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What name might you have been called instead of the one you have now

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wishingwellofhope · 22/04/2009 14:36

My DF wanted to call me Merlin if I was a boy and Gwenevere if I was a girl. My DM wanted Joseph for a boy and Abi-Jo for a girl. I ended up with Abi but secretly i'd have liked Gwenevere

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Wigglesworth · 28/04/2009 20:59

We were going to call DS Vinnie at one point until we realised he wasn't an Italian gangster.

DanJARMouse · 28/04/2009 20:58

I was always going to be Gemma Louise, but when I was born I just didnt look like one apparently! I ended up with Lindsay Anne - its vile! Would have prefered Gemma!

MamazonFirstladyofFilth · 28/04/2009 20:57

i was very nearly a Tracy!
whilst my name is horrific i am very very glad my nan stepped in.

bananafish · 28/04/2009 20:56

Amaryllis - ugh!

And Carol-Ann - double ugh!

I ended up with safe and boring, but considering the alternatives, I'm way happy.

Wigglesworth · 28/04/2009 20:56

Carla (yuk), Karl if I had been a boy. Thankfully my Grandads friend suggested my name to my Mum and she finally saw sense and used that one.
My DH was going to be called Winston cos his parents thought he looked like Churchill when he was just born .

nix72 · 28/04/2009 20:44

Lynette or Tania for a girl, both hideous! Adam(after Adam Faith) or Daniel for a boy.
Instead I ended up being one of five girls called Nicola in my class at school. Don't really like it but better than the other girl names.

MumOfAPickle · 28/04/2009 20:43

Gareth if I was a boy as it would have given me the name of a famous rugby player in the late 70's.

They also liked Jennifer for a girl and although I quite like it now I was dead chuffed not to have it growing up.

My middle name is Rose, which I hated so much when I was younger that I barely told a soul. Now, of course, its lovely and I would consider it for a duaghter

Summersoon · 28/04/2009 20:35

Heidi!!

(I don't share this info with many people.)

(That's an amazing story, hopeforthebest. I expect you would get into no end of trouble for that nowadays!)

Springfleurs · 28/04/2009 20:26

My DF wanted to call me Mitzi, if I was a girl .

My DM wanted to call me Timothy if I was a boy.

My DM got to name me in the end and named me after a character in her favourite book. I like my name but it is quite dated.

HopeForTheBestExpectTheWorst · 28/04/2009 20:18

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nannyogg · 28/04/2009 20:05

Stephanie, which I quite like actually. I like my name too though..

SchrodingersCat · 28/04/2009 19:24

I was going to be Camilla Margaret. My DM still didn't name for 5 days though.

jambutty · 28/04/2009 19:22

Robert or Wendy, apparently. No offence to any Roberts or Wendys (or is that Wendies?), but glad they changed their minds.

wed99 · 28/04/2009 19:19

Verity but my dad vetoed that or Simon

Kayzr · 28/04/2009 19:10

I was going to be called Georgina but I was born on April 23rd. But I love my name so I don't mind.

pottycock · 28/04/2009 19:06

Jezebel.

Yes, really.

fizzpops · 28/04/2009 19:02

Vanessa or Julian (I think!).

Vanessa would have suited me even less than my name now, and tbh I prefer my name even though it has never quite seemed like me.

Niecie · 28/04/2009 19:01

Victoria or Fleur! (Fleur - I ask you, what was my dad thinking)

I think Richard for a boy.

jenster1976 · 28/04/2009 18:57

If I'd been born 3 days earlier, my dad insists that I would have been Albehuera, and I'm not sure he's entirely joking Commemorates some battle won by dad's regiment back in the peninsula wars....wtf!!

schneebly · 28/04/2009 18:41

and ahem pramspotter..nowt wrong with Donald It is a great name!

schneebly · 28/04/2009 18:38

My Dad wanted to call me Heather which is a nice enough name but with my maiden name it would have sounded like a place...

Heather Glen

I am Scottish yes

If I was a boy I would have been Alistair which is the name of my brother.

Hotcrossbunny · 28/04/2009 18:34

Roberta

SmileyMylee · 28/04/2009 18:12

My Dad wanted to call me Beatrice. My mum loved it until she discovered it was the name of one of his ex-girlfriends!

amidaiwish · 28/04/2009 18:07

Donna-Marie

luckily my mum is super religious and i was born on a holy day so got that name instead. phew.

crumpet · 28/04/2009 17:42

Desiree.

Thanks Dad.

My actual name not great but a vast improvement!

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