What would your name have been?

Merinda · Post by **Merinda** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:23 am

In a discussion with my parents about my birth it came about that they had great difficulty in choosing a male name for me .

Had I been a girl they had 2 names chosen as possabilities
"Christine or Karen".

I was wondering if anyone elses mother had a girl name chosen for them before they knew your sex during pregnancy??

Carol Ann · Post by **Carol Ann** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:56 am

Hi Merinda

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Yes in fact I do, Catherine. Not to go into details but mom really wanted a girl and of course dad a boy. Guess what?, they got me

Carol Ann

Post by **Celia** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:48 am

The same name that my younger sister actually ended up with: Francine. I guess you could say my little sister got a hand-me-down.

-Celia

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:18 pm

Kiki !!

That's actually my nickname (my folks weren't born in this country & did not realize that in the US, Kiki is a woman's name. But in Haiti, it goes both ways like Pat or Chris...)

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:42 pm

Hi Merinda.

It would have been Carolynn May. The Carol was for my mother's very good friend in highschool, the Lynn for her mother who passed away a few weeks before she graduated highschool. The May was my Dad's contribution. That was the month he found out they were pregnant.

No actually, it was the middle name of his paternal grandmother. My little sis got the Lynn when she was born eleven years later.

Carolynn

Jaye · Post by **Jaye** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:14 am

I asked my mother that question once. She waffled. She wouldn't tell me, at first, like it was some kind of secret. She knew then how I felt about things, and I think she thought that giving me that name would legitimize my feelings, make them okay (which they weren't). I don't actually remember what she told me. She got so flustered that I think she just threw a name out there so I'd shut up. In the end, I named myself, so I guess it doesn't matter.

PaulaK · Post by **PaulaK** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:22 am

My real first name is unisex, and I was once told I was named for my father's aunt. My last name is fairly common and there was a Fashion Model with both my first and last name when I was growing up.

However, the one advantage we CD's have over GG's is naming ourselves. I once had an attractive woman supervisor named Paula. She HATED her first name "since it was so plain", and legally changed it to one she made up. She then quit and got married. I then adopted both her former first name and Maiden Name initial as my femme name. I like to think her parents would approve.

Kerri · Post by **Kerri** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:25 pm

Hiya,

My name would have been "Clinical Waste".
My mom didnt know she was pregnant when she went into theatre to have fibroids removed.
The canny surgeon discovered yours truly when he was preparing for the operation.
So my mom was given the news "Your pregnant with a boy, do you want us to try and save him?"
You can probably guess her answer!

love

Kerri

SophieLawson · Post by **SophieLawson** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:47 pm

Funny this! I can remember my Mum saying years ago, I must have been about 8, she said if I was born a girl they were gonna name me either Hazel or Natalie

Sophie xx

Amelie-Laveau · Post by **Amelie-Laveau** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:33 pm

I have never asked my parents this question. My parents have never talked to me about my birth. I guess there were 5 others before me born, my parents probably were tired of the routine. Funny,, they never talk about my being born, I have never thought about this before.
Amelie

Jessie · Post by **Jessie** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:26 pm

Well I asked my mom and she gave me two names she does not remember for sure it was either Shantel (sp?) or Meranda. My real name which I use here or a pretty close version of is how I some time get mail and I am pretty sure that it unsexual (is that even a word)

Jessie

Gaven McLaren · Post by **Gaven McLaren** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:27 pm

My name if I had been a girl would have been Septima. I think that is how one would spell that.

Jadeanne · Post by **Jadeanne** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:31 am

Hi all,

I am named after my grandfathers, so if I had been a girl, I would probably have been named after my grandmothers - Sybil (actually Sarah Sybil) and Sarah.

At the time I was born, Sybil (mother's side) had already passed away, so I probably would have been named Sybil Sarah, and I probably would have carried on a tradition on by several members of my mother's side of the family and gone by my middle name, because I prefer Sarah to Sybil.

My late mother did not like the idea of people going by their middle names, even though 2 of her 3 brothers did it. My father did not have a middle name.

Jadeanne

Ahzz · Post by **Ahzz** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:45 pm

Dunno what they would have called me but I heard a story over Thanksgiving related to this...

Supposedly...

WHen mom had me at the hospital she was hoping for a girl. When the doc said it was a buy, she said something.
So for the next 3 months every time she went to the doc with me for my checkup the doc kept lecturing her on accepting me as I was.
Finally she asked the doc why she kept getting the lecure. Turns out the doc thought that she had said "Oh hell!" Of couse mom corrected the doc and insisted that she had said " oh well."....

LMAO.

yeah, I can't relate this one too easilly. Dad can tell it really well and get some good laughs. *grin*

Eloise Goth · Post by **Eloise Goth** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:20 pm

my mother and her mother were both called Norma.Not really a name I'd like to have been stuck with,so hopefully I'd have been named after my fathers mother, Elizabeth.