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.

Emma

Dawn 🤢

Hannah. Lovely name but there were 3 in my year at school so glad I got a different name.

Naomi - hideous.

Tracey or Joanne
my actual name is much posher and always abbreviated!

I would have been Truly ( as in Truly Scrumptious from ChittgChitty Bang Bang). I would have quite liked that.
Instead I have a timeless classic. There were 8 in my year at secondary school.

If I'd been a boy, Geraint.

Bernard if I had been a boy.

Chloe or Grace.

My Dad wanted Lisa Marie after Lisa Marie Presley

Martina, which I wouldn't have minded. They named me a popular girls name in IK, but I changed it myself when I was quite young to the Gaelic spelling which I much prefer.

Typo, UK not IK

If I were born a boy, I'd have been called Barnaby.

Which is a perfectly decent name. I think I'd have made a good Barney.

@Abigail47 can I ask what book please? Sounds interesting!

My mum was so convinced i was a girl that she didn't even pick a boys name for me. She picked a girls name and that's what I'm called. I've seen bits of her diary that she kept when she was pregnant and I'm referred to as my name the whole time.

I love this!! Im1975 august 26th. I had no name, nurses suggested mums name (gran) Elsie-Ann, nope! Other grans name? Mabel? Nope! So my mum thought paula, my dad wanted Jane, then suggested Pauline and then they agreed on Paula, so dad trots down to register my name and registers Paula-Jane

Gareth but I can’t out with the wrong bits. My mum was convinced I was a boy…

Helen. They were going to call me Nellie!

I actually was called a different name for the first few weeks of life. I was Julie - my sister's choice apparently. But my Mum just didn't take to it and said it didn't suit me so she chose my actual name just before they ran out of time to register my birth.
I 'm glad. Julie isn't awful but my name suits me much better and I was the only one in my year at school whereas there were lots of Julies.

My dad wanted to call me Theodora or Alison. Not exactly the same vibe! If I'd been a boy, I would have been Richard.

Was going to be either Anthony or Antonia. Arrived as a girl but on the way to register the name my older sister insisted I was called something else entirely and I was. That's big sisters for you.

Rosalind 🙄

I know for a fact that one of my aunts picked my name because my parents couldn't agree on the French version or the English version of the name they had in mind (think Louise/ Louisa). The name she picked was the name of the saint whose feast day I was born on, and it was already taken by two other women in the family.

Stephanie.

@Littlebitpsycho
@BanditofBrisbane why the 🤢 emoji for chloe?

Because I don't like it at all, it wouldn't have suited me and culturally at the time it would have made me stick out like a sore thumb.

Chantelle marie.
I'm actually Rowena- dad named me after the aussie soap actress, rowena Wallace,who he fancied. She played nasty Patricia in sons and daughters!