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What were you almost named?

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KittyTwoShoes · 19/08/2010 22:35

Just thinking about how on earth anyone ever decides on a name for their child and wondered if anyone knows their parents' shortlists? I'm interested to see how they differ from the shortlists on here today.

I'm Katherine, but was almost Anastasia... DP was almost Morris(!).

So what were you nearly called?

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hester · 19/08/2010 22:37

Hedwig. Honestly.

SirBoobAlot · 19/08/2010 22:38

Natasha or Jessica So glad my parents went with Erika!!

AnnieLobeseder · 19/08/2010 22:38

I'm Deborah but was nearly Rachel or Rebecca. DD2 now has Rachel as a middle name to help DM feel better about her two other choices being 'wasted'!

I would probably have been OK with Rachel, but can't say I like Rebecca much. Not hugely keen on Deborah either though.... Confused

HowsTheSerenity · 19/08/2010 22:39

Camilla Margaret

or Nicholas James

tattycoram · 19/08/2010 22:39

Abigail. It would absolutely NOT have suited me.

KristinaM · 19/08/2010 22:40

Victoria or Stephanie

no idea why

TrinityRhino · 19/08/2010 22:40

I was almost natalie

its thanks to my dad that i'm not Smile

SparklyJules · 19/08/2010 22:40

Almost Gayle. It was demoted to middle name at 11th hour and replaced with 70s-tastic Julie.

SilveryMoon · 19/08/2010 22:40

My parents said they were going to call me Sarah-Jane.
They went with Nicola in the end which I much prefer

TheFallenMadonna · 19/08/2010 22:41

Colin.

Colin.

FranSanDisco · 19/08/2010 22:42

Lesley - get real mummio! Hmm It was the 60s so think she had smoked something.

SoMuchToBits · 19/08/2010 22:43

If I had been a boy I would have been Richard Paul. I'm a Heather. My grnadmother would have liked either me or my twin sister (who would have been a Clifford John if a boy)to have been a Charlotte. Neither of us were a Charlotte.

Lionstar · 19/08/2010 22:43

Donna. So glad my Mum over-ruled!

SecretNutellaFix · 19/08/2010 22:43

I was supposed to be a boy.

They were convinced. Until I arrived, revealing my true nature to the worldGrin

I was always going to have some variant of the names I am currently blessed with. It just took them the whole 6 weeks to decide.

Had I been a boy I would have been Michael James Edward Peter

spiderlight · 19/08/2010 22:44

Esther or Theodora. Or Richard Hmm

hester · 19/08/2010 22:44

I'm sorry, not one of you have beaten Hedwig. I claim the prize.

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KittyTwoShoes · 19/08/2010 22:45

Hedwig?!?! Wowzer.

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scurryfunge · 19/08/2010 22:45

I was going to be Emily.....that became the cat's name though before me.

LaDiDaDi · 19/08/2010 22:46

I would have been Carl Alder if I had been a boy.

Other options for girls names were, apparently, Coral or Deanne. Very pleased they went with my name Grin.

lifeas3plus1 · 19/08/2010 22:46

I was very nearly Kelly-Ann Marie.

How awful (sorry to anyone with this name)

Glad mom came round in time to tell my dad where to stick it. lol.

yoginipinkBikini · 19/08/2010 22:46

almost Miriam

superdragonmama · 19/08/2010 22:46

Laurence or Christopher - but I was, am, a girl

Please let me change my name to Hedwig Grin

Greensleeves · 19/08/2010 22:47

Amy

Really, really wouldn't have suited me

Fimbo · 19/08/2010 22:47

Heather, Fiona or Darrell. Could have coped with Heather or Fiona. But Darrell an well the name they gave me - urgh!

I would have been Craig Brian if I had been a boy.

hhg · 19/08/2010 22:47

Going to be Lorraine, Lesley or Gillian

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