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.

If I had been a boy, I would have been Sean. They wondered, later on, if that would have been a good idea, although my DF is Irish, they felt there was quite a bit of prejudice in the south east in the mid 60's.

Mum liked Cheryl but it would have been aliterative. Dad fancied calling me Evangeline, and Great Grandma wanted me to be called after her- Alice whch was not popular at the time.

Darrell. After Darrell Rivers. Instead I got a common name because my Mum wasn't brave enough in 1970 to stick to something unusual. My siblings got very unusual names mind you. I have always hated my name and now it's meme'd I'm constantly reminded how awful it is.

Ulrike. My mum was German. I ended up with a very English name.
I was so glad as a kid .

I was supposed to be Sarah, but my cousin arrived a few weeks before me and was called Sarah. They couldn't have two Sarahs with the same surname in the family so they chose something else for me. I think my parents must have disliked it as much as I do because I've always been known by my middle name. Which I like, fortunately.

@JohnLapsleyParlabane

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Rebecca 🤮

Laura, but my Dad didn’t like it. I would have preferred it to the very classic name I have now which I have shortened.

Mum wanted to call me Keir (even though I'm female) but Dad said it was far too socialist (even though they were both union reps at the time). I was given another Irish name instead, a dreadful old fashioned one which everyone tends to shorten to Jezza. Which is even more socialist.

My Mum had some very exotic ideas, the least worst might be Coral. Apols to any Corals out there.
Dad insisted on something more sensible. I have a very sensible name.

My Dad named me after an actress he liked. He also like Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

I was almost called Tracey

Victoria. I would have preferred that to what I did get lumbered with, but it would not have suited me at all.

Lucy.

Rachel. But my grandmother named her new dog Rachel just before I was born

Jennifer, rebecca or harriet. Child of the 80s. They ended up going with an even more old fashioned name

I was almost Alison. Which I quite like. But my dad heard my name on the radio on the way to get me and my mum from the hospital and asked her what she thought. So they changed their minds.

Had I been a boy I would have been Nicholas.

Sian or Jade

Darleen.

In 1980. In fucking Brentford. Thank god they changed their minds.

Blodwyn or Bethania were my dads choices (yes, hes welsh) mum got to the registry office first so i got a totally different and unusual name

If I'd been a boy I'd be Stuart!!! Thank god I wasn't.

Morven, after the mountain in Caithness where my mum spent a lot of time, it's also the name of a Gaelic mythical figure.

I hated the name as a kid but think I might like it now.

Philomena

I don't dislike it but prefer the name I was given (at the suggestion of my GM only 60 mins before my DP's registered my birth).

Cedric if I'd been a boy.

I mean. Honestly. Cedric. My dsis had an equally bad alternative male name.
Thankfully for my dbro they'd changed their taste by the time he came along and he has one of those basic traditional names that there were four boys in every class named the same.

My mum wanted to call me Grace. I was born in 85 so would have been considered a proper old lady name when I was school. I got saddled with Claire instead.

How times have changed lol