What where you "almost" named.

[rayoflightboy]

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.

Jemima after my grandmother.
I'm so glad they came to their senses.

Jordan 🤢 so glad my mum went away from that one!

Dorcas.

Mandy or Amanda. I'm so pleased that they eventually named me Julia

Rachel - 1980s

I suspect, had I been a boy, I would have been Albert after my dad. Ghastly name! DM wanted to call me Morag, which I detest, but DF wore her down and I am called after DM - which has issues all of its own, as what I am called is not my own, personal, name, as it was drummed into me that I am called after DM. I loved DM hugely, but I don't have my own name. My middle name was chosen for the aunt who died just a few days before my birth, and so it isn't my own name either.

Neither of my kids are called after anybody they or I know!

Mavis 😱

(Sorry, Mavises 😊)

Richard. If I'd have been a boy obviously

Emma, but my surname begins with a vowel so my mum didn't want me going through life called "Emmur Edwards".