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Baby names

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Original poster

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

146 replies

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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QuietNinjaTardis · 11/09/2013 07:47

Ben.

PrincessKitKat · 11/09/2013 07:44

How many Rorys?!

I'd have been Richard Alexander. Meh.

lucidlady · 11/09/2013 07:40

Leo

Amy106 · 11/09/2013 07:40

William David

Toomuch2young · 11/09/2013 07:39

Noah or Samuel

Ruprekt · 11/09/2013 07:39

Philip Anthony

LauraChant · 11/09/2013 07:37

Daniel

bananananacoconuts · 11/09/2013 07:34

Simon or Francis! She was so convinced I was a boy that she had no girls names and consequently i was named after the midwife!

fanjodisfunction · 11/09/2013 07:32

Richard for me

If brother had been a girl he would have been Nicola.

WhyMeWhyNot · 11/09/2013 07:24

Stephen here. Got Stephanie as middle name instead

EsTutMirLeid · 11/09/2013 07:19

I would have been Steven.

QuarksInAPearTickle · 11/09/2013 07:11

James Walter after my Grandfathers, nn Jim. They had 2 boys after me so the eldest got that.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 11/09/2013 07:09

Thomas.

FortyFacedFuckers · 11/09/2013 07:09

Greg

louiespence · 11/09/2013 07:04

Neil.

MoreThanWords · 11/09/2013 07:04

Another Rory here! Are we all mid 40s?

SlinkyB · 11/09/2013 07:03

Liam or Aiden.

newmumsuchfun · 11/09/2013 07:02

Jonathan.

thoughtsbecomethings · 11/09/2013 07:01

Benjamin

NationMcKinley · 11/09/2013 07:01

Apparently my DM thought Peregrine was a fine name . So glad I was a girl

BikeRunSki · 11/09/2013 06:58

Ignatius (really).

Bowlersarm · 11/09/2013 06:50

Simon

DumSpiroSpero · 11/09/2013 06:48

Martin

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.

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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