Dana Lynn. But I got saddled with the fortunate name of John Thomas. Brit dopers will get that one.
Anna.
Not only that, but my parents had simply assumed that I was going to be a girl. I came second, the first child was a boy, so they simply concluded that a girl would come next to balance things out. Alexander was an impulsive decision shortly after they learned that their plans had been thrown off.
Patrick.
My mum, who’s names is Mary, wanted to name her younger brothers Moses and Joshua. “Mary, Moses and Joshua” - sounds like a 70s folk group doesn’t it? Fortunately, her taste had improved by the time she had me!
I don’t know why my parents named me this. My father just liked the name, apparently, and Mother didn’t have any ideas – though I would have been Breanna (Brianna?) as her second choice.
I also could have been Anastasia.
Stacy, if my mum is to be believed.
Stacyberserker
she rocks!
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If I had been a boy I would have been named Gawain. I had enough problems in school with Tara…
Neat-o link…Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
My older brother would have been Stephanie.
I would have been Staci.
With an ‘i’.
This was in 1971 when ending names with ‘i’ instead of ‘y’ or ‘ie’ was unknown. I’d have been an outcast, shunned by my peers. Laughed at on the playground! In short, not much different than my real childhood.
Alice…
…or Polly.
I guess I would come to appreciate the parrot related jokes… :smack:
Jennifer, but I was born male, so I got to be named John.
My parents were dead-set on Lucy. Actually, I think it was supposed to be Louisa, with Lucy as a nickname (good move). Didn’t work out. Then my younger brother was born, no luck there either. About nine years later, we got a dog and named her Lucy.
A few months later, my mom got pregnant… but an embarrassing conundrum was averted, since they struck out and had another boy.
I would have been Jean-François if I had been a boy.
I would have been Andrew. People in my family seem to like that name. My younger cousin got it instead, and it’s also my nephew’s middle name. I’m glad I got Valerie, though the morons gave me the middle name Dawn. Lovely, but when paired with V makes for the initials VD. It’s not my middle name anymore, thank goodness, since when I got married I took my last name as my middle name.
I would have been Stephen (my younger brother’s name) and he would have been Kendra.
My mom says Jackie…which is also my girlfriend’s name.
I would have been Paul.
Family folklore has it that my father wanted to name me some ten-syllable Hawaiian name, had I been born female.
whew
As the youngest of four daughters, Mom said she never even bothered picking a boy name for me. She did, however, continue the acronym started with my older sisters Catherine, Amber, Ronda and Tonya.
My ex-husband’s name is Tom and we were going to go with that horrid cutesy same first initial tradition for our baby, I loved the name Thea(dosia) for a girl. Musta been the hormones? Thankfully we were against juniorizing and all the male T names we liked were already used somewhere in the family so we ended up with a Zachary.
I think my mom said my name would’ve been Ashley instead of Clayton.
Stephen, which is my younger brother’s name. If he had been a girl, he would have been Kendra.
Michael.
By the time my brother was born, they knew so many little Michaels that they changed their minds and went with Rodney.