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What were you almost named?

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KittyTwoShoes · 19/08/2010 22:35

Just thinking about how on earth anyone ever decides on a name for their child and wondered if anyone knows their parents' shortlists? I'm interested to see how they differ from the shortlists on here today.

I'm Katherine, but was almost Anastasia... DP was almost Morris(!).

So what were you nearly called?

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bibbitybobbityhat · 19/08/2010 22:51

Michaela, as I was born on St Michaelmas Day.

When I was in my 20s I worked at a small company and there was a woman there with the same birthday as me. She was Mic.

Wanderingsheep · 19/08/2010 22:51

Not for me, I hasten to add, but for a boy!

TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench · 19/08/2010 22:50

I was Katherine for two weeks, but mum had a road to Damascus and changed it. Which is a shame because I really love the name Kate, far more than my own.

MOSP · 19/08/2010 22:50

Morag

Wanderingsheep · 19/08/2010 22:50

My mum wanted my actual name the whole way through her pregnancy but my Dad and sister both wanted me to be a boy and they wanted to call me Daniel. I actually quite like the name Daniel!

Honeydragon · 19/08/2010 22:49

Strongest contender was ...Bathsheba

followed by Samantha

I am forever grateful to my brother who then (age 9) firmly put his foot down in the hospital and said no to both!

(Oh and as I was born on an armistice Sunday the Midwife suggested Remeberance too!)

EsmeWeatherwax · 19/08/2010 22:49

Avril. Boak...Was also going to be zoe or Chloe, both of which I like...

BrittanyBeers · 19/08/2010 22:49

Django or Sunni if I was a boy.

Fimbo · 19/08/2010 22:48

My friend was to be called Jacqueline, her dad went to register the birth and then couldn't recall how to spell it and came home and told my friend's mum that she was registered as Susan.

hhg · 19/08/2010 22:47

Going to be Lorraine, Lesley or Gillian

Fimbo · 19/08/2010 22:47

Heather, Fiona or Darrell. Could have coped with Heather or Fiona. But Darrell an well the name they gave me - urgh!

I would have been Craig Brian if I had been a boy.

Greensleeves · 19/08/2010 22:47

Amy

Really, really wouldn't have suited me

superdragonmama · 19/08/2010 22:46

Laurence or Christopher - but I was, am, a girl

Please let me change my name to Hedwig Grin

yoginipinkBikini · 19/08/2010 22:46

almost Miriam

lifeas3plus1 · 19/08/2010 22:46

I was very nearly Kelly-Ann Marie.

How awful (sorry to anyone with this name)

Glad mom came round in time to tell my dad where to stick it. lol.

LaDiDaDi · 19/08/2010 22:46

I would have been Carl Alder if I had been a boy.

Other options for girls names were, apparently, Coral or Deanne. Very pleased they went with my name Grin.

scurryfunge · 19/08/2010 22:45

I was going to be Emily.....that became the cat's name though before me.

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KittyTwoShoes · 19/08/2010 22:45

Hedwig?!?! Wowzer.

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hester · 19/08/2010 22:44

I'm sorry, not one of you have beaten Hedwig. I claim the prize.

spiderlight · 19/08/2010 22:44

Esther or Theodora. Or Richard Hmm

SecretNutellaFix · 19/08/2010 22:43

I was supposed to be a boy.

They were convinced. Until I arrived, revealing my true nature to the worldGrin

I was always going to have some variant of the names I am currently blessed with. It just took them the whole 6 weeks to decide.

Had I been a boy I would have been Michael James Edward Peter

Lionstar · 19/08/2010 22:43

Donna. So glad my Mum over-ruled!

SoMuchToBits · 19/08/2010 22:43

If I had been a boy I would have been Richard Paul. I'm a Heather. My grnadmother would have liked either me or my twin sister (who would have been a Clifford John if a boy)to have been a Charlotte. Neither of us were a Charlotte.

FranSanDisco · 19/08/2010 22:42

Lesley - get real mummio! Hmm It was the 60s so think she had smoked something.

TheFallenMadonna · 19/08/2010 22:41

Colin.

Colin.