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Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

So the other day, there was a thread about what names people liked. So what other names were your parents thinking of when they named you? Like what could your name have been but isn't?

Re: Alternate names thread

[badass_tiger]

I could have been a Jameelah. I still say it's my middle name sometimes since I don't have a middle name, but I'm really glad I got my name instead, I don't like it too much.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

Closeted trans me tried to find out that information once, and all I got was "We never thought of any boy names. We knew we were having a girl." Thanks for nothing, I guess.

Oh, plus my two siblings got interesting, creative names, and I got the boringest boring common name that 12 other kids and 2 teachers also had in elementary school. FFS, parents.

I have a lot of feelings okay.

Re: Alternate names thread

[surferofdreams]

My alternate name from when I was born is the name I use for real life. I was the first of 3 kids, and I'm ftm with two younger sisters, so my parents never used the male name that they decided on before I was born. Since none of my cousins (all younger) ever had the name either, that's what I used when I started transitioning.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

I could have been called Valentina. I'm really glad I wasn't and that my brothers got to name me instead of my parents. (No offense to anyone with that name, it just doesn't fit me.)

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

My middle name is Anne. My parents had originally planned on Andrea, with the emphasis on the second syllable, but when I was born my dad decided that he didn't like it and didn't want me to have a nine-syllable name. So I got the most boring middle name ever -- literally every single girl in my confirmation group at church was also an "Anne" -- and I am a tiny bit resentful. My first name (which is also incredibly common and which I have never liked the sound of) is the feminine version of my deceased paternal grandfather's name, and I don't think there were ever any other serious contenders.

Re: Alternate names thread

[inkdust]

If I had been a boy I would have been Matthew David. My parents didn't really like any other girls names but mine.

Re: Alternate names thread

[weaselbee]

I could have been Esther or Audrey.

Re: Alternate names thread

[kaijinscendre]

Roxanne. D:

Re: Alternate names thread

[fingalsanteater]

They decided not to use Lynn as my middle name because my first and middles names sounded like "a mandolin." That's it.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

I could have been Angel. Yeah. I don't like my name much, but it is better than Angel.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

I would have been Andrew.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently my parents didn't really think of a name until after I was born, so my mom was still lying in bed at the hospital when my dad suggested "Charlotte". My mom refused because she doesn't like that name. And then my dad suggested my actual name, at which point my mom went: "Fine, I'm too tired to argue, I just gave birth."
Several years later, she started talking to me about all of these other names she would've liked to have given me. Too late, Mom. :P

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

Gertrude. My mom either refused or talked my dad out of it, I'm not sure which.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

Didi or McKenna.

I'm so glad I'm not Didi. That name is now associated with rugrats for me forever.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

My parents knew I was a girl and had only one choice. What's kind of funny is they had a boy's name for my sister which they ignored when my brother was born, and a girl's name for my brother which they ignored when I was born. So I suppose I could have been Karla, which was the alternate for him. Glad I dodged that one.

Re: Alternate names thread

[dimestoresaint]

Rita or Anna. I wouldn't have minded either. I've grown to like my actual name, but it was a pain in the ass in school because it was ridiculously common and there are a million ways to fuck it up.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

My dad insists they always wanted to give me the name I have now, but my mom says early on Monica and Celeste were on the list. I sort of wish I had been Celeste, it's just close enough to my name and a little more common enough that a lot of people call me it by mistake anyway.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't have a boy's name planned, and I was born on St. Paddy's Day so I would have been Patrick by default lol.

They wanted me to be a Jenny but they didn't care beyond that--I could have been Jennifer OR Genevieve or Janice or Virginia or Gwenivere or whatever.

Re: Alternate names thread

[tabaqui]

My parents contemplated naming me after my paternal grandmother. Which would have made my name Hilda. Fortunately, they choose otherwise.

Re: Alternate names thread

[nightscale]

My dad wanted to name me Kitty or Rogue but my mum vetoed it, I mentioned to him years later that they should have called me Katherine so he could nickname me Kitty instead.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

My mother wanted to name me Ursula.

My father wanted to name me Krystelle.

Yeah, they don't have the best taste.

Re: Alternate names thread

[queerwolf]

My mom went back and forth between Hunter and the name I ended up with. I think I like Hunter better, but oh well.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

Cordelia, after the Vorkosigan Saga character. They also told people they were naming me Iphigenia Beauregard, because they were sick of people asking.

Re: Alternate names thread

[(Anonymous)]

Africa. Kinda glad it wasnt the case.

My brother could have been Ignacio, and that too would have been tragic.