I am everlastingly grateful that my mum was prevented from calling me...

[GrendelsMum]

Rainbow.

Really. I don't like the name she did give me, but at least once a week I think 'this job would be so much harder if my name was Rainbow'. (Though perhaps it would have given me a tougher personality?)

Is anyone else pleased to have missed out on a name?

Caveat to all Rainbows / mums of Rainbows on here - I'm sure you / your daughter will love it.

[Hassled]

I was nearly Elspeth. And for years I thought "thank God I wasn't Elspeth." Now I really like the name, more so than my own. But at least I'm not Rainbow.

[PuppyMonkey]

It might have made you more interesting.

Not that you're boring!! It just might have given you a different, more exciting character.

[whomovedmychocolate]

Tell that to my friend Tuesday (no seriously, I think her parents were drunk for much of the 60s!)

[TrillianslebAstra]

Daisy May.

I'm just not a Daisy. Or maybe if I were Daisy I'd be all sweetness and light and giggly. I still woulnd't be blonde though.

[LaTrucha]

Candace here. Phew!

[Stannie]

Candida ...

She blames the hormomes.. She wanted to be able to call me Candi

[usernametaken]

My dad wanted Hermione or Hepzibah for me and Jasper for my brother. My mother put her foot down and thankfully saw through his hormonal whims.

[girlandboy]

Eric!

Thank goodness I was a girl.

[Bellsa]

Jemima. My Dad talked (some) sense into her.

[MrsMattie]

I was almost Angharad. Thank fuck.

[DjangoTheDjinn]

I like all of these names.

I would have been Flora if my Mum had chosen which is fine.

Dad chose and I'm named after a Beach Boys' song. Everybody sings it to me. It stopped being funny in 1985.

[MamaHobgoblin]

I was nearly Matthew. Wouldn't have suited me.

[Ewe]

I was almost a Raquel.

[FaintlyMacabre]

Cressaid. Not even Cressida. Luckily my Mum put her foot down.

[funnypeculiar]

Thankfully my Dad was over-ruled before I became Drosophila (latin name for those little fruit flies)

[RoseBlossoms]

Rita!

[hester]

I was almost Hedwig [shudder]. It is a family name, but that's really no excuse.

I was convinced I would win this thread, but I think funnypeculiar has got first prize.

Stannie, I know somebody (yes ok, she is family) called Candida Piel.

[Wheelybug]

I was almost Angharad. Quite a nice name but given my surname was impronouncable/spellable and I was in England it would have been a nightmare.

[Wheelybug]

oh didn't see your post MrsMattie - snap !

[funnypeculiar]

Dunno, Hedwig is pretty bad....

[hester]

If I told you my surname, you'd know just how bad...

[bettythebuilder]

if I was a boy, Dad wanted to call me Roger. Bearing in mind my maiden name was Moor, t'would not have been good.

[JodieO]

If someone didn't like their name they can always change it, no big deal really. I was called Johanna Faith for a couple of months and had a birth certificate saying it, my mum then changed my name to what it is now.

[sleepsforwimps]

I was almost Lara, but my Great Aunt wanted me to be called Laura, so to save arguments my Mum called me something completly different. Even though I like my name, I would have preferred to have been a Lara.

whomovedmychocolate I went to school with a Tuesday, so there's more than one of them out there!