What did your parents plan to name you if you'd been born the opposite sex?

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  • bluebladeblueblade Posts: 88,859
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    Claire
  • EStaffs90EStaffs90 Posts: 13,722
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    I'd have been called Matthew had I been a boy.
  • riverside 57riverside 57 Posts: 14,380
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    If I had been a boy I would have been called Michael after my maternal grandfather who died a month before my birth, but funnily I wasn't called Michelle when I turned out to be a girl, but something completely different. I went on to marry a Michael though :)
  • ItsTotesSoFluffItsTotesSoFluff Posts: 2,667
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    Connor

    My parents are huge Terminator fans as I am called Sarah....
  • Danny_GirlDanny_Girl Posts: 2,763
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    Norris!!!!

    Was born at my auntie Claudia and uncle Norris's. Without my mums consent, while she was in labour, my dad told them that to say thanks they would name me Claudia if I was a girl and Norris if I was a boy. My mum had been hoping for a boy but on hearing this started praying for a girl. Claudia is bad enough but Norris :o:o
  • lea_uklea_uk Posts: 9,639
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    They didn't have a possible boys name for me, but my brother would've been called Terri Louise if he had been a boy. He's called John by the way.
  • sodavlacsodavlac Posts: 10,607
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    No idea, but I was once asked if it would have been Sally. My name isn't remotely like Sally and I see no connection with my name and Sally. :confused:
  • gamez-fangamez-fan Posts: 2,201