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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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Spidermama · 24/07/2009 13:24

My name is utterly tedious and very very common. I wish my mum had been a bit more creative.

Mind you I am glad she vetoed Barnaby for my brother.

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GrendelsMum · 24/07/2009 13:19

Most of these aren't too bad!

Apart from Drosophila, Candida, Tuesday and Rainbow. And being named after a mass murderer, of course.

I think the reason I so much dislike Rainbow is that it's a very girly name, and since I have a very girly appearance, and a very ungirly personality, I'd just get more prejudgement about my personality than I already do.

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purpleduck · 24/07/2009 12:59

linda

Hate my name now, but not sure I am a Linda.

I always thought of myself as a bit of a Carrie...I wonder if its loo late to change

FrogmellaMoonbeam · 24/07/2009 12:58

I was going to be a Sarah but the next door neighbour had her little girl first so I am a Claire instead!

My DSIL is a Claire Elaine but right up to being born she was going to be Paula Jane Wednesday!

101handbags · 24/07/2009 12:48

Kirsten or Sheena or Morag.
But I still don't like the name she gave me!

Deemented · 24/07/2009 12:00

My mother wanted to call me Moira until my aunt pointed out that Moira, with my last name, would bear an uncanny resemblance to a notorious mass murderer. If i'd been a boy i would have been Stuart.

SOLOisMeredithGrey · 24/07/2009 11:26

MamaLarazou, I can only think of Summer, Harmony or Honey too...

When I was about 8 I loved the name Glenda and wanted to change my name to that! it was after a cousins wife and she was just sooooo pretty!

daizydoo · 24/07/2009 08:29

I was going to be called Wendy, but thankfully my parents realised my initials would have been WC!

GoldenSnitch · 24/07/2009 08:29

My name has been on here too as a totally boring one It's Ok though, I agree.

My Mum got herself into a pickle as she insisted that all our first names neded in 'ah' and our middle names began with 'c' - which is fine, until you get to your 4th child and the options are running out!!

Luckily, child 4 was a boy and narrowly escaped spending is life as Dinah Carol!!!

I wanted Hepzibah cause I was 6 and it was my favourite book

ProfYaffle · 24/07/2009 08:21

If I had been a boy I would've been Colin Eli . My actual name has already been mentioned on this thread

RustyBear · 24/07/2009 08:14

My mum really wanted to call my older sister Elizabeth after her mum, until my Dad pointed out that if they then had another girl his mother would create
merry hell if she wasn't called after her. As Dad's mother was called Gladys, luckily my mum agreed.

Barstardio · 24/07/2009 08:05

Oh Buda I'd have been a Robert.

Flower3545 · 24/07/2009 08:05

Not me but my poor sister was almost, very nearly, called Esmerelda.

My dad was adamant thats what he wanted her called

My mum was horrified and many tears and pleading later he gave in and agreed to a more "acceptable" name for her.

My mums main weapon was saying to dad

"imagine its tea-time and she's out playing at the end of the street, now call her in for tea"

Buda · 24/07/2009 07:58

I was going to be David. Then they were stuck for a few days.

girlsyearapart · 24/07/2009 07:55

Grace - love the name dd1 has it as her middle name- but I am so unGraceful it's not even funny. The other choice was Fleur.. Thank God my Dad and 12 year old sister took over the naming..
FunnyPeculiar- you just brought back evil thoughts of school biology lessons.
Nooka- I have taught a few Cosmos (and a Nemo)

MamaLazarou · 24/07/2009 07:44

I was nearly a Melanie, which would have been rather apt as I have had enormous knockers since the age of 12.

I've tried and tried but can't think of a Beach Boys song title which is also a name. Sunflower? Surfer Girl?

Astrophe · 24/07/2009 07:02

My Dad wanted me to be Barbra, after his Ex GF . If I were a boy I would have been Michael.

BlueKangerooWonders · 24/07/2009 06:29

My dad wanted Doris (after Doris Day). V lucky escape there...

YeahBut · 24/07/2009 06:13

Mona - Mum talked sense into Dad and I'm actually an unusual gaelic name which I love.

nooka · 24/07/2009 06:00

My parents were keen on Cosmo if I had been a boy. I'm not so sure about that one. They did choose a very unusual name for me which I love.

Ozziegirly · 24/07/2009 03:18

I was nearly Sarah or Nicola.

My parents are really too normal.

I bet you could all guess the year of my birth, purely from those names.

(would have been Christopher or Andrew if a boy).

SOLOisMeredithGrey · 24/07/2009 02:21

Linda. My aunt wanted mum to call me Linda and I'm so not a Linda...

Mum wanted to call me Dawn Miriam(Miriam was her mums name)which I've always loved, but she called me something completely different and although I hated it growing up, I actually love it now. Thanks mum!

thumbwitch · 24/07/2009 01:55

nurses in my mum's maternity hospital were at her to call me Anastasia. Or Annamaria (possibly Anna Maria). Thank goodness she didn't.

Mind you I didn't like my name much when growing up - I wanted to be Stella. Equally glad now that I am not Stella (actually I was glad by the time I was 15 and met the year below mine's year bully - called Stella!)

WickedWench · 24/07/2009 01:54

I got the name they planned on, which I do like. But, if my brother had been a girl he'd have been called Penelope. He's very glad he was born a boy.

I know how you pronounce it, of course I do, but why do I always want to say Pennieloap when I see it written down??

seaturtle · 24/07/2009 01:43

My first name is a month of the year. My father picked the name and wanted to add the day and the year- my entire date of birth as my given name. I'm not kidding here. I come from an eccentric family! My mother put her foot down, and years later I thanked her for it.