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 going to be called Wendy, but thankfully my parents realised my initials would have been WC!

MamaLarazou, I can only think of Summer, Harmony or Honey too...

When I was about 8 I loved the name Glenda and wanted to change my name to that! it was after a cousins wife and she was just sooooo pretty!

My mother wanted to call me Moira until my aunt pointed out that Moira, with my last name, would bear an uncanny resemblance to a notorious mass murderer. If i'd been a boy i would have been Stuart.

Kirsten or Sheena or Morag.
But I still don't like the name she gave me!

I was going to be a Sarah but the next door neighbour had her little girl first so I am a Claire instead!

My DSIL is a Claire Elaine but right up to being born she was going to be Paula Jane Wednesday!

linda

Hate my name now, but not sure I am a Linda.

I always thought of myself as a bit of a Carrie...I wonder if its loo late to change

Most of these aren't too bad!

Apart from Drosophila, Candida, Tuesday and Rainbow. And being named after a mass murderer, of course.

I think the reason I so much dislike Rainbow is that it's a very girly name, and since I have a very girly appearance, and a very ungirly personality, I'd just get more prejudgement about my personality than I already do.

My name is utterly tedious and very very common. I wish my mum had been a bit more creative.

Mind you I am glad she vetoed Barnaby for my brother.

Minevra. I would thank god that i escaped it but then she went and called me something else early as bad

Nearly as bad

My dad wanted to call me Kwacha ... the currency of a number of African countries. Also the Bemba for 'dawn', which is a nice meaning, but I am one of the whitest people you've ever met, I'd have spent my entire life meeting people and them saying 'oh, you're not quite what I expected', and knowing EXACTLY what they meant. It was a lucky escape.

I was nearly called Reagan as my gran had watched the Exorcist and thought it was a nice name.

Thankfully sanity and reason prevailed.

oh i was nearly anastacia and i would have been happy with it my name is ssooooo top 5 1982 that i hated it with a passion!!!!

i have a Lara and a Harriet and we are trying to decide between florence and hermione for DD3, i don't want my girls to be one of many in same class, school, year lol!!!
xx

I was going to be called Aurora but when my Dad went to the consulate to register me he couldn't remember how to spell it so he put me down as Dawn, which is the translation from the French. I have never forgiven him as I always wanted to be called Rory as a nickname growing up

Django must be Rhonda!!

I was almost Tessa, thank my lucky starts my dad overruled my mum on that! My name was very popular and there were always others around in school but it never bothered me and I've always loved my name.

Binkyboo - or Barbara Anne...

My gran wanted Posie for me, apparently

My Mum wanted to call me Kizzy and my Dad wanted Sarah-Jane, so they agreed on something entirely different which was not too unusual but not overly popular either.

sybilvimes: Minevra? Or Minerva?

My Dad wanted to call me Fleur. Thank goodness he was forced to go with his second choice which, although no great is better than Fleur. It would have been particularly bad shouted in a slight estuary accent which my Dad has.

My mum wanted to call me Victoria which I quite like.

I would have been Richard if I was a boy.

I am snaps with MrsMattie.

My parents only had a list of like 4 names for all of us, 3 for girls and 1 for boys (wanted Iranian/English names), thankfully they had three girls and no boys If I were a boy I would have been Sam though, or 'Som' as my Dad says giggles I still half resent my name though, both my sisters got the less common-more Iranian names, whereas I got the blooming common British one rolls eyes

My Dad wanted to call me Maude, as it was my grandmother's middle name (her first name was Olga, glup!), she stated most emphatically, that she would never speak to him again if he dared. Thanks Nanny!!

Ooooh! also my Aunt was going to call her DD1 Shelly and my Mum piped up 'smelly Shelly' when she heard. My Aunt didn't call her DD that, needless to say.

aww have just read DDs name on here, and am just waiting for my own name to appear, it usually does on these ones!!