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Kind of a spin-off of, "Do you like your name?"

post #1 of 29
8/8/11 at 11:13am
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That thread got me thinking about names.

Do you know what your name would have been if you'd been born the opposite sex?
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post #2 of 29
8/8/11 at 12:11pm
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I would have been Daniel Vincent.
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post #3 of 29
8/8/11 at 12:24pm
My mom has told me I wouldn't have a name if I would've been a boy. My dad wanted to name a boy Anthony, after him, and my mom hated that idea, thought it would be too confusing, like of someone called and asked for Tony, "Which one?" It's ok though, my parents divorced, and my dad remarried and had 3 boys, the first of which is Tony.
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post #4 of 29
8/8/11 at 12:44pm
Delmar Ivan.................blech!
My poor baby brother got saddled with it instead.
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post #5 of 29
8/8/11 at 12:44pm
Nope. My Mom was so certain that I was a girl that she only came up with a girl's name.
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post #6 of 29
8/8/11 at 1:31pm
Zachary Taylor
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post #7 of 29
8/8/11 at 1:43pm
My mom named me when she was barely pregnant. She said she knew I was going to be a girl and had my name picked out. Now I am curious though...
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post #8 of 29
8/8/11 at 2:08pm
Isadore Meyer

Thank God Above I'm a girl.
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post #9 of 29
8/8/11 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by allroundthesun View Post
Do you know what your name would have been if you'd been born the opposite sex? [/color][/font]
Yes, my parents already had a boy, wanted a girl, so name was going to be Christine. Instead got another boy, so I was Christopher. Had another kid, and this time a girl and so she was named Christine.

Annoying when cuties came over or called asking for Chris, and it was for my younger sister.
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post #10 of 29
8/8/11 at 2:16pm
I was born 6 weeks early so there weren't ANY names picked out yet LOL.

Although my son (Michael Anthony) would have been Antonia Nicole if he were a girl. With my daughter, we only picked one name, a girls...LOL. (Nicole Gabrielle) It's hard with an Italian last name, kinda, to find fitting names, at least I think so.
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post #11 of 29
8/8/11 at 4:28pm
I would have been James.

I was actually supposed to be Sara instead of Kara, but two weeks before I was born my mom's good friend had a baby and named her Sara, so my mom changed it up a bit. I'm glad, b/c I like Kara much more than ordinary Sara.
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post #12 of 29
8/8/11 at 4:31pm
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Originally Posted by kara_leigh View Post
I would have been James.

I was actually supposed to be Sara instead of Kara, but two weeks before I was born my mom's good friend had a baby and named her Sara, so my mom changed it up a bit. I'm glad, b/c I like Kara much more than ordinary Sara.
Haha, especially "Sara Lee"....LOL!
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post #13 of 29
8/8/11 at 4:45pm
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Haha, especially "Sara Lee"....LOL!
HAHA! No kidding! I already got enough "Nobody doesn't like Kara Leigh" jabs, I can't imagine how bad it would have been if I were Sara Leigh. LOL!!
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post #14 of 29
8/8/11 at 6:23pm
I would have been Leslie. I don't know why, but my parents were so sure that I would be a girl, they never picked out a boy's name. I think my dad came up with my name while my mom was still out from the anesthesia. He named me after Brandon De Wilde, the little boy from the movie Shane.
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post #15 of 29
8/8/11 at 6:27pm
I would have been Robert Michael.
Personally, I don't mind that my brother got the "Robert" part. I don't think it suits me.
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post #16 of 29
8/8/11 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by kluchetta View Post
I was born 6 weeks early so there weren't ANY names picked out yet LOL.
Me too! Although I was "only" 4 weeks premature.
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post #17 of 29
8/9/11 at 9:42pm
I don't know what I would have been called if I were a boy -- I'll have to ask Mom tomorrow! But I do know what she originally wanted to name me...

Her name is Dorothy, and she's usually called Dorie. My father's name was Raymond, and Ray was one of several things he was called. So my mother wanted to name me...

Dorian Raye.

Get it? Dorie 'n' Ray?



Luckily, my father was at her bedside when they brought in the form on which my name had to be entered, and Mom was still groggy from the delivery. It was a close call, but Papa saved me by choosing names from Aunt Carolyn on his side and Aunt Helen Marie on Mom's side -- hence, Carol Marie. I am eternally grateful!
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EDIT: Mom was still up, so I asked: if I'd been a boy, they would have named me Noel David! Noel is just a name they liked, and they did use it for my brother six years later... and David was for my maternal grandfather, whom I adored. A wonderful name!
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post #18 of 29
8/9/11 at 10:48pm
Even though my parents had come up with both male and female names, they were primarily set on a boy's name as that is what they expected. The doctor insisted I was a boy despite my mother's feelings that I was, indeed, a girl. And, thank goodness as the name they had picked for me had I been a boy was atrocious...Jason Joseph. Bleh!

