What was your parents other choices of names for you!

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The name my dad wanted to call me was Deborah, as a kid I would have preferred this name but now im not convinced though it's a lovely name. What about you guys?

my mum wanted to call me Lucy, my dad wanted to call me Laura

I ended up being Claire Louise

Blanche!!!!! Thank goodness they didn't pick it!

My mum wanted to call me Briony or Stephany, my Dad chose something else entirely! Briony would have been nice... If I'd been a boy I would have been Craig.

I was sooooo nearly a Ruby, but ended up with one of the most popular names of my generation. I think I would really suit Ruby, and have always been gutted they didn't use it (I don't really like my name)

Rachel. Andrew or Patrick for boys. I prefer the names they did give us!

my parents only had boys names as they were having twins and told 2 boys

suprise!!!!!!!!!

I would have been either Andrew or Christopher

My mum wanted to call me Katie, my dad wanted to call me Nora & my brother Basil

I was nearly Sally-Ann but my mum's friend nicked it first !

Peter for a boy and it had to be an L to match my sisters

Honey! My father vetoed it.

Wendy. I am eternally grateful that they were living in the States at the time and my mother thought the Americans pronounced it as "Windy". Thank God for the American accent.

If I'd been a boy, I would have been Thomas Philip James.

Other girl's name choices were Charlotte, Claire or Helena.

I was Abigail until I popped out, then my parents had a last-minute change of heart!

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If I'd been a boy, I'd have been called Brian! You might think I had a narrow escape, except they chose a worse girl's name for me that I can't reveal without outing myself.

If my mother had not vetoed my father's choices I would have been Hedwige or Marie-Caroline (I am grateful for the former but prefer the latter to my actual name)

Colin. Phew!

If I was a boy I was going to be Kevin and their alternate girls names were
Zoe and Mercedes! My mum still has the baby name book where she wrote her preferences.

I am Valerie
Mum wanted Sarah nn Sally but my Gran[also Sarah/Sally] said,'Oh you cant call her that.I know a Sally ***[surname] who is a bit simple
My Dad wanted Jennifer.

I'd have been James if I had been a boy.

If I were a boy I was to be Richard.

Laila and Patrick but my Dad wanted to name me after his Mum so vetoed Laila when I came out.

My dad was adamant I was going to be Blue or Porshus outs self
Thank Spiderman my mum put her foot down

My Mum wanted to call me Fanny

Luckily my Dad saw sense. Ta Dad

Some very amusing choices there lol! I have no idea what my mum and dad would have called me had I been male as they tended to only talk about names after the births of all us kids. It would I'm sure have been interesting though!

Grant or Paris Blue (boy), Blue or India Grey (girl).
Surprisingly my name is actually worse than all of them.

If I had been a boy I would have been Andrew. Rather more common than my actual name - they were braver for a girl.