that if he ever did have a son, he’d name him Xavier, because X is a cool initial!

I had two names picked out, for a girl and a boy, and I used them both so not sure what I would do now.

Rory is a girl’s name in your world? I’ve only ever heard it as a boy name 😊

I never used any of my girl names choices, and of those we had chosen before "Sarah" is one I would still use. I also love "Grace".

I love my children’s names. Only thing I would change is my son’s middle name.

I would give him my maiden name as a middle name. Anderson.

I agree. I don’t recall hearing the name Rory for a boy or a girl before Gilmore Girls.

I would still use my son’s name. If he had been a girl I would have used Casey Blanche or something with Layla. But i would choose a different, more unique girl’s name now.

I like the names that I chose for my children.  Easy spelling and easy to pronounce. The names have been used in many generations but not easily defined to any generation.  Not cultural identifiable. 

Wouldn't be an embarrassment in the corporate world but not in the top 20.

I’m still happy with the names that we chose. In hindsight, I may have pushed MIL to use the form of DDs name that we used. She didn’t like it and called her by her formal name. It caused a lot of issues over the years with teachers and DD thinking our name for her was wrong. I love my MIL, but dang. She had 3 kids of her own that she named, with 2 adopted and she changed both of their names. If anyone should have understood, it should have been her!

We’ve been using our extra, unused names on the dogs. Casey (for KC-10s, which DH worked with), sandy was already named, and we now have an Emma. We are hot into negotiations with the next dog name now!

For a girl, I would choose Grace. For a boy, probably Chance or Declan. (I never had a boy)

Out of three daughters, there is only one I would change if she were born today. The other two, I still really like and would choose them again.

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I have a Graeme! He is 28 now. I’d use it again.

I wouldn't change ds23 name. Its a classic name with my mil maiden name for a middle name. But I am a bit bummed that when he was born his name wasn't even in the top 300 names for boys, and now its in the top 10. If I had had a daughter I would have gone with Hazel, and I still would.

I swear, the Peas have some serious ESP skills going on - this is the third time in a couple of days where someone has started a thread about something I have literally just been discussing - it's uncanny! 

Last night DD and I were discussing baby names. It started because she was telling me that several people at a party the night before told her how much they loved her name, and how cool her parents must be haha! She also met two of her favourite podcasters recently, one of whom is also on TV, and they told her how much they love her name. So even though she didn't like her name when she was younger, she likes it now. 

The first name we both mentioned was Saoirse - we both love love love this name, but probably wouldn't use it because we'd be setting up the kid with a lifetime of "How do you spell that?" or "Say-oy-sie? Say-oh-erse? Sow-erse?" 

We both also like Sadie, although one of DD's friends used that name, so there's no way she could use it, more's the pity.

I really like that a lot of old traditional names are coming back in. Whenever I hear one for the first time, I'm a bit like Really? But then they grow on me. I know children born in the last 5-10 years with names of both my grandparents and some great aunts: Elsie, Esther, Nellie, Florence, Hazel etc.