What where you "almost" named.

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Mine was Claire,it was on the radio when I was born.
Luckily I wasn't called it as there where loads of them about.

Flora, Virginia or Charlotte. I would have liked Charlotte. I don't have a middle name but if I could chose to have Charlotte as mine I would!

Stephanie

Not too bad, I'd have called myself Steph

Almost named Charlotte so I could be Charlie for short after my dad. Wish that was my name. I hate my name!

I was nearly Diana as the Paul Anka song ‘Diana’ was in the charts at the time of the discussions!
I ended up being quite premature and caused a right panic at the time, Diana was forgotten and I ended up with a Christmas-time name as that’s when I was due. Got Diane as a middle name though... very mid-1960s names.
My Ds was going to be Zoe, Sophie or Josephine if he was a girl... but Dh got the boys choice.
I always wanted to be called something more exotic, the 1960s names were really dull! I had a little victory in my own way... my ddogs have had the names I always wanted... Cleo and Isabel😄

I was nearly called Megan. I remember being pleased when I was a teenager in the 90s they didn't call me it because I would have been called 'Mystic Meg'.

Ang Harad. My parents are Welsh but as we lived in South England they thought people would struggle with it. They went for a more mainstream Welsh name in the end which I'm now grateful for

Heather. I'm Scottish but was given an alternative Scottish name. I do like Heather though!

Lindsey.

Claire for me also. I prefer it to my own name ( born 1978 ) but i often laugh when I think about what my mum would have been called if she were a boy which was Wolfgang late dgm was German and thankfully had 3 daughters.

I don't know about any other girl names they were considering, but if I'd been born a boy they were going to name me Dustin. Yuck.

Lotus. Never liked my actual, less unusual name and I don’t know if I would have liked being a Lotus better. My husband and I both don’t really like our names and never use them with each other in daily life.

Heidi

Born in 73 and so Hi de Hi would have been the bane of my life at school. Very grateful they went for a name that, although popular (in the top 20 for about 25 years), never got me any ribbing.

David

I would have been 'Betty', which I frankly think I'd now rock at 37!... But would have been frankly terrible as a child! I was instead bestowed 3 names (all very long), and I always struggled to fit in the boxes on official form. Although Dds friend has five names?!!! Which I feel who could be arsed to remember all that? I also have a friend whose middle name is 'poseidon' 😳... They decline to ever use it

Jolene. My mum was a big Dolly fan.

I have no idea what I would have been for a girl but my boys names would have been either Ray John. Ray was dad's best man who died tragically very young and John I have no idea. I am, as it is, very happy with my name and on the baby board it seems it might become a bit more popular 😁

Stephen. Thanks fully I was a girl!
I was told this story by a friend at college (names changed). He was meant to be called Daniel Robert. His father went to register the birth and came home telling his mum that he’d changed his mind on the way to the registers office and the baby was now Jonathan Martin. So not even similar and not discussed before, apparently.
Needless to say his mum went to register the births of his siblings!!!

I was called Wendy for the first 2 days of my life. Midwife was doing the rounds one day and asked mum "How's little Wendy today?" and mum replied "she's called Ruth now".
This was early 70's. I'm glad she did change her mind but it's a bit of a leap from Wendy to Ruth!

If I'd been a boy dad wanted to name me Willard after a road he used to cycle past on his way to work. A few years ago I came across a German cabin crew chap whose name badge said Willyhard. Just before the flight took off he changed it for one that said Will

frenchfancie my dad was meant to be called Brian, but my nan was poorly after the birth so my grandad went to register him, and called him a relatively unusual Welsh name (with Brian as the middle name). My nan went mad and when born later on, neither my aunt and uncle have any nod to their Welsh heritage, with names that were top 10 in the years they were born

Mind you, these are the grandparents who sent my dad to school then moved house, so when he came home for lunch someone else was moving in... and he didn't know where the new house was (same village but few streets away)

It was a coin toss between Astrid and Helga. I was called neither.

Shirley, this was in the mid 70’s. My dad liked it.

Mhairi, this was late 70s. My parents are Scottish and they worried that it wouldn't be easily pronounceable in the country we lived in.

I think it is lovely though!

Imogen or Charlotte- I love both these names and would have been perfectly happy with either. In fact I think Imogen would suit me more than my actual name

Michelle , glad I wasn't as there were loads at school. It's also my cousins name.
Instead they chose a name they heard on the radio apparently and thought it was great and quite posh.
Everyone always spelt it wrong, pronounced it wrong, wrote all the wrong letters, said it was Scottish, said it was Welsh and it was quite an unusual name back then, isn't as unusual now, I've only met one other though.