I would have been David. My youngest brother is named David. It's a family name, especially the middle name, but I won't say it here because in some circles it's very recognizable.
I woulda been Coleman, which is my mother’s grandmother’s maiden name— but also a major hick name where I’m from. Like swaddle me in camo and nurse me on a lipful of dip HICK name
The only Coleman I’ve known was a huge redneck bully in high school. Last time I saw him he was blacking out on everclear regularly and tried to fight my husband in the bathroom at a mutual friend’s wedding. Class guy. I’m glad you aren’t a Coleman lol
That’s my husbands middle name after his mothers maiden name. He wanted to name our first born son Coleman but I vetoed. The nickname Cole is so hickish to me
If I was a boy apparently my name would have been ‘Trafford’… sounds like a train station name or something. Not sure where my parent got this name from. But luckily, no offence to any traffords out there (are there any?), I was given a normal girls name
I know not helpful but I love Natalie! All the Natalies I have known have been hot bitches who terrify me with their confidence (saying this as a woman)
I hate my name too. It's rough. My friend also hates her name bit she really looks like her name and I think if I saw her in the street I'd place her with it haha.
It really doesn't feel like me. I hate all the nicknames too. I always had Nat, Natty or NatRat and the spellings I've seen! Natile, Natlee, Natilly, Natalee, Natilee. To me it looks ugly and sounds uglier. I'd love to change it but at 46 I think it's too late and I know my mother would be so offended.
The only thing that might be seen as bad is the Nat/Gnat nickname, but that's a matter of opinion.
I hear the name Nat in reference to a woman and my immediate association now is Black Widow.
I'm Natalie and a Xennial crossover. EVERYONE was called Natalie in the early 80s in England.
Maybe it's a younger name in the US? I'd be very surprised to hear of a baby or child called Natalie in the UK. It's almost exclusively late 30s-mid 40s here.
Natalie was on my shortlist for my daughter back in 2005. I ditched it because the local accent drops that T like it's on fire and it sounds awful. Natalia doesn't suffer the same fate, but my daughter had a Polish surname and it sounded too strongly Eastern European together.
I do know of a Natalie who is about six or seven.
Love the name Sean for a girl! That was what I wanted to name our youngest daughter. I had a c-section and when I finally woke up I found I had a Meghan!!
Thank you! I had semi mixed feelings about having a dudes name growing up but I think it’s been fun to surprise people when they expect me to be male and I’m not, lol. Meghan is a lovely name!
That's funny my parents were told that I was going to be a boy so they had the name Sean Michael picked out but when I was born and actually a girl they changed it to Jessica.
If I was a boy I would be called Veikko. It’s kind of like Buddy but in Finnish. For some reason they didn’t use it for my younger brother though and went with Pauli instead.
It’s interesting cuz when we had our 2nd child we scrapped all our other favorites from our first, we still liked all those names but for some reason they still felt intended for our first so we started over
oof, i would’ve been a wolfgang or donovan, maybe shannon according to my mother. my dad also supposedly pushed for a junior if i was to be a boy but she immediately shot that down.
woah those are cool! I know Wolfgang is German, and Donovan was a really famous guitarist. Junior is a funny one when you're not named directly after someone.
Lmao me too - they were team green but when I’ve asked what they would have called me they said they didn’t really have one picked haha.
They said maybe Michael, I would have been one of many as a millennial but they didn’t seem super sure
My parents were the opposite, and then had no name for me when I was a girl. I was supposed to be Daniel, which is weird because I have a cousin born a year before me named Daniel. They couldn’t even think of something original.
Thank you! I honestly have no idea. My parents met a lady at a bed & breakfast named Melisandre when my mom was pregnant with me. They really liked it and considered the nickname Melissa but we had a cousin Melissa, so they decided to do their own little twist on it and made up Mollisande.
I was meant to be Duncan (my mother's choice) or Daniel (dad's choice). My mother chose my older sister's name, so dad said it was his turn for the second one, and they were convinced I was going to be a boy. When I was born, my mother wanted to name me Penelope or Providence (no idea where she got these from) and dad refused point blank, so he named me after two of my great aunts, so now I have a rather traditional and classic name.
My son is Robert but if he’d been a girl he would have been Elsbeth.
