# What would your name have been if you were born the opposite gender?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 11, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-name-have-been-if-you-were-born-the-opposite-gender/223941 "2004-01-11T05:24:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-your-name-have-been-if-you-were-born-the-opposite-gender/223941/121 "2004-07-06T15:11:29Z")

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David.

It was my mom’s favorite name and actually, she planned to name my older brother that. But about a year before he was born, my aunt had a baby David and my mom thought they would be too close in age to have the same name. A year later, when she was pregnant again, she felt she still couldn’t use the name so my sister was going to be a Douglas.

When I came along three years later, it was definitely going to be David. And then I was born with a vagina and all, and shot that plan to hell. So she never did get her David.

And I would have been David, by the way, not Dave.

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