What were you nearly called?

[Abigail47]

I was nearly called Deborah or Scarlett.

They were in my parents top three names.

Then they finally chose my name.

I feel a bit of a connection to those other two names.

Neil 🤣

If my younger brother had been born first, and then I'd come along, I would have been Hazel. I love it, but suffer from Hirsutism, and the thought of being bullied as Hairy Hazel I find really upsetting.

Karen or Susan
I was born 1978 , the same year as the first ivf baby , hence me being named Louise

Reagan (from the girl in the excorsist!!) or Allana. Alan if I was a boy. Ronald Reagan was the president at the time I was born and this out mum off, also my nana suggested I'd get called Ray gun. She didn't go with Alanna as my nana said it would be horrible in a dundee accent (mom had a beautiful South African/Scottish hybrid accent)

Charlotte

I am adopted and my mother always said that she'd always wanted a girl called [my name.] She said it was a family name and I never questioned it. Isn't not really? When I thought it through. I'm the only person with this name - one person had it as a middle name.

I found out that my birth mother subsequently went on to have two more daughters (both kept). Her first child born after me was also a girl and named Jane [my name.] Her last child was also a girl I'd named [my name] As her actual first name..

When I spoke to the adoption agency they said she probably wasn't told my name. I think I don't believe this. It too much of a coincidence and I can see from family tree research [my name] isn't a family name either.

I have never retrieved my original birth certificate but I have always felt drawn to the name Jennifer ( which would have been very common in my era!)

Maybe I will one day..

No idea why there are gin bottles there! Should be "x"s!

Amelia Mary Rose...

Philippa or Tamsin.

Nancy or Joseph

I was going to be called Helen or Ellen but dad’s family vetoed it. Ended up with what at the time was a naf 1960s name that is still out of fashion. I changed it as soon as I was 18. Found out much later doing my family tree that in my mum’s family Ellen had been a family name (which my mum knew nothing about), when I changed my name I added in Ellen as a middle name I’ve always felt fate clearly intervened here some how

Mairead. Ma opted for something even more Gaelic and unpronounceable in the end.