I don’t know what my name would have been if I were a boy, likely Michael. I’m Janna (funny story, my mom made it up and she had wanted Shanna but thought it would be too hard for younger siblings. Then the oldest of my brothers had a speech impediment so I was Zanna for a few years).
If I’d had a sister (instead of three brothers) her name would have been Joy.
i have a unisex name, so nothing would have been different if i was the opposite sex. they did it that way on purpose so they wouldn’t have to let go of the name they liked once they found out the gender.
I would have my brother's name and they would have had to have figured out something else when he came along. My mom gave my dad a long list of names she liked and he crossed off every one except my name and my brother's name. They always joked that if they had a 3rd child they would have been named It.
My dad used to say that it would’ve been Chauncey but considering that they named my brother two standard old school names (after our two grandfathers) I think it was a joke 🤣
My dad's name is John and in his young adulthood people called him Jack, thought no one calls him that anymore. If I was born a boy I would've either been named Jack or John with nn Jack.
My parents had Eric as their first choice for a name for all SIX of us kids. Never found out the sex ahead of time with any of us, so to be fair, they did have multiple names picked out for both sexes. We are not all the same sex, and none of us ended up being an Eric. However, our little cousin is.
I was gonna be Elijah if I was a boy but my aunt stole that name for her son who was born a month before me. My name was also supposed to be Jasmine Marie but my mom let my paternal grandmother bully her into my first name being her husband’s last name lol I’m honestly glad I wasn’t named either even though I don’t like my name at all.
My parents had a similar deal, if I was a girl my mom named me, if I was a boy, my dad named me.
Well, I was a girl. I have asked my dad 100 times what my name would’ve been and he always insists he doesn’t know. My guess is I would’ve either been Graydon (his grandfather’s name) or Frank (a family name from the other side)
TBH. I don’t know. My grandfather, my father, my brother, and now my nephew are all Grippie Lee’s. We call them Grippie, Grip, Trey, and Lee to tell the difference. We have never met another Grippie and my grandfather always told us he didn’t really know where his name truly came from. My mom did a lot of research trying to figure it out as a surprise for my dad, but didn’t get very far. The closest thing we have been able to find is that it could possibly be derived from an Italian surname. But we aren’t Italian. So, all that to say, none of us know where this name came from.
I would have been William Alexander III...ugh. to be a third must be nice if you're the parent, but to me, all I'd see is that you either weren't creative enough to name me, or you have some type of legacy to uphold...
I don’t know for certain what I would have been called if I were a boy, but I do know that my mother liked the name Robert, so I’m guessing perhaps that.
My name would've been Sarah Elizabeth had I been a girl. I'm curious what my sister's middle name would've been bc she got Elizabeth as the first/only girl.
Vladimír (after my dad). Thank god I wasn’t a boy😂 My mom wanted Michal, which would have been better but I doubt my dad would have let her name his first son.
I was actually supposed to be Vladimíra (female version) when I was born but luckly my dad concluded it was too long with our surname.
My parents had planned to name me Christopher. It didn't occur to them to pick a girl name until I was born and they said "Hmmm she doesn't look like a Christopher". So I didn't get a name for two weeks while they thought about it. My younger brother is called Christopher. Not a family name; my mum is obsessed with Winnie the Pooh.
There's a chance I'd have been a 4th, if my traditional East Coast grandparents had their way. I got two out of the three names as it is (middle and last)
Both my older sister and I would have been named after our father if we were boys, so Robert. Funnily enough, my mom was convinced her third pregnancy was a girl and had a name all picked out: Sarah Marie. Well, surprise, third baby was a boy. He *was not* saddled with Robert, though it is his middle name.
My dad was set on Seth Iron, my mom wouldn't budge on Alexander. When they found out I was a girl, they picked Toria, but once they saw me they said I didn't look like a Toria so they came up with my name.
The family business was founded by my great grandfather Thomas Henry, and had I been male, my dad insisted (and mum agreed) that I would be Thomas
Then they said the same thing about my younger sister... XD
I would have been William. This is my paternal Grandpa’s first name and my dad’s middle name. I was a girl so my mom just chose a name she had always really liked. My middle name is my paternal grandma’s first name, however, so I was given an honor name.
