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

185 replies

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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cyteen · 22/04/2009 15:21

Apparently my gran suggested Posie

PheasantPlucker · 22/04/2009 15:15

My mum wanted Sergei if I was a boy. Which would have been great in St Petersburg, but a tad cruel in rural Norfolk in 1968!

cazinski · 22/04/2009 15:12

I would have been Peter...or Lindsay. Hmmmm, to be fair the real name I've got is awful too! Thanks Mum and Dad!

SmilingEi · 22/04/2009 14:42

my dad wanted to call me stephen if i was a boy and didnt have any idea of a girl name he preferred, my mum wanted heidi for a girl or stephen for a boy...i was then called eileen after my mums sister who had died...im not sure what i would have preferred but im not a big fan of my name given that im 26 not 86
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Iklboo · 22/04/2009 14:42

If I had been a boy I would have been called Christopher Lee. Mum was a big Dracula fan (thank f*ck she didn't like Boris Karloff!).
My dad wanted to call me Ruby too, but with my (then) surname it would have sounded like someone trying to say 'rhubarb' while going over a speed bump

Fimbo · 22/04/2009 14:41

I was born in 1968, I am named after my dad's favourite actress of the time.

The other options were Heather, Fiona, Lesley and Daryl.

The only had one boy name picked which was Craig.

squeaver · 22/04/2009 14:40

Kirsty. I consider that a bullet dodged.

GiraffeAHolic · 22/04/2009 14:40

My Mum wanted to call me Celia

tummytickler · 22/04/2009 14:39

My Dad wanted to call me Ruby and my Mum wanted to call me the name they gave me . Wish i was a Ruby tbh!
For a boy - Kevin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was born in the '70's! thank god i was a girl.

claireybee · 22/04/2009 14:37

I was going to be Bryony or Peter