Probably Margaret which was my little sister’s name. When my mother was born her aunt was also pregnant and due at the same time. Both my grandparents and great aunt and uncle wanted to name a girl Durinda. My mother won by being born second and got the name Katherine instead.
Evelyn.
I’m pretty pleased things worked out the way it did😂
We never came up with a final list of boys names for our kids, we luckily had decided on girls names.
Rachel.
Yup, I’m a male but if I would have been born a female, I would have been Cynthia.
When I got out of the Army I was in the Reserves for a year, acting as company clerk. There was a woman whose name I ran across, and I must say that by being born female she must have really disappointed her dad. Or at least I’m assuming that having the name Floydene Earlene means she was name for SOME man! Ugh.
My name would probably be the same as a woman as it is now as a man. It’s one of those unisex names.
If I had been a boy, I would have been named Ashley. I turned out to be a girl (Ashley would have worked okay for a girl too, but back then it was more of a boy’s name). I was almost named Melissa, and since my real name starts with an M, I get called Melissa sometimes, or Madeline, or any other name that starts with M. A substitute teacher in high school always called me Stephanie. I have no idea where that came from.
I expect I would probably have been named Paul, since that’s my younger brother’s name, although I guess it’s possible that my parents changed their minds about which names they liked at some point in between.
Alexander Stuart. My dad was so excited about having a BOY that family legend has it that in fact he had names picked out for twins, just in case. I don’t know what my mythical brother’s name would have been. :rolleyes:
There being no name set for girl, my mother got to pick. The story is that I am named for when she started labor. 
I had a gym teacher who called me Elizabeth. I corrected him for two weeks, and then gave up and just started answering to Elizabeth. There was an Elizabeth in class, and he could never remember what her name was. She was just always “You over there.”
(Now I have that song stuck in my head. :mad:)
Had I been a male child, I would have been named after my two grandfathers, Arthur Klaus. I am pleased that I was a girl child.
When my mom was pregnant the first time she went through the entire pregnancy sure she was having a girl and, being a Bewitched fan, had decided on Tabitha for the name. On the way to the hospital while in labour her sister asked “what if you have a boy” so she came up with a name a few minutes before my brother was born.
When she was pregnant with me she, once again, just assumed she was having a girl and didn’t ever come up with a boy’s name. Fortunately I was a girl or I might have been named Sue!
My parents decided they wanted 4 boys, so I could be Luke. Or they would have wanted to keep trying for 4 boys, so I’d be Matthew. (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) By the time my brother finally came along, he was #5, so they named him Scott David.
My parents made out lists of names, and my sister was the only one out of the three of us who was named from that list.
Had I been a boy, I would probably have been named Barry but my dad wanted Omar, after one of his professors. :smack:
I was almost named Barbara Ann; the Beach Boys song came out a year later.
Probably James Dean, after my father. Luckily, my father didn’t get his way with the girls name because he wanted to name me Tiva Gayle.
After two daughters, my parents were dead certain I was going to be a boy. They had the names Gregory and Steven picked out, both common enough in the 1960’s.
Since i was born nameless and my parents eventually decided just to give me my father’s name as a first name and the masculine version of my mother’s name as a middle name, I’m sure they’d have done something similar had I been a girl. (Although, since there were complications with the pregnancy, they knew beforehand, which was rare in the 70s I’m told).
They had alternative sex names chosen for my siblings - I remember my mom really wanted my youngest sibling to be “JR” so she had a JR name picked for each sex. I don’t remember the alternate choice for my middle sibling.
My children will not be able to answer this question - since we knew their sex many moons before we got around to considering names.
Good solid Biblical-yet-friendly name. Had a discussion one night with Dave Foley about how “Dave” is always a nice guy next door, never the arch-villain.
I grew up in the Eisenhower-era middle-class white-bread midwest, where all the girls were Barb or Sue, or Barbara or Susan.
Glad I was a dude.
I’m named for a relative who died just before my parents married. So, they never considered what they’d name me if I came out the other way.