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.

My Dad wanted Mandy. My mum said that people would call me "Randy Mandy", so they went with her choice.

Morag! I hated my name growing up but it's miles better than Morag

I escaped Zsa-Zsa.......nuff said.

I was supposed to be Michelle, nowt wrong with that really but my name is nicer .

But no disrespect to any Michelles, as I have 7 friends called Michelle and every single one of them is lovely.

I was meant to be Melody which might have been okay if i could sing even a little bit.

I was almost Tracy !

Sheila.

My first name is a month of the year. My father picked the name and wanted to add the day and the year- my entire date of birth as my given name. I'm not kidding here. I come from an eccentric family! My mother put her foot down, and years later I thanked her for it.

I got the name they planned on, which I do like. But, if my brother had been a girl he'd have been called Penelope. He's very glad he was born a boy.

I know how you pronounce it, of course I do, but why do I always want to say Pennieloap when I see it written down??

nurses in my mum's maternity hospital were at her to call me Anastasia. Or Annamaria (possibly Anna Maria). Thank goodness she didn't.

Mind you I didn't like my name much when growing up - I wanted to be Stella. Equally glad now that I am not Stella (actually I was glad by the time I was 15 and met the year below mine's year bully - called Stella!)

Linda. My aunt wanted mum to call me Linda and I'm so not a Linda...

Mum wanted to call me Dawn Miriam(Miriam was her mums name)which I've always loved, but she called me something completely different and although I hated it growing up, I actually love it now. Thanks mum!

I was nearly Sarah or Nicola.

My parents are really too normal.

I bet you could all guess the year of my birth, purely from those names.

(would have been Christopher or Andrew if a boy).

My parents were keen on Cosmo if I had been a boy. I'm not so sure about that one. They did choose a very unusual name for me which I love.

Mona - Mum talked sense into Dad and I'm actually an unusual gaelic name which I love.

My dad wanted Doris (after Doris Day). V lucky escape there...

My Dad wanted me to be Barbra, after his Ex GF . If I were a boy I would have been Michael.

I was nearly a Melanie, which would have been rather apt as I have had enormous knockers since the age of 12.

I've tried and tried but can't think of a Beach Boys song title which is also a name. Sunflower? Surfer Girl?

Grace - love the name dd1 has it as her middle name- but I am so unGraceful it's not even funny. The other choice was Fleur.. Thank God my Dad and 12 year old sister took over the naming..
FunnyPeculiar- you just brought back evil thoughts of school biology lessons.
Nooka- I have taught a few Cosmos (and a Nemo)

I was going to be David. Then they were stuck for a few days.

Not me but my poor sister was almost, very nearly, called Esmerelda.

My dad was adamant thats what he wanted her called

My mum was horrified and many tears and pleading later he gave in and agreed to a more "acceptable" name for her.

My mums main weapon was saying to dad

"imagine its tea-time and she's out playing at the end of the street, now call her in for tea"

Oh Buda I'd have been a Robert.

My mum really wanted to call my older sister Elizabeth after her mum, until my Dad pointed out that if they then had another girl his mother would create
merry hell if she wasn't called after her. As Dad's mother was called Gladys, luckily my mum agreed.

If I had been a boy I would've been Colin Eli . My actual name has already been mentioned on this thread

My name has been on here too as a totally boring one It's Ok though, I agree.

My Mum got herself into a pickle as she insisted that all our first names neded in 'ah' and our middle names began with 'c' - which is fine, until you get to your 4th child and the options are running out!!

Luckily, child 4 was a boy and narrowly escaped spending is life as Dinah Carol!!!

I wanted Hepzibah cause I was 6 and it was my favourite book