What were you ALMOST named?

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THe other day we heard a kid being called "Frodo." I wonder what the other options were...

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot twins in my jr. high school: Lulu and Lupe G0d1n3z. Tell me those weren't the best twin names ever! The only ones close in my school were December R4y and her sister Starr.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I was very close to being named Gloria. I HATE that name so I'm glad my mom changed her mind.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I was almost Robert Grady Baker which looks and sounds a lot better than what I've got now. The folks eventually just named me after my father, who was named after his father.

Since my dad and I had the same name, for the first month of my life, my parents called me "Bub".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna be siobhan. then i showed up and my parents realised siobhan was someone else, but they weren't quite sure who i was. i was nameless right up until the day they make you fill in the formal form thing, and they suddenly saw i was emma.

― emsk, Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Elizabeth or Jennifer.
-- kelsey (kelstarr...), June 2nd, 2005 10:22 AM. (kelstarry) (later) (link)

In other words, you were born in 1977. I am glad they went with Kelsey, tho, as I've often said before.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i was almost named phoebe after my brother's rich english grandmother. im often reminded of the riches i would have inherited and the european boarding schools i would have attended had my mother agreed to make her my namesake. instead, a little girl named katie came to the door one day, while my mom was pregnant, and that was that.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Chloe, Zoe, Martha

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob and Pheebs, sitting in a tree...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I was nearly a Buck.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Lloyd

― Richard K (Richard K), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Roffleby.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jehosaphat.

― From Zero To Drunk In Twenty Dollars (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot that my brother was almost named Ethan Alexander (my father wouldn't agree to the Alexander part because he knew it referred to my mother's favourite hockey player, Alexander Mogilny) and before that Gareth Alexander (she decided against Gareth because people would end up calling him Gary). Ethan Andrew's a wise choice.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost Padraig or Ned.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I was apparently to be called Robin were I a boy and Charlotte if it hadn't rhymed with harlot.

― Hate the sinner but love the sin / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if a different name would have an effect on your personality. I keep thinking about that since I originally posted to this thread -- something about Gloria makes me think of a loud, slightly trashy woman who works in a bingo hall (no offense to any Glorias reading this, of course).

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There once was a lass named Charlotte,
Who worked nights as a harlot,
For a prostitute, she's adorably cute!
We made love 'till her thighs were scarlet!

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That was an xpost, of course.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks to my mother's better judgement, I am not named Basil as my father initially suggested.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I would've much preferred Charlotte. Maybe I would've felt more compelled to live up to the inevitable rhymes.

xpost

― Hate the sinner but love the sin / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Seth.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), June 2nd, 2005 6:43 AM. (later)

Apparently my parents also considered the name Seth. Seth Fake. It doesn't bear thinking about.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the name Charlotte, too, despite the rhymes. How many people under the age of 16 know what "harlot" means these days anyway?

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That's exactly what I said to my parents!

― Hate the sinner but love the sin / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil. It's my middle name. I am infinitely fonder of my actual name.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

In fact, Kate, I would never have thought of rhyming Charlotte and harlot (and especially not scarlet) were it not for song by the local pirate band (heh, they must've been inspired by Helium's "Pat Trick") Alaskan Pirate and his Salty Seamen. Yes, they're as glorious as one would expect.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Willow. That was almost my name.

― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Heliogabalus

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Liar.

― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'd been born a few hours later I would have been Guadalupe.

OMG Sam, THANK GOD you missed out on that!!! Thank GOD!! I mean, "Guadalupe" only sounds right if you're, like, a weathered and wizened 85-year-old who smokes cigarettes while making masa for tamales in a little kitchen in a house filled with cracks in a neighborhood with a couple of crack dealers who are frightened of you.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jane Elizabeth. I've always wondered how I'd have done with that.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost Padraig or Ned.

So close to perfection.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favourite people is called Guadalupe.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 3 June 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

For some odd reason i can totally see Ned as a Seth.

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Friday, 3 June 2005 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I was to be Kieran until my parents met a total arse named that. Then I got Alisdair, which my parents arbitrarily decided to alter to the infinitely worse Alasdair when I was four. When I learned of the change when I was eight, and that my legal name was Alisdair, I went with that. My mom still spells it with the A though, ick.

― minolta (minolta), Friday, 3 June 2005 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Gregory, after my mom's dad.
But her sister had a son a week before I was born and took the name.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 3 June 2005 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ruth if I'd been a girl.

My Dad vetoed all my Mum's suggestions for boys' names as he said they were dogs' names. If my Mum had got her way I may have been called Rex or Bruce.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 4 June 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Francesco

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 4 June 2005 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I was always going to be Tracy as far as I know :/ and I'm not terribly fond of my name. On top of that, mum spelt it without the e thinking thatd be easier, so I've had to put up with absolutely everyone misspelling my name all my life.

At least I'm not a stacey.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 4 June 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

my real father's family had a thing about first-born sons having the initials wc. (no idea, presumably nothing to do with water closet i hope.) my mom quashed that by instead giving me the most bog standard white anglo-saxon names ever, which is at least helpful in the internet era.

supposedly i might have been 'kim' had i been a girl. hmm

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:06 (fourteen years ago)

i would have been claire

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:16 (fourteen years ago)

A fat girl's name.

I was almost Elizabeth.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:24 (fourteen years ago)

I was almost Christopher.

― sarahell, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:25 (fourteen years ago)

claire is a good name imo

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:28 (fourteen years ago)

I was almost Christopher.

I was too, but for some reason the parents thought having a one syllable first name to go along with a one syllable last name was preferable. Jerks.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

(fat girl thing is from breakfast club, not necessarily my opinion)

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

I've known a few slender Claires, so John Bender can eff off.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:31 (fourteen years ago)

it is impressive how knowing a gross tom or wendy in kindergarten forever colors your impression of those names

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:33 (fourteen years ago)

i would have been 'samantha'

i have a granola cruncher-type aunt who legitimately suggested 'zippy' and called me that as a kid instead of my name all the time

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:34 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, whenever I hear of a Robert who goes by "Robbie" I always think of the two Robbies I knew as a kid and how terrible they were.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:35 (fourteen years ago)

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