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.

Apparently I was nearly Beverley. Don't like it. Don't like the name I've got either, and I'm 61!

Kellie or Sandie, with those spellings. I like my actual name much better than either!

Fiona. And yet they ended up naming me a very 80s popstar name- talk about different tastes. I'm not a fan of either of them to be fair.

If I was a boy initially I would have been Guy but as my due date was very close to bonfire night, they settled on Ross.

Not a fan of my parents tastes 😁

I was almost Julia. My sister was almost Julia. My mum is upset that even though she now has four granddaughters and a great granddaughter she still doesn't have a Julia.

@ToilenStripes Emily Claire...... Don't tell me your actual name is Charlotte 😱 (Charlotte Sometimes)

I'm not sure what I might have been called. I do know that there were some pretty awful boys' names floating about for me and Dsis that had disappeared by the time DB was born, thank goodness

Susan.
Luckily my cousin was born first and 'stole' the name.

Andrew if I was a boy, but as a girl I was Emmalynn-Marie. I’m just Emma these days or Mama...

Bridget. Which I think is lovely!

Sarah, and had my DH been a girl his parents had also chosen Sarah. A bit meh, but our actual names aren't particularly exciting either.

My children were almost Moya, Artemis or Lorelei (girl choices) or Eric, Titus, Stellan or Winston (boys choices), I do wonder what they'll think of those vs what they were actually called.

Imogen, Verity or Gertie but my Dad wanted to use the first name of a female relative on the family tree.

Someone I know was going to be called Pamela but when her dad went to register it he wasn’t sure how to spell it so he called her Susan instead.

Sarah - Mum's choice - my father said no apparently because paired with my surname it sounded like a servant 😵
Father's choice was Dorcas 😳

Rachael,Rebecca or Ruth

Jennifer

I was going to be a Ruth, but thankfully they changed their mind. I still have it as a middle name and I loathe it...sorry to any Ruth's out there!

Me too - or at least my grandmother campaigned for Ruth as a first name (it is also my middle name).

My parents almost called me Stephanie but my surname begins with F and they thought it was too many 'eff' sounds.

my mom wanted to call me Stephanie and my dad said it was too uppity so I got called Isabel , but named my daughter Stephanie

Daniel... I'm female.

80's child.
I was going to be Emma. I much prefer the name I was actually given though.
If I was a boy I was going to be Paul.

Patricia or Imogen ( because it can mean last daughter and I was the last child). Wouldnt have minded Imogen but am so so so glad I don't get called Pat or Trisha (sorry if you are called Pat or Trisha)

Nikita

Would have been Lewis if I had been a boy

DS would have been Olivia if he'd been a girl

Sheila, I was born in the late 80s. So pleased they didn’t go with that!

Loretta 😳 Safe to say it would not have suited me

I was nearly felicity and nicknamed Fliss

Emma - and I have always wished they had chosen it as I never really liked my name. My name has caused me a lot of grief in the past 😔