Names you liked in the past that are completely different your current naming style?

[juliet.a]

like balloonsforellie my interest in names is (relatively) new, but i remember this one conversation i had with my mom when i was maybe a pre-teen:

I'm not sure why i brought it up, probably because there's someone in my life i love and respect named Eva. I said to my mom, I like Evelyn as a name.
She promptly made a sour face. "EW! that's so old lady."
Now i'd never use it because it's so popular!

[ashthedreamer]

Ugh, my style was so awful when I was first into names! My top 5 for girls was Ashlyn, Bailey, Emmerson, Sarah, and Honor. I still like Aislinn, and I think Sarah's lovely, but Bailey and Emmerson are awful, and Honor is okay, but Honora/Annora is much more my style now.

I still like a couple of trendy names like Macy and Hadley, but I wouldn't use them, because they don't really fit with Isabelle, Arianne, Olivia, Violet, Charlotte, etc.

[kibby]

I can't remember the very first names I was in love with, but I do recall loving Elizabeth for a long time, which is still considerable now, I had a major love affair with Evangeline also, which I still love, but wouldn't like use due to the religious overtones, Calypso is still a major love, but not very usable imo. I had a tom-boyish name phase, loving names like Alexis, Quinn and Tegan for awhile, not my style anymore clearly! I can't honestly think of any though that make me think "What was I thinking?!" or just completely stand out from what I normally like. I think my taste has definitely grown and evolved now though.

[nelliedellie]

While the names have channged my taste has stayed the same, more at less. I am started to like more quirky names now, but I still like the classic names as well. There was I stage I went through were I liked overly frilly girly names, (Ariana, Arabella, Lilliana, Isadora) which I can't stand anymore.

[stripedsocks]

I have always been a name-collector.

I still honestly like the nicknames I liked when I was tiny (and named my dolls after): I still love Jenny, Susie/Suzy - I had one doll named Susie and another named Suzy, it was my first real encounter with "same name different spelling" and Sally and Kitty still, though the long forms have changed.

What I don't love are the names I thought were terrifically stylish and cool as an older kid/teenager. Jenny/Susie/Kitty/Polly etc. ARE very cutesy, but today I much prefer those, which I liked when I was very little, to Chelsea, Madison, Alyssa and Hunter, Harrison, Tyler etc. I thought were sooo much cooler when I was 10-15.

[ebonyeden]

I don't have a list as such at the moment, but my naming style is very similar to yours with some added quirks.
As a little girl, I loved Cindy, Kathleen and Amelia, no boys names come to mine.
When I first started using nameberry, my boys list was:
Alasdair Cayden
Archer Laurent
Ashton Cole
Chase Anthony
Dermott Pierce
Dexter Lincoln Tate
Emmett Flynn
Evander
Finnegan Elias
Harrison Isaac
Hunter Nathaniel
Ignatius Jude
Jagger William
Jasper Owen
Jett Phoenix/Jett Ryder
Killian Elijah
Mason Alexander
Noah
Oaker
Oliver
Roman James
Rowan Augustus
Saxon
Sebastian Ellis
Silas
Xavier Kurt Hendrix
Zeppelin

My girls list was:
Aleithea Hope
Antigone Sophia
Arachne
Asta-Skye Morgana
Audrey
Blair Alexandra
Bristol Paige
Cassandra
Cecelia Victoire
Celeste
Cerelia Rowan
Clementine
Columbia Faith
Demetria
Drusilla
Edie Scarlett
Effie Rose
Eibhleann
Eilidh
Evangeline Grace
Florence Elisabetta
Genevieve Odette
Harlow
Hazel Sienna
Ivy Estelle
Ivy Cordelia/Cordelia Ivy
Kaya-Rayne Victoria
Liberty
Lilith
Mercie Annamarie
Millicent
Monet Nirvana
Octavia Irene
Paisley
Persephone Arwen Belle/Persephone Alice Sage/Persephone Eliza Wren
Porter
River
Savannah
Sawyer
Seraphina Jade
Temperance Ophelia/Ophelia Temperance
Tempest
Tenebre Winter
Willow Dakota
Winslow

While there are some names that I still like individually, there's no combinations that I still truly like.

[caroline147]

Oh gosh, I remember making my first name list about 9 years ago when I was 13ish, and in retrospect it was terrible! Influenced by pop culture, I loved Ethan and Harrison, and surnamey names for girls (Stokely, Peyton, Quinn, Hadley). I would never dream of using any of those now! I then started using naming forums and my taste improved, though I was a tad pretentious with a penchant for overly long and clunky names like Bartholomew, Peregrine, Dorothea and Leonora. I think my taste has been how similar to how it is now for around 6 years.

[handler]

I remember being about 7 years old and naming all of my dolls Zelda. I was obsessed with that name for some reason.

[maltwin1]

When I was really little I wanted to name a boy Presley Montgomery. It was the name of an ancestor on my grandmother's side and I thought it was amazingly unique.

In my teen years I was always so envious of girls named Taylor and Jordan...they seemed so adventurous.

Now, even though I still have my love of vintage names, Presley is off the list. Montgomery however will hopefully be making an appearance in the middle spot of a future daughter. Taylor and Jordan have gone the way of Presley but I still don't hate the gender benders.

[ebenezer.scrouge]

I LOVED Yasmine and Zoe as a double barrel Zoe-Yasmine for boys I loved Seth and Murdoch. I have loved Eamon since I was 10 (2008)