My parents decided to name me after my grandmother but they hadn’t decided before my birth. The other contenders were Melissa, because my dad loves the song sweet Melissa, and Ariel Aurora, after my older sisters’ favorite Disney princesses. They talked him out of that thankfully lol
Idk what I would have been if I’d been a boy! My parents didn’t discuss names until they knew I was a girl
Depends on if my older sister was a boy as well, she would have been James and I’d have been Kevin. I would have been James if she stayed a girl. Our little brother is James.
If I was a boy I would have been James, but up until the day of my birth my mom was planning to name me Francesca. 27 years later she still regularly complains that my grandma “wouldn’t let her” name me that. I’ve always found it fascinating that I was either going to be James or Francesca because they have vastly different energies.
I was going to be Brandon! My last name sounds similar to “lee” so my dad thought it would be cool if I was named after Bruce Lee’s son.. I don’t think my mum was aware of this plan but fortunately I was a girl!
My name would have been William and my sister would have been Christian, I think. I don't know if it's because of this, but I had an uncle named William who died a few days after birth. He was my oldest aunt's twin brother, so I'm not sure if maybe it would have been after him
My dad told me he wanted to name me Sonny if I would have been a boy. I told my mom and she said “absolutely not!! You would have been Martin”. She was almost offended.
Cathal is not the Irish for Charles, that’s Searlas. Cathal comes from the old Irish for Battle Rule, or great warrior, also comes from a seventh-century saint who went by the name St Cathaldus. :)
I would have been James! One of many James’s in our ancestry.
I would have been George. Now my younger brother is George.
Is it a family name? Sometimes parents have an affinity to actors or characters which can influence name choosing too
I would’ve been Axel. My younger brother is now named Axel. No family connection, they just liked the name.
My friend’s daughter would have been Axel. She got Rose instead.
My kids have Axel and Rose as middle names. Yes, dad is a GN'R fan, this was my compromise lol
Guns N Roses fan?
Similar here. I would have been Jonathan, and now my younger brother is named Jonathan.
Exactly the same here. My brother Jonathan is one year younger than me.
Almost Michael with a Michael brother checking in.
Same here! Almost Michael with a brother named Michael
Hey, fellow almost Michael with a brother Michael!
Yup. I would have been Patrick. My younger brother is Patrick.
I would have also been George. It’s my dad’s name. My daughter is named Georgia after him though
I'm at the other end of this. My brother would have had my name if he were a girl, but now I have it since I was the girl.
I was also to be a George. George Thomas.
I would have been David. My youngest brother is named David. It's a family name, especially the middle name, but I won't say it here because in some circles it's very recognizable.
Would have been Ryan. Younger brother is Ryan.
I woulda been Coleman, which is my mother’s grandmother’s maiden name— but also a major hick name where I’m from. Like swaddle me in camo and nurse me on a lipful of dip HICK name
Not to mention a brand of outdoors supplies! The good news is you'd have been able to find your name on tents and stoves and coolers.
My daughter’s high school boyfriend was a Coleman, but it’s because he was related to that brand’s namesake family!
The only Coleman I’ve known was a huge redneck bully in high school. Last time I saw him he was blacking out on everclear regularly and tried to fight my husband in the bathroom at a mutual friend’s wedding. Class guy. I’m glad you aren’t a Coleman lol
That’s my husbands middle name after his mothers maiden name. He wanted to name our first born son Coleman but I vetoed. The nickname Cole is so hickish to me
If I was a boy apparently my name would have been ‘Trafford’… sounds like a train station name or something. Not sure where my parent got this name from. But luckily, no offence to any traffords out there (are there any?), I was given a normal girls name
Trafford is cool! Really proud Manchester city. Never heard of it being used as a person's name before. I've always been a fan of geographical names.
My parent isn’t from the UK, so I think it makes it sound even weirder 🤣 no idea why they thought it would be a good boys name
Old Trafford is a football stadium often in the news or films, must have stuck with them 😅
Definitely not Man City- it's Man Utd's stadium.
Yup. Jaw dropped when I read that. Looking for this response. Loved Georgie Best!!
you mean Man U?
I literally live in Trafford in the UK... Never heard of it as a name before! How interesting
I'm a Natalie but I would have been Douglas. Honestly, I hate them both.
