Names before original names?

[ellalouise90]

Just wondering as I thought this would be quite fun to do... what where all your names going to be before your parents picked the names they did, my name is Ella however they didn't come up with the name Ella until I was a day old! Before this I was going to be
Girl
Ellie
Elle
Emma
Tallulah😂
Tilly

Boy
Jack
Jackson
Lucas
Steven
Daniel

What where you going to be called?

I was going to be:

Felicity
Melissa

Gregory

My parents liked...

Holly
Rebekah
Fern
Alix
Faye
Annabelle

Thomas
Alexander
Callum

Lara or Nigel

Cherry as there were cherry blossom trees everywhere.....
Jemima.....would have loved this

Kelly or Jeb

I was going to be Zoe if a girl (which I would have loved) or James if I was a boy.

Georgina, Ailish, or... Adam

Millicent
Claudia

My name is Alice

I was meant to be Georgina NN George or Charlotte NN Charlie. Absolutely would have loved one of those names but my dad changed his mind when I was born. James if I was a boy and they used it for my brother a year later

I was going to be Alana after my dad.
They went with Clare instead. The elderly gentleman up the road thought my name was Gertrude. I answer to anything.

A boys name wasn't decided. Although my dad liked Carl.

Good thread

They were set on Sophie until the next door neighbours brought home an Alsatian Pup and had named her the same thing, My Gransh wanted to Call me April.
They went with Leah

Michelle or William

Felicity
Heather
Katriona

Charlotte or Richard

(I don’t have either of these names, and nor do any of my 3 younger siblings).

I was going to be Harry if I was a boy (although I suspect my parents would have had a re-think as I was born the day after Prince Harry. Probably would have ended up Alastair.

List for a girl was:

Leonie
Camilla
Patience

Charlotte or Christopher. Neither of these names were used for me or my brother!

Amy or Eleanor. (I have a similar sort of name).

I don't really think about my name at all though. I like it but I just don't ever think about it!

And DH would have been Gemma. He also had his mn as his first name to begin with but then his parents decided to swap the names as they thought his mn suited him better.

My parents wanted to call me Sarah. Unfortunately for them, my cousin was born a few weeks before me & was given the name Sarah. My parents decided there couldn't be two Sarahs with the same surname in the family so they chose another name. I don't think they actually liked their second choice much as they've always called me by my middle name. Thank goodness, as I don't like it either.

I was going to be either Zillah or Thirzah, or Samuel if I was a boy.
They actually named me after a dog.

There seem to be a lot of potential Charlottes! I actually am a Charlotte but was nearly Danielle - I got called Charlie as a bump though and it stuck.

Was going to be Morag. Thank fuck my mum intervened.

Jodie or nadine
Samuel if I was a boy which they also didn't use for my brother who came along 12 & 3 weeks later!

I was wanted to use Jody for DS3 but DP vetoed it saying it's a girls name

I ended up with an unusual/made up to them name instead!

Elizabeth
Robert

I would have been Vanessa - my mum liked names beginning with V!

DH would’ve been Holly had he been a girl