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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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pramspotter · 26/04/2009 19:20

If I was a boy I would have been Donald Frank. Thank god I was born without a willy.

I was born at Christmas and my mom wanted to call me Noel (pronounced No-well). But she was talked out of it.

I ended up being Nicole. Sucks but it's better than the others.

steppemum · 26/04/2009 19:20

My elder brother would have been Nancy if he had been a girl, thank goodness they changed their mind before they got to me!!!

I was actually called rachel for 2 days, they even registered me as Rachel and then changed their minds, so my birth certificate has an alteration on it. (there's a column for name changed within 10 days)
Don't mind Rachel but it is weird to think that I would have been a different name all my life.

gillydaffodil · 26/04/2009 17:52

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SalopianGirl · 26/04/2009 17:12

Tamzin - but it didn't go with my surname,thank God!

hifi · 26/04/2009 12:00

dominic
hayley
selina
ida!!!!

allthetwinklystars · 26/04/2009 11:00

Jemima.

stroppyknickers · 26/04/2009 10:57

Bethsheba. Only just got off slightly better.

KateF · 26/04/2009 10:56

Dad wanted to call me Antonia or Francesca, Mum won so I was one of 6 Catherines in my year at school! Younger brother is Richard so presumably I would have got that had I been a boy.

itfcbabe · 26/04/2009 10:35

mum wanted jessica but dad said he wasn't calling hius daughter jessie!

in the 70's a jessie was a name for a gay man!!!!

Swedes · 25/04/2009 20:18
chickchickchickee · 25/04/2009 16:09

Was nearly a Natalie, and if male, Luke (80s child)

MadameCheese · 25/04/2009 16:06

Stephanie but sister is called Caroline so parents felt they didn't want to copy the Monacos.

Or William but I'm female so that would have been weird

GossipMonger · 25/04/2009 16:01

Philip or Sarah.

Dad decided I didnt look like a Sarah though.

I have 3 bros and a sis and none of them are called Philip or Sarah! (I am the eldest)

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whoingodsnameami · 25/04/2009 15:57

If I was a boy I was going to be called Curtis and if I was born in the month I was due, I would have been called Keyleigh

ohdearwhatamess · 25/04/2009 15:55

Richard, if a boy, despite the fact that it really didn't work with my parents' surname.

foxinsocks · 25/04/2009 15:39

George

katiepotatie · 25/04/2009 15:38

I was Jimmy the whole way through my dm's pregnancy, and would have been Jimmy had I been a boy. Was named after my dgm.

TigersChick · 25/04/2009 15:35

If I'd been a boy, I'd have been Jonathan.
Not long after I was born a family moved in 2 doors down from us with 2 boys called [DB's name] and Jonathan so it was probably lucky that I wasn't a boy!!
They toyed with the idea of calling me Polly; quite glad they didn't

troutpout · 25/04/2009 15:29

Melvyn if i'd been a boy

stillenacht · 25/04/2009 15:13

or Robert

stillenacht · 25/04/2009 15:13

Melanie

littleboyblue · 25/04/2009 15:12

If I had been born 29 minutes later, I would have been called Davey regardless of being a boy or a girl as both parents are david Bowie fans and 29 minutes later would have been his birthday.
They originally wanted Sarah-Jane for a girl, but settled on sonething else. Not really sure if I was a boy, my memory thinks they once told me I'd have been Tom, after my dad's goldfish......

Swedes · 25/04/2009 15:05

I was going to be Hugh if a boy, after my uncle. I think they thought about calling me Anna but instead I got that as a middle name.

MrsMills · 25/04/2009 14:59

India, or Felix if I was a boy.

I was eventually named after one of my fathers ex girlfriends.

True true true

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