What names would you give children today?

Her name is Margaret Anne. I felt like she needed to have a "grownup" full name because she wouldn't be a little girl forever.

I worked with a Guy once of Greek heritage and his initials were XX
also he was a doctor……so Dr X
He was teased a lot - all in good fun 

The football team I support here used to have a co-trainer whose name was Xaver Zembrod. All the trainers had their initials on their matchday shirts, so his read XZ. I wanted him to have a middle name like Yves or Yannik, because that would have been really something!

I have enough trouble picking pet names, I think I’d really struggle naming a child now.

I used to have favourite names but don’t think I do now. I do like Malachi or Caleb for boys and Olivia and Kenzie for girls. I love Irish names and old names like Eleanor.

I always wanted Christine or Clara (rhymes with carer, not Lara) with Eve as a second name for a girl, and David for a boy. But my DH's names stopped that happening. Didn't matter, we never had children.

The girl name I did not get to use since I did not have a girl, is Catherine Grace. Still love that name and would use it now. I have loved both of those names since I was a child. I must have seen them in books because I don’t remember classmates with either name.

My son is only 3 so we would have still stuck with his name. We didn’t find out the sex when I was pregnant so we had a boy and a girl name picked, I would have changed the girl name.

Malik
Mekhi
Mateo

for a girl, Lyla

I would choose my son's name again, Cole. It's become more popular in the past few years but when he was born, it wasn't very common. I got it from the tv show Martin back in the early 90s.

DH was too opinionated with the kid naming process… I use my unused names for novel characters.

I liked Caleb and Colin but our first two kids were girls…

I liked Sadie (now my nieces name) for a girl and Rowan for a boy at one point. Some celebrity named their daughter Rowan and I didn’t want DS to have a name that “turned” into a girl name. I don’t know a single Rowan, I should have used it…

Interesting question. I'm OK with the names we picked.

I have a Lillian Claire. She goes by Claire so I probably should have found a middle name for that.

I would have found a better nickname for my son who is the third. His nickname makes him sound like a racecar driver.

My other daughter's name is Kelly and it suits her but there were 2 Kellys, a Kellie, Katelyn, Kaylee, Caitlin, etc. in her class. At her birthday party there was only one girl out of eight whose name didn't start with a K/C sound. I might have done that differently.

Elon Musk has a child named X.
That Reddit is hilarious.

DD is Lia Grace and I wouldn't change it. We love it and she's happy with it. There were other names that I really liked but dh didn't and we agreed on this and are happy with our decision. We do usually call her Grace/Gracie but only us, her one uncle and boyfriend are allowed to do this. If anyone else tries it she tells them not to!

We were glad she was a girl as a) that was what we had hoped for and b) we couldn't come up with any boy names that we loved.

ETA one of my grandmothers was named Margaret and she died when I was eleven. I kind of wanted to call a daughter Margot in honor but dh hated that name.  But as dd's name is perfect for her, I'm not upset. 

I love my kids names - our daughter's name is unique without being really off the wall or a "tragedeigh".  our son came along as a surprise 7 years later and we just went with the name we'd picked if #1 had been a boy.

I will forever be sad I didnt' get to use our girl name the 2nd time around - Ainsley Jane...... 

I definitely would use the same name for my son. His name is Dalton after Patrick swayzee in Roadhouse. I definitely would change my daughter's name but I don't know to what.