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I am everlastingly grateful that my mum was prevented from calling me...

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GrendelsMum · 23/07/2009 19:58

Rainbow.

Really. I don't like the name she did give me, but at least once a week I think 'this job would be so much harder if my name was Rainbow'. (Though perhaps it would have given me a tougher personality?)

Is anyone else pleased to have missed out on a name?

Caveat to all Rainbows / mums of Rainbows on here - I'm sure you / your daughter will love it.

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chubbychipmonk · 24/07/2009 22:29

I was a stones throw away from being Felicity . .my mum tought it was a 'fun' name and could have been shortened to ' flick' as a nickname . .phew!!

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GrendelsMum · 24/07/2009 17:56

Fanjo - oh good, I like those threads.

It's Friday evening - lets all uncork the wine and start insulting each other.

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GrendelsMum · 24/07/2009 17:55

I've just searched for 'Rainbow' on the Baby Name threads, and it looks like my mum was loopier than anyone on MN. Only Jules Oliver is daft enough to call a baby Rainbow.

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 24/07/2009 17:54

lets all just post our DCs names and we can all say nasty things about each others

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GrendelsMum · 24/07/2009 17:51

Come on, isn't anyone here going to admit to calling their child Rainbow? I want a fight.

Someone has now said on this thread that their daughter has the name I got instead of Rainbow, and that I don't like either. Poster who shall be nameless, your daughter's name is vile. Call her Drosophilia instead

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schneebly · 24/07/2009 16:39

Heather.

The name itself is fine but pair it with my maiden name (Scottish word for valley) and it sounds like some kind of mythical place where the haggis roam

If I was a boy I would have been Alistair which my brother got.

bamboobutton · 24/07/2009 16:34

dad wanted to call me something normal, emma or emily i think. mum wanted polly. im glad mum won because there were loads of emmas and emilys at school, but i was the only polly

if i had been a boy i would've been called Drummer

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 24/07/2009 16:33

(she is not called Hedwig or Esmerelda)

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 24/07/2009 16:32

aww have just read DDs name on here, and am just waiting for my own name to appear, it usually does on these ones!!

MrsGokWantstogotoHogwarts · 24/07/2009 16:27

Ooooh! also my Aunt was going to call her DD1 Shelly and my Mum piped up 'smelly Shelly' when she heard. My Aunt didn't call her DD that, needless to say.

LovingtheSilverFox · 24/07/2009 16:26

My Dad wanted to call me Maude, as it was my grandmother's middle name (her first name was Olga, glup!), she stated most emphatically, that she would never speak to him again if he dared. Thanks Nanny!!

PixiNanny · 24/07/2009 16:17

My parents only had a list of like 4 names for all of us, 3 for girls and 1 for boys (wanted Iranian/English names), thankfully they had three girls and no boys If I were a boy I would have been Sam though, or 'Som' as my Dad says giggles I still half resent my name though, both my sisters got the less common-more Iranian names, whereas I got the blooming common British one rolls eyes

DebiNewberry · 24/07/2009 16:14

I am snaps with MrsMattie.

Niecie · 24/07/2009 16:12

My Dad wanted to call me Fleur. Thank goodness he was forced to go with his second choice which, although no great is better than Fleur. It would have been particularly bad shouted in a slight estuary accent which my Dad has.

My mum wanted to call me Victoria which I quite like.

I would have been Richard if I was a boy.

MamaLazarou · 24/07/2009 16:10

sybilvimes: Minevra? Or Minerva?

Kagey · 24/07/2009 16:08

My Mum wanted to call me Kizzy and my Dad wanted Sarah-Jane, so they agreed on something entirely different which was not too unusual but not overly popular either.

cyteen · 24/07/2009 16:03

Binkyboo - or Barbara Anne...

My gran wanted Posie for me, apparently

qumquat · 24/07/2009 15:47

I was almost Tessa, thank my lucky starts my dad overruled my mum on that! My name was very popular and there were always others around in school but it never bothered me and I've always loved my name.

Binkyboo · 24/07/2009 14:59

Django must be Rhonda!!

MrsGokWantstogotoHogwarts · 24/07/2009 14:36

I was going to be called Aurora but when my Dad went to the consulate to register me he couldn't remember how to spell it so he put me down as Dawn, which is the translation from the French. I have never forgiven him as I always wanted to be called Rory as a nickname growing up

mrsradders · 24/07/2009 13:56

oh i was nearly anastacia and i would have been happy with it my name is ssooooo top 5 1982 that i hated it with a passion!!!!

i have a Lara and a Harriet and we are trying to decide between florence and hermione for DD3, i don't want my girls to be one of many in same class, school, year lol!!!
xx

GetOrfMoiLand · 24/07/2009 13:51

I was nearly called Reagan as my gran had watched the Exorcist and thought it was a nice name.

Thankfully sanity and reason prevailed.

DontCallMeBaby · 24/07/2009 13:41

My dad wanted to call me Kwacha ... the currency of a number of African countries. Also the Bemba for 'dawn', which is a nice meaning, but I am one of the whitest people you've ever met, I'd have spent my entire life meeting people and them saying 'oh, you're not quite what I expected', and knowing EXACTLY what they meant. It was a lucky escape.

PiggyPenguin · 24/07/2009 13:34

Nearly as bad

PiggyPenguin · 24/07/2009 13:34

Minevra. I would thank god that i escaped it but then she went and called me something else early as bad

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