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

My DF wanted to call me Mitzi, if I was a girl .

My DM wanted to call me Timothy if I was a boy.

My DM got to name me in the end and named me after a character in her favourite book. I like my name but it is quite dated.

Heidi!!

(I don't share this info with many people.)

(That's an amazing story, hopeforthebest. I expect you would get into no end of trouble for that nowadays!)

Gareth if I was a boy as it would have given me the name of a famous rugby player in the late 70's.

They also liked Jennifer for a girl and although I quite like it now I was dead chuffed not to have it growing up.

My middle name is Rose, which I hated so much when I was younger that I barely told a soul. Now, of course, its lovely and I would consider it for a duaghter

Lynette or Tania for a girl, both hideous! Adam(after Adam Faith) or Daniel for a boy.
Instead I ended up being one of five girls called Nicola in my class at school. Don't really like it but better than the other girl names.

Carla (yuk), Karl if I had been a boy. Thankfully my Grandads friend suggested my name to my Mum and she finally saw sense and used that one.
My DH was going to be called Winston cos his parents thought he looked like Churchill when he was just born .

Amaryllis - ugh!

And Carol-Ann - double ugh!

I ended up with safe and boring, but considering the alternatives, I'm way happy.

i was very nearly a Tracy!
whilst my name is horrific i am very very glad my nan stepped in.

I was always going to be Gemma Louise, but when I was born I just didnt look like one apparently! I ended up with Lindsay Anne - its vile! Would have prefered Gemma!

We were going to call DS Vinnie at one point until we realised he wasn't an Italian gangster.

I'm Sarah Alice in the end (Alice after maternal grandmother) - mum wanted Brynleigh after a friend of hers that passed away whose surname was Brenlee. I begged her to call me Brynleigh for about 6 months when I was 10 and found out this knowledge.

For a boy I would have been Matthew Kenneth.

I was almosst a Veronica!! Awful, not me at all! Always hated the name I do have as I was named after a character in the book my mum was reading when I was born! When I was little I always wanted to be called Francesca!

If I was a boy I would have been either Christopher or Damien, thankfully my mum re watched 'The Omen' whilst preganant and it put her off Damien!!

On another note my Grandma should have been Marianne but the registrar got it wrong & she is Marion. Shame, I think Marianne is lovely & dearly wanted it for our DD but DH said no!

I was going to be Claire but mum said i just looked like a Sophie If i were a boy i was going to be called Lewis.

I was supposed to be Martha but my Mum palled up with another woman in the hospital who managed to give birth slightly before her, and she named her little girl Martha. They really got on so Mum thought it would be stupid to have two the same (for the future - and we remained friends for years, so just as well) so plumped on mine (how you get where I am from Martha I have no idea, but there you are.
And if I were a boy I was to have been Edward. Nothing against Edward or Martha but I prefer my name, though it was waaaay out in the 1970s (top 5 or 10 now).

HeadFairy, I was due to be born on 14 July too. Mum claims she was going to call me Lafayette (as a middle name?), but I arrived 1h 20 mins late, so didn't make it.

She might be making it up though....

My little X chromosone saved me from being ... Ignatius Clovis!

Keith if a boy?

and my grannies were competing over me being named after them
Agnes or Marge

Have an unusual name, never liked it as a child but as an adult have grown into it

I would've been Barbara Ann if my Dad had got his way (after some song or other), and Mum wanted to call me Eilidh - the gaelic for Helen. So they compromised on something that is nothing like either of those names

Janet......My mum was Janet and my Dad and older siblings suggested it for me when they were running out of ideas; thankfully mum put her foot down!

I would have been Robert if I was a boy as I was due on 25th January! Thankfully I was late or I might have been Roberta

no offence intended to Janets and Robertas out there

victoria or iain.
my dad didn't like victoria so changed it to heather instead.

Caroline or Debbie, ended up with neither of those two. Not sure what I would have been called if I'd been a boy.

If I was a boy, my parents were going to call me Dorian after 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'.

Good thing I was a girl and got a normal name.

Alicia