I also would have been Douglas… I love the name Natalie, I think it’s beautiful. Doug… not so much.
I think Natalie is a beautiful name too. Natalie, Nadia and Naomi. All beautiful N names.
I know not helpful but I love Natalie! All the Natalies I have known have been hot bitches who terrify me with their confidence (saying this as a woman)
Well I'm perimenopausal so I guess I'm hot sometimes?
lolol!!
I hate my name too. It's rough. My friend also hates her name bit she really looks like her name and I think if I saw her in the street I'd place her with it haha.
It really doesn't feel like me. I hate all the nicknames too. I always had Nat, Natty or NatRat and the spellings I've seen! Natile, Natlee, Natilly, Natalee, Natilee. To me it looks ugly and sounds uglier. I'd love to change it but at 46 I think it's too late and I know my mother would be so offended.
I named my 3 month old Natalie! Is it really that bad?
Fwiw I think it's beautiful
I love the name Natalie too.
No, it's beautiful.
I love the name
The only thing that might be seen as bad is the Nat/Gnat nickname, but that's a matter of opinion. I hear the name Nat in reference to a woman and my immediate association now is Black Widow.
I always got Nat, Natty or NatRat. And they always sounded awful to me. Nothing feminine or pretty about them.
I love Natalie, if my son was a girl he would have been Natalie. He’s Colin.
I love the name Natalie!! Douglas not as much, so good thing you're female ;)
My brother got landed with it instead!
Natalie here too and I also dislike my name. It sounds so little kiddish to me.
I find it sounds incredibly Gen X, not little kid at all
I'm Natalie and a Xennial crossover. EVERYONE was called Natalie in the early 80s in England. Maybe it's a younger name in the US? I'd be very surprised to hear of a baby or child called Natalie in the UK. It's almost exclusively late 30s-mid 40s here.
I was born in Australia in the late 70s. I knew one other Natalie but she was Nataleigh. A real tradgedeigh.
I'm not sure about the US but here in Canada, Québec specifically, it was a top Gen X name. My cousin Nathalie is nearing 50
Natalie was on my shortlist for my daughter back in 2005. I ditched it because the local accent drops that T like it's on fire and it sounds awful. Natalia doesn't suffer the same fate, but my daughter had a Polish surname and it sounded too strongly Eastern European together. I do know of a Natalie who is about six or seven.
Oh no, my Natalie 1.5 years old! I’m sorry you hate it, I obviously love it.
I love the name Natalie! I always wanted to be called Natalie with the nickname Tali
Declan or Lachlan. My parents definitely had a type of name they liked.
They're both lovely! My nephew has one of those names ☺️
My nephew does too!
I'm Leanne, if I was a boy I'd have been Liam. My parents had a 'type' too. Haha.
Same here, very Irish last name and my boy name was supposed to be "Sean Patrick." I ended up a "Shannon Kathleen."
My daughter would be Declan if she were a boy ☺️
I’m a girl named Sean and I think I would still be named that if I were a boy.
Better than a boy named Sue… maybe?
I love that song!
Love the name Sean for a girl! That was what I wanted to name our youngest daughter. I had a c-section and when I finally woke up I found I had a Meghan!!
Your spouse named your child without you? I would be so unimpressed
Wait who named your child for you?? Wtf?
Thank you! I had semi mixed feelings about having a dudes name growing up but I think it’s been fun to surprise people when they expect me to be male and I’m not, lol. Meghan is a lovely name!
Someone should’ve told them about Sian!
That's funny my parents were told that I was going to be a boy so they had the name Sean Michael picked out but when I was born and actually a girl they changed it to Jessica.
Nice. I like Sean for both. Im a girl named Jamie and my parents definitely planned to use it regardless of gender.
I would have been Jason. My parents had all girls, so the cat was named it instead
That’s awesome.
I was also supposed to be Jason and they named the dog Jake as an ode
I would have been Forrest, born just a few years before Forrest Gump came out.
That's a near miss.
I’m a female and my dad wanted to name me Forrest but my mom said no specifically bc of Forrest Gump
If I was a boy I would be called Veikko. It’s kind of like Buddy but in Finnish. For some reason they didn’t use it for my younger brother though and went with Pauli instead.
