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What would your parents have named you if you were a boy?

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MrsMongoose · 10/09/2013 23:19

Or a girl, if you're a man!

I'd have been Ross Lewis Surname.

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Cheerymum · 10/09/2013 23:20

I would have been Hugh.

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cherrycherry41 · 10/09/2013 23:44

Jake

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Justinepants · 10/09/2013 23:46

Knickerless - so glad I wasn't.

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josiejay · 10/09/2013 23:46

John-Paul, after the Pope. I would have been one of about 4 in my class (Catholic school).

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NotAnotherPackedLunch · 10/09/2013 23:46

Rory

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NormanTheForeman · 10/09/2013 23:47

Richard Paul Surname

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NothinToSeeHere · 10/09/2013 23:51

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butterflyflyaway · 10/09/2013 23:53

Dominic Confused

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Ragusa · 10/09/2013 23:53

Gareth. Seems odd to think that Gareth Surname could have been me Grin

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squoosh · 11/09/2013 00:02

I would have been Ross too.

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 11/09/2013 00:08

Jake

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twentyfourcarat · 11/09/2013 00:38

Miles... and would have been alliterative

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iowastate196 · 11/09/2013 00:53

Brendan

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DanceLikeJohnTravoltaNow · 11/09/2013 00:55

Rufus

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ABumDance · 11/09/2013 01:04

The same name. My parents liked the name from a song so chose to use it no matter what.

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SmallBee · 11/09/2013 03:20

Rory Simon

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Shesparkles · 11/09/2013 03:32

I would have been Robbie

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LittleBallOfFur · 11/09/2013 03:43

Ross (mums a poldark fan)

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LillyNotOfTheValley · 11/09/2013 03:52

Probably Laszlo Vincent Henry Theophilius. DM brought this up when I had DS..

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poocatcherchampion · 11/09/2013 04:12

Philip. which is my dh name so she got it in the end. Smile.

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3boysgirlontheway · 11/09/2013 04:42

Robert John

My brother came along 6 years later and they got to use it then.

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picnicbasketcase · 11/09/2013 05:01

My parents didn't bother to think up names for if me and my siblings had been the other sex - my DM apparently just 'knew' what we all were. Bit woo.

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DumSpiroSpero · 11/09/2013 06:48

MartinConfused

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Bowlersarm · 11/09/2013 06:50

Simon

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