My younger brothers were saved from that horror, though. They were born Matthew Joseph and Michael James. My youngest brother was Brian before being re-named Michael, but he is much better suited as a Michael anyway. I still remember, though, my parents arguing over the fact that my mom wanted to name him Oliver Henry. Now, I think that name is adorable, but I think he dodged a bullet in the end.

I'm grateful my parents had thought of baby names ahead of time. I was born 9 weeks premature and am frightened by the thought of what I would've wound up with, name-wise, if they had to come up with something on a whim -- especially since they were expecting a boy. Jason Joseph is bad, but who knows what I could have been named! It's a scary thought...
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post #19 of 29
8/10/11 at 3:18am
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Originally Posted by Alison Joy View Post
Even though my parents had come up with both male and female names, they were primarily set on a boy's name as that is what they expected. The doctor insisted I was a boy despite my mother's feelings that I was, indeed, a girl. And, thank goodness as the name they had picked for me had I been a boy was atrocious...Jason Joseph. Bleh!

My younger brothers were saved from that horror, though. They were born Matthew Joseph and Michael James. My youngest brother was Brian before being re-named Michael, but he is much better suited as a Michael anyway. I still remember, though, my parents arguing over the fact that my mom wanted to name him Oliver Henry. Now, I think that name is adorable, but I think he dodged a bullet in the end.

I'm grateful my parents had thought of baby names ahead of time. I was born 9 weeks premature and am frightened by the thought of what I would've wound up with, name-wise, if they had to come up with something on a whim -- especially since they were expecting a boy. Jason Joseph is bad, but who knows what I could have been named! It's a scary thought...
Try Isadore Meyer.
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post #20 of 29
8/10/11 at 4:33am
My mother was avoiding really bad Egyptian names. Our father was obsessed with ancient Egypt his whole life. So being Anita Ann is quite ok with me, my twin sister is Anna Arlene

Our older sister was not so lucky. Her name is RA'Nee (that is pronounced Rah-Ha-Knee) It basically translates to long live the sun god Ra. Thank goodness most people mistake it for Renee We have always called her by her middle name Lisa.

They did not have boy names picked out at all. There are 2 brothers after us though: Joseph Willis (dads name along with maternal grandpas name) and Fredrick Edward (paternal grandfathers name). My little brother Fred gets annoyed when people say Frederick..he is always "there is no e in there thank you" LOL
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post #21 of 29
8/10/11 at 5:00am
I would have been a Junior. In my dad's family all firstborn (I'm one) sons were named after their fathers.
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post #22 of 29
8/10/11 at 5:06am
Had I been a boy, my name would have been Randy Gernell....which is what my brother's name is. We don't know where on earth Mom got that middle name; we always said she had too much anesthesia when she choose that name.
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post #23 of 29
8/10/11 at 6:54am
Theodore Leslie.

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post #24 of 29
8/10/11 at 10:40am
I guess I would have been Daryl Lloyd (my brother's name) if I would have been born a boy, but I was the first-born so he got the name instead.
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post #25 of 29
8/10/11 at 4:29pm
I would have been Kristoffer David. My brother would have been Bree Anna, and my youngest brother would have been Norine Elizabeth. I think he's glad he was a boy! What kind of name is Norine anyway. . .I think we would have called him Lizzie .
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post #26 of 29
8/10/11 at 7:06pm
No idea. My mom chose my name after I was born.
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post #27 of 29
8/10/11 at 7:20pm
I would have been Glenn Sanford after my two grandfathers. As it worked out, my brother got it instead.
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post #28 of 29
8/11/11 at 5:30pm
Bryan Adrian. One of my cousins used the Bryan for his first born since I wasn't using it.

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Originally Posted by CarolPetunia View Post
I don't know what I would have been called if I were a boy -- I'll have to ask Mom tomorrow! But I do know what she originally wanted to name me...

Her name is Dorothy, and she's usually called Dorie. My father's name was Raymond, and Ray was one of several things he was called. So my mother wanted to name me...

Dorian Raye.

Get it? Dorie 'n' Ray?



Luckily, my father was at her bedside when they brought in the form on which my name had to be entered, and Mom was still groggy from the delivery. It was a close call, but Papa saved me by choosing names from Aunt Carolyn on his side and Aunt Helen Marie on Mom's side -- hence, Carol Marie. I am eternally grateful!
My mother would have been named for two of her mother's "rich" siblings but since she was out of it, my grandfather interceded and stated Mom would be Luella Elizabeth. Luella for her mom, and Elizabeth for any of her 4 great grandmothers. Yep, all 4 were called Elizabeth.

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I would have been a Junior. In my dad's family all firstborn (I'm one) sons were named after their fathers.
The doc who delivered my dad was in the middle of a hot card game and he went straight back to the game instead of recording the birth. When he did get around to it a couple of days later, he recalled that dad was to be named for his dad so the doc put down "Junior Adrian". Dad was to be Cornelius Adrian, Jr. so it was a smidge better, I guess. They all thought the record said that until dad was shown a copy of his birth certificate and it said Junior was his first name.
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post #29 of 29
8/11/11 at 8:30pm
Yep! Stephen James, my younger brother got the name
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