I am everlastingly grateful that my mum was prevented from calling me...

[GrendelsMum]

Rainbow.

Really. I don't like the name she did give me, but at least once a week I think 'this job would be so much harder if my name was Rainbow'. (Though perhaps it would have given me a tougher personality?)

Is anyone else pleased to have missed out on a name?

Caveat to all Rainbows / mums of Rainbows on here - I'm sure you / your daughter will love it.

I was nearly Elspeth. And for years I thought "thank God I wasn't Elspeth." Now I really like the name, more so than my own. But at least I'm not Rainbow.

It might have made you more interesting.

Not that you're boring!! It just might have given you a different, more exciting character.

Tell that to my friend Tuesday (no seriously, I think her parents were drunk for much of the 60s!)

Daisy May.

I'm just not a Daisy. Or maybe if I were Daisy I'd be all sweetness and light and giggly. I still woulnd't be blonde though.

Candace here. Phew!

Candida ...

She blames the hormomes.. She wanted to be able to call me Candi

My dad wanted Hermione or Hepzibah for me and Jasper for my brother. My mother put her foot down and thankfully saw through his hormonal whims.

Eric!

Thank goodness I was a girl.

Jemima. My Dad talked (some) sense into her.

I was almost Angharad. Thank fuck.

I like all of these names.

I would have been Flora if my Mum had chosen which is fine.

Dad chose and I'm named after a Beach Boys' song. Everybody sings it to me. It stopped being funny in 1985.

I was nearly Matthew. Wouldn't have suited me.

I was almost a Raquel.

Cressaid. Not even Cressida. Luckily my Mum put her foot down.

Thankfully my Dad was over-ruled before I became Drosophila (latin name for those little fruit flies)

Rita!

I was almost Hedwig [shudder]. It is a family name, but that's really no excuse.

I was convinced I would win this thread, but I think funnypeculiar has got first prize.

Stannie, I know somebody (yes ok, she is family) called Candida Piel.

I was almost Angharad. Quite a nice name but given my surname was impronouncable/spellable and I was in England it would have been a nightmare.

oh didn't see your post MrsMattie - snap !

Dunno, Hedwig is pretty bad....

If I told you my surname, you'd know just how bad...

if I was a boy, Dad wanted to call me Roger. Bearing in mind my maiden name was Moor, t'would not have been good.

If someone didn't like their name they can always change it, no big deal really. I was called Johanna Faith for a couple of months and had a birth certificate saying it, my mum then changed my name to what it is now.

I was almost Lara, but my Great Aunt wanted me to be called Laura, so to save arguments my Mum called me something completly different. Even though I like my name, I would have preferred to have been a Lara.

whomovedmychocolate I went to school with a Tuesday, so there's more than one of them out there!