What name might you have been called instead of the one you have now

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My DF wanted to call me Merlin if I was a boy and Gwenevere if I was a girl. My DM wanted Joseph for a boy and Abi-Jo for a girl. I ended up with Abi but secretly i'd have liked Gwenevere

Zoe / Jessie / Thomas

What's wrong with Kirsty??

I should have been Aurora but my Dad couldn't spell it, still pee'd off about that.Still have a hankering to be called Rory for short

they knew I was going to be a girl, being adopted has that advantage but I was very nearly Melody - thank feck I ended up with one that makes me sounds more like one of the Walton family members

Sophie or Saffron.

Would have been Thomas if i was a boy.

I was nearly a Victoria, which I prefer to my own name.

Cherry.

In honour of the blossom on the trees when I was born. I thank the good lord that one didn't pan out.

My dad has just come back from the states in the 60's and told mum he had the perfect name
Randy, apparently they had massive rows and i ended up being called Sarah.

I dread to think of the teasing i would have got as a teenager with that name.

If I'd been a boy I'd have been Quentin...

I was nearly Sylvia. Wouldn't have minded that but am happy with the (unusual but not made up)name they chose.

India, or Felix if I was a boy.

I was eventually named after one of my fathers ex girlfriends.

True true true

I was going to be Hugh if a boy, after my uncle. I think they thought about calling me Anna but instead I got that as a middle name.

If I had been born 29 minutes later, I would have been called Davey regardless of being a boy or a girl as both parents are david Bowie fans and 29 minutes later would have been his birthday.
They originally wanted Sarah-Jane for a girl, but settled on sonething else. Not really sure if I was a boy, my memory thinks they once told me I'd have been Tom, after my dad's goldfish......

Melanie

or Robert

Melvyn if i'd been a boy

If I'd been a boy, I'd have been Jonathan.
Not long after I was born a family moved in 2 doors down from us with 2 boys called [DB's name] and Jonathan so it was probably lucky that I wasn't a boy!!
They toyed with the idea of calling me Polly; quite glad they didn't

I was Jimmy the whole way through my dm's pregnancy, and would have been Jimmy had I been a boy. Was named after my dgm.

George

Richard, if a boy, despite the fact that it really didn't work with my parents' surname.

If I was a boy I was going to be called Curtis and if I was born in the month I was due, I would have been called Keyleigh

Philip or Sarah.

Dad decided I didnt look like a Sarah though.

I have 3 bros and a sis and none of them are called Philip or Sarah! (I am the eldest)

Stephanie but sister is called Caroline so parents felt they didn't want to copy the Monacos.

Or William but I'm female so that would have been weird

Was nearly a Natalie, and if male, Luke (80s child)