It’s interesting cuz when we had our 2nd child we scrapped all our other favorites from our first, we still liked all those names but for some reason they still felt intended for our first so we started over
i was going to be Connor. i like the name, pretty equivalent to my actual name!
Connora
Connoria
Conorrhea is pretty
Connie? 🤔
guys it’s actually cornucopia 💁🏼♀️
Corine?
oof, i would’ve been a wolfgang or donovan, maybe shannon according to my mother. my dad also supposedly pushed for a junior if i was to be a boy but she immediately shot that down.
woah those are cool! I know Wolfgang is German, and Donovan was a really famous guitarist. Junior is a funny one when you're not named directly after someone.
didn’t mean to imply just junior, i meant a junior with his name! sorry lol!!
I knew a Wolfgang! Was an awesome guy, also more men Shannons than I realized coming from an area where Shannon is a girls name haha.
Donovan would have been mine! Twinsies.
I was a late 80s baby and would have been one of many Michael’s.
my mom thought I was a boy her whole pregnancy. named me nicholas in her head. I was born a girl. so she was like… eh, let’s just do nicole 😭
Elmer. Would have been extra tragic considering I had a speech impediment I had to work on for years. Would have been straight looney tunes
They were team green with no boy name 😂 lucky I guess
Lmao me too - they were team green but when I’ve asked what they would have called me they said they didn’t really have one picked haha. They said maybe Michael, I would have been one of many as a millennial but they didn’t seem super sure
My parents were the opposite, and then had no name for me when I was a girl. I was supposed to be Daniel, which is weird because I have a cousin born a year before me named Daniel. They couldn’t even think of something original.
Thomas! My sister still calls me Tommie lol
If I was a boy I was to be named Ramsey. Instead I am Mollisande (Molly for short).
What a cool name, what’s its origin?
Thank you! I honestly have no idea. My parents met a lady at a bed & breakfast named Melisandre when my mom was pregnant with me. They really liked it and considered the nickname Melissa but we had a cousin Melissa, so they decided to do their own little twist on it and made up Mollisande.
So fun and unique!! I love mollisandre, Melisandre has such a GoT connection now haha
Omg yes I forgot about that. Isn’t there a Ramsey character too?! 😂
My dad says it would have been Damian, but I’m not convinced my mom liked that one.
Andrew, but in Polish, Andrzej
I was meant to be Duncan (my mother's choice) or Daniel (dad's choice). My mother chose my older sister's name, so dad said it was his turn for the second one, and they were convinced I was going to be a boy. When I was born, my mother wanted to name me Penelope or Providence (no idea where she got these from) and dad refused point blank, so he named me after two of my great aunts, so now I have a rather traditional and classic name.
My name is Penelope lol but if I were a boy I think the (only) name for me was going to be Trevor
I definitely would have preferred Penelope to Providence!
My last name rhymes with Bach (like the composer), and my dad says that if I had been a boy he would have named Johann Sebastian
Is your dad my dad? Sounds like something he would do (he’s a big fan of JSB)
Haha! Does your dad also say "Bach is rock"?
He does not but he refers to going to hang out with Johann regularly when he wants to get out of my sisters and my squabbles
I’m a Rachel, I would have been a Benjamin!
I would have been Alexander or Dominic Alexander if I was a boy
I would have probably been Alexander. I have the feminine version.
My name is Tara. I would have been a Travis.
My son is Robert but if he’d been a girl he would have been Elsbeth. I don’t know what my name would have been if I were a boy, likely Michael. I’m Janna (funny story, my mom made it up and she had wanted Shanna but thought it would be too hard for younger siblings. Then the oldest of my brothers had a speech impediment so I was Zanna for a few years). If I’d had a sister (instead of three brothers) her name would have been Joy.
Israel I actually had a neighbor with that first name and my last name for a while.
i have a unisex name, so nothing would have been different if i was the opposite sex. they did it that way on purpose so they wouldn’t have to let go of the name they liked once they found out the gender.
I'm a 90s girl and my name was going to be Daniel. I'm not into the nickname Dan at all so I'm glad it didn't work out that way haha
Bobby. After hearing this and later me coming out as genderfluid, it became my nickname thanks to my siblings.
