what would your parents have named you had your gender been different?

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Rona.

ugh.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm afraid they wouldn't have named me at all had my gender been different =\

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

My dad apparently wanted to name my sister after the famous Roman general Belisarius if she was a boy, but I'm not sure how serious a proposition that was.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

If I'd been a boy, I'd have been Ieuen.

Other choices for girls' names for me included Deirdre, Melanie or Jill. Thankfully my Dad hated all these suggestions, and actually named me after his ex-girlfriend (but my Mum didn't find out that was where he got the name from until years later. She was a tiny bit cross, I believe).

― C J (C J), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

You'd have been able to go to the Balkans and donate vowels to those poor people whose names consist primarily of consonants.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Belisarius is a great name! My parents came really close to naming me Anastasia after the princess.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Belisarius was one of Justinian's generals, right?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Eric

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Maurecia

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

My mum said she'd have given me away if I'd been born a boy! I don't know what I would've been named :( :( :(

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw, that's too sad, Elisabeth. :( (The whole "could've been given away" bit, that is. Sad.)

I think I might've been named Brian or Adam. Mom loved both names, and since she was the one who prevailed at the time of my naming (yeah, blame her, people), her choices would've probably been paramount. Though not Paramount, because it'd have been too "far out there" being named after a movie studio.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

aja

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

danuta

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

jess

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

jheri

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

My parents never even considered that I could've been a girl, which was overly optimistic of them.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

my parents were like yours andrew, never considered i could have been a boy so they only had my name picked out. similarly, they thought another girl was on the way when my brother was born, he was to have been called marnie. they quickly picked out "drew" for him seeing as he had a penis. which is a cool name anyways.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

My brother wanted to name me "Speaker Do-Nothing" had I been a girl (he was 3 years old at the time, of course)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Courtney (and I was nearly going to be a male Courtney for a while, apparently).

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Jane Elizabeth: I haven't got a clue as to how that would have worked out.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I would have been a Hillary.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Gay

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

yoyo

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Inez.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Jeremina

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Well I would have been called Matthew, but that was actually my 3 year old brother's idea.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Erin

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I can see this thread being used against people.

I actually really love that new Ani DiFranco

-- Gear! (drink_to_remembe...), September 29th, 2004 11:21 PM.

Haha, your taste sucks, Erin.

-- ILX asshole (bastard@yahoo.com), September 29th, 2004 11:34 PM.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

John. Dull dull dull.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

cullen.

my little brother got it instead.

i was also nearly phoebe (snow) or janis (joplin). i think i got the best out of the whole deal.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Alex.

I was nearly Alex as a girl too, followed by Sophie Anna. Now I am just Anna and have no middle name.

My dad took a brief fancy to the name Pandora, but, thank God, my mum vetoed it on the grounds of box jokes in later life.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

*gulp* Barbara.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

too easy...
brook.

― brock (brock), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

John. Dull dull dull.
-- Liz :x (lizd4ply...), September 21st, 2004 6:29 AM. (Liz :x) (later)

boo!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Bernadette

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Ian Macdonald....following my brothers, Douglas Robertson, Alan Cameron amd George Stewart. A brief history of the clans in one family.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Anna, probably, as its what they named my sister two years later. Or possibly Jo.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Didoismus

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Airmurchie, I'm a Cameron AND a Robertson!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Bloody Jocks, this place is overrun with them

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

rosamund. i nearly got called damien...

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Enzio
Wesley
Ryszard (after Roman Polanski's cousin Ryzard Horowitz I am guessing)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Claire. I wish it was something crazy, like Psychic Moonbeam.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure one of Snoop's kids is named Ryszard.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link

LaQuiesha

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I have no idea, though I assume I couldve remained Tracy, even though being a Tracy as a guy would have sucked even more than it does as a girl :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate my name.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Catherine. Which I quite like.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Tracy's not a bad name. I kind of like it. Yeah, goddamit, like Tracy Gold from Growing Pains. Remember her? She was arrested recently; I can't remember why. Anyway, Tracy's a solid name. Much better than, say, Rainbow. I know a girl named Rainbow. But she's retarded. So her name probably doesn't bother her too much. Fuckin Hippie Parents. She was a sweet girl.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Star Cauliflower, do you mean me? That's my name. I wish it was Tracy.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I knew someone name Rainbow would pop up at out the ILE woodwork. I guess it's not a bad name, but I should feel sensitive to the whole getting-picked-on-in-elementary-school issue. Did that happen to you?

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 05:27 (nineteen years ago) link

sure, but I'm not bitter. I've been known as rainy since forever anyway, which I really like.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

i think rainy is lovely

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

and far easier to say than "Rainbow" which I think has a clumsy consonant pairing with the n and the b and therefore is a stupid name.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, rainy, I totally assumed you were called "rainy" because your full name was Lorraine!! "Rainbow"?? You are officially the first individual I've ever known who actually has a hippie first name. That's... wow.

(Ha, thus speaks a female named Deanna....)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Even though hippie names give a kind of River Phoenix interest value, I'm saving up $151 to have it changed by deed poll, its an albatross around my neck.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Even though hippie names give a kind of River Phoenix interest value, I'm saving up $151 to have it changed by deed poll, its an albatross around my neck.

Oh really? I suppose this action would make a great deal of sense, though a bit of me is kinda hoping you hang onto the name because -- well, because it's your name. Though if you're looking for name suggestions -- maybe you can take up Lorraine? That way the "rainy" nickname will still be applicable to you.

Though -- you know. Your choice. :)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, I meant I'm "changing" it to rainy! Now I will get back to the "what would your parents have named you had their lifestyle choice been different" thread!

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Ian.

Which is why it annoys me even *more* that my brother nicked the name "Ian" even though his birth certificate says Hamish. Stupid yanks can't pronounce Hamish so he stole *my* name. Grrrrr.

― The 120 Days Of Streatham (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Would you like us to call you Ian?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link

No. Thanks, though, Barry.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Elizabeth. Which I think a fine name.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Pietra. For fuck's sake.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Pietra Passantino sounds like a comedy Italian stereotype pizzeria owner.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

one guess

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Chlamydia? Chlamydia Harvell?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow Rainy that is so cool!! Still a cool chiXor & a cool name, I should have known! :-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Sarah. My sister's Gemma, and she would have been Alex.

― Simon (flameproof) (Flameproof), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Algernon - lucky escape, eh? I often wonder if I'd have been able to work it...

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

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