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.

Almost Brooke, but surname is also Br- so they said it would have been a mouthful. I would have been okay with that!

Apparently Kimberly was also a contender. I don't think I'd have made a very good Kimberly!

Gertrude, after a great aunt. Fortunately, they didn't in the end.

My sister was always going to be Charles, right up to the point she was born and turned out not to be a boy after all. My parents had no girls' names ready, they had been so convinced she was going to be a boy.

Mum wanted to call me Constance
Dad wanted Porche

They are quite different people, it didn't last long!

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 😔

Me too! I’ve always hated my name, and when I saw an Emma on telly when I was a child I thought “I’d like that name!” (it wasn’t common amongst my peer group in 70’s Scotland).
A couple of years ago my mum told me that she couldn’t decide between my horrible name and Emma. My horrible name won 😞.

Melanie
Before I was born some one told my mum they hated it. I'm grateful to that person whoever they are as I love my name and not something you would expect from my traditional parents
I do wonder what my children will think of their names and if they prefer any of our other choices or be massively relieved

Alana - Something about it translating to little darling! I like my name so glad it wasn't chosen although I don't mind the name!

Jasmine, I much prefer my actual name!

Rebecca

Thirza or Zillah. Samuel if I was a boy. They actually named me after a dog they knew.

My parents say their girl name was always their first choice and it's my name but if I had been a boy I would have been called Andrew. My brother was born 3 years later and they'd gone off it so hes called something else.

Mhairi, it's my middle name instead.

Pamela. There's a cassette tape somewhere with my mum and her sister reading out the list of names, with surname, and having a giggle. It's so sweet.

Giselle! I'm not French and I couldn't have carried it off.
I'm not keen on my actual name, poor mum chose an unusual one that became popular and "naff" about 16 years later. Fortunately I think she was oblivious and thought she'd done good.

My mother really likes my names and used them for her dolls and cat as well as her eldest. There was no alternative even considered.

Doesn’t make me feel special.

I was to be called Melanie but my aunt said reminded her of a classmate that was always sickly and frail so I was named after an actress who my mum watched on telly while waiting for me to be born.

Jemima. Which I much prefer to my very boring 80’s name!

Louisa. But my dad is dyslexic and would have struggled spelling it. So I became Emma (although he sometimes addresses my birthday cards to Emam
I’ve grew up wishing I was Louisa as every other bloody girl in my school was Emma. Even now I’m never the only one in work, groups etc.

If I were a boy I would have been called Gareth

Anna-Maria

After both grandmothers (Anne and Marie)

My mum was 18 so..

Luckily I wasn’t called that. Instead I was named after a celebrity my dad had a crush on at the time

Tina not even Christina just Tina thankfully it was changed last minute it sounds like a noise and not an actual name !

Earl If I had been a boy.

Pamela but my mum refused!

Juliet - but my parents changed the order round so it is now my middle name. And I'm relieved because if you say 'Juliet' people make stupid comments about Romeo!

Porsche (dads choice) or Ashleigh (mums choice). Thankfully they compromised on my (floral) name which I quite like, and I'm not named after a car.

@MyBlueMoonbeam I was nearly Dorcas Cora

Instead I'm complicated-Gaelic-first-name made-up-middle-name

Nicholas, but I turned out a girl.