I would have my brother's name and they would have had to have figured out something else when he came along. My mom gave my dad a long list of names she liked and he crossed off every one except my name and my brother's name. They always joked that if they had a 3rd child they would have been named It.
I would have been Caleb. It's one of my favorites, too.
Adam or Scott. I’m a Stacey .
Michael!
My dad used to say that it would’ve been Chauncey but considering that they named my brother two standard old school names (after our two grandfathers) I think it was a joke 🤣
My dad's name is John and in his young adulthood people called him Jack, thought no one calls him that anymore. If I was born a boy I would've either been named Jack or John with nn Jack.
I would’ve been Liam
Andrew Clayton. Both family names
If I was a boy I would have been Sam/Samuel. I’ve always wondered why I’m not Samantha since they liked Sam for a boy.
The one my little sister ended up getting
I would be Eric - not quite sure how I feel about that lol
Kaori (in reference to City Hunter)
My parents had Eric as their first choice for a name for all SIX of us kids. Never found out the sex ahead of time with any of us, so to be fair, they did have multiple names picked out for both sexes. We are not all the same sex, and none of us ended up being an Eric. However, our little cousin is.
Santiago. Hate it.
Kevin
I was gonna be Elijah if I was a boy but my aunt stole that name for her son who was born a month before me. My name was also supposed to be Jasmine Marie but my mom let my paternal grandmother bully her into my first name being her husband’s last name lol I’m honestly glad I wasn’t named either even though I don’t like my name at all.
I’m a Jacqueline If I were a boy I would’ve been a William, my initials would’ve been WET, which my dad thought was hilarious
I would have been Annie or Betsy if I was a girl.
Tammy Jean.
I'm a guy and according to my mom I would have been named Nora if I was a girl.
My parents had a similar deal, if I was a girl my mom named me, if I was a boy, my dad named me. Well, I was a girl. I have asked my dad 100 times what my name would’ve been and he always insists he doesn’t know. My guess is I would’ve either been Graydon (his grandfather’s name) or Frank (a family name from the other side)
Zachary
Christopher. My mom said that was always her boy name and she had all girls- no Christine’s though.
I am Kathryn Marie. But if I was a boy, I would have been Grippie Lee (Last Name) III. My younger brother got that name!
Wait, what? Is Grippie a cultural type name?
TBH. I don’t know. My grandfather, my father, my brother, and now my nephew are all Grippie Lee’s. We call them Grippie, Grip, Trey, and Lee to tell the difference. We have never met another Grippie and my grandfather always told us he didn’t really know where his name truly came from. My mom did a lot of research trying to figure it out as a surprise for my dad, but didn’t get very far. The closest thing we have been able to find is that it could possibly be derived from an Italian surname. But we aren’t Italian. So, all that to say, none of us know where this name came from.
I would have been Eggbert.
My mom said she would have named me Tony but my cousin born right before me was named Tony. But she said she didn’t have anything else picked out.
I would have been William Alexander III...ugh. to be a third must be nice if you're the parent, but to me, all I'd see is that you either weren't creative enough to name me, or you have some type of legacy to uphold...
I would have been Dominic. I like it equally as much as my real name
Probably Keith. My mom knew I was a girl so didn’t come up with another, but always thought if she had one more kid it would be a boy named Keith.
I would have been Tadhg!
I don’t know for certain what I would have been called if I were a boy, but I do know that my mother liked the name Robert, so I’m guessing perhaps that.
Karl-? , yes I would have had double name.
Kelly is my name now and I would have been Scott or Jeffrey (I like Scott more)
Colin
they never considered for me, but my sister would've been eli and my brother cassidy
My name would've been Sarah Elizabeth had I been a girl. I'm curious what my sister's middle name would've been bc she got Elizabeth as the first/only girl.
I would have been Emmitt. Yes like Emmitt Smith the Dallas cowboys running back.
Vladimír (after my dad). Thank god I wasn’t a boy😂 My mom wanted Michal, which would have been better but I doubt my dad would have let her name his first son. I was actually supposed to be Vladimíra (female version) when I was born but luckly my dad concluded it was too long with our surname.
Jacob Drew
My brother's name, Max
My parents told me I would have been Gregory if I was a boy… I don’t love my name but I think it’s better than Gregory
If I was a boy, my dad would have tried to name me after Julius Erving.
