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

83 replies

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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zookeeper · 24/07/2009 00:42

Sheila.

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RachieB · 23/07/2009 23:36

I was almost Tracy !

skybright · 23/07/2009 23:28

I was meant to be Melody which might have been okay if i could sing even a little bit.

MumHadEnough · 23/07/2009 23:24

I was supposed to be Michelle, nowt wrong with that really but my name is nicer .

But no disrespect to any Michelles, as I have 7 friends called Michelle and every single one of them is lovely.

Kayteee · 23/07/2009 23:21

I escaped Zsa-Zsa.......nuff said.

Mammina · 23/07/2009 23:19

Morag! I hated my name growing up but it's miles better than Morag

wheresclaire · 23/07/2009 23:15

My Dad wanted Mandy. My mum said that people would call me "Randy Mandy", so they went with her choice.

sleepsforwimps · 23/07/2009 23:10

I was almost Lara, but my Great Aunt wanted me to be called Laura, so to save arguments my Mum called me something completly different. Even though I like my name, I would have preferred to have been a Lara.

whomovedmychocolate I went to school with a Tuesday, so there's more than one of them out there!

JodieO · 23/07/2009 23:08

If someone didn't like their name they can always change it, no big deal really. I was called Johanna Faith for a couple of months and had a birth certificate saying it, my mum then changed my name to what it is now.

bettythebuilder · 23/07/2009 23:06

if I was a boy, Dad wanted to call me Roger. Bearing in mind my maiden name was Moor, t'would not have been good.

hester · 23/07/2009 23:01

If I told you my surname, you'd know just how bad...

funnypeculiar · 23/07/2009 22:24

Dunno, Hedwig is pretty bad....

Wheelybug · 23/07/2009 22:18

oh didn't see your post MrsMattie - snap !

Wheelybug · 23/07/2009 22:17

I was almost Angharad. Quite a nice name but given my surname was impronouncable/spellable and I was in England it would have been a nightmare.

hester · 23/07/2009 22:17

I was almost Hedwig [shudder]. It is a family name, but that's really no excuse.

I was convinced I would win this thread, but I think funnypeculiar has got first prize.

Stannie, I know somebody (yes ok, she is family) called Candida Piel.

RoseBlossoms · 23/07/2009 22:14

Rita!

funnypeculiar · 23/07/2009 22:12

Thankfully my Dad was over-ruled before I became Drosophila (latin name for those little fruit flies)

FaintlyMacabre · 23/07/2009 22:11

Cressaid. Not even Cressida. Luckily my Mum put her foot down.

Ewe · 23/07/2009 22:08

I was almost a Raquel.

MamaHobgoblin · 23/07/2009 22:04

I was nearly Matthew. Wouldn't have suited me.

DjangoTheDjinn · 23/07/2009 21:20

I like all of these names.

I would have been Flora if my Mum had chosen which is fine.

Dad chose and I'm named after a Beach Boys' song. Everybody sings it to me. It stopped being funny in 1985.

MrsMattie · 23/07/2009 21:16

I was almost Angharad. Thank fuck.

Bellsa · 23/07/2009 20:32

Jemima. My Dad talked (some) sense into her.

girlandboy · 23/07/2009 20:32

Eric!

Thank goodness I was a girl.

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