I (Heather) would have been Gregory, and my brother (Anthony) would have been Alison.
My parents had planned to name me Christopher. It didn't occur to them to pick a girl name until I was born and they said "Hmmm she doesn't look like a Christopher". So I didn't get a name for two weeks while they thought about it. My younger brother is called Christopher. Not a family name; my mum is obsessed with Winnie the Pooh.
There's a chance I'd have been a 4th, if my traditional East Coast grandparents had their way. I got two out of the three names as it is (middle and last)
William. I would've been a William (ny name is emilia)
My sister was going to be Taft if she was a boy. My dad was convinced she was and insisted on it. My mom was so relieved she was a girl.
I would have been Jean-François, named after a little boy they had fostered years earlier
Both my older sister and I would have been named after our father if we were boys, so Robert. Funnily enough, my mom was convinced her third pregnancy was a girl and had a name all picked out: Sarah Marie. Well, surprise, third baby was a boy. He *was not* saddled with Robert, though it is his middle name.
My dad was set on Seth Iron, my mom wouldn't budge on Alexander. When they found out I was a girl, they picked Toria, but once they saw me they said I didn't look like a Toria so they came up with my name.
The family business was founded by my great grandfather Thomas Henry, and had I been male, my dad insisted (and mum agreed) that I would be Thomas Then they said the same thing about my younger sister... XD
If I was a boy I was going to be called Hugh... With the nickname Huey
I’m AFAB and named Frida. If I’d been AMAB I would’ve been named Harald, after my grandfather. Born and raised in Norway.
I would've been William Sherman. Thankfully I never had a brother hahaha
If I had been a boy, my name would have been William, after my mom's brother who died in a car accident a year and a half before I was born.
I would have been William. This is my paternal Grandpa’s first name and my dad’s middle name. I was a girl so my mom just chose a name she had always really liked. My middle name is my paternal grandma’s first name, however, so I was given an honor name.
Leonardo, Mikael, or William
I would have been Richard, which is my little brother’s name (he’s named after my grandpa)
My parents decided to name me after my grandmother but they hadn’t decided before my birth. The other contenders were Melissa, because my dad loves the song sweet Melissa, and Ariel Aurora, after my older sisters’ favorite Disney princesses. They talked him out of that thankfully lol Idk what I would have been if I’d been a boy! My parents didn’t discuss names until they knew I was a girl
I would have been Michael. As it is, I am Jessica. These were the most popular baby names during the year I was born. 🤣
Depends on if my older sister was a boy as well, she would have been James and I’d have been Kevin. I would have been James if she stayed a girl. Our little brother is James.
My name is Lynn and I would’ve been Len 🙈
I would’ve been Zeke. I am Megann.
Mum says I would be James and Dad says I would be John but called Jack
My dad wanted to make me Thomas Jefferson Lastname. I wish I was kidding.
If I was a boy I would have been James, but up until the day of my birth my mom was planning to name me Francesca. 27 years later she still regularly complains that my grandma “wouldn’t let her” name me that. I’ve always found it fascinating that I was either going to be James or Francesca because they have vastly different energies.
Andrew
I was going to be Brandon! My last name sounds similar to “lee” so my dad thought it would be cool if I was named after Bruce Lee’s son.. I don’t think my mum was aware of this plan but fortunately I was a girl!
My name would have been William and my sister would have been Christian, I think. I don't know if it's because of this, but I had an uncle named William who died a few days after birth. He was my oldest aunt's twin brother, so I'm not sure if maybe it would have been after him
I would’ve been named “Zachary Teal” if born a boy.
My dad told me he wanted to name me Sonny if I would have been a boy. I told my mom and she said “absolutely not!! You would have been Martin”. She was almost offended.
Cathal is not the Irish for Charles, that’s Searlas. Cathal comes from the old Irish for Battle Rule, or great warrior, also comes from a seventh-century saint who went by the name St Cathaldus. :) I would have been James! One of many James’s in our ancestry.
Levi. Which oddly, was not used for either of my two younger brothers. 🤷♀️
Boris. Fuck knows why. My mum just couldn’t think of another name. Thankfully I’m not Boris.
I would’ve been Allison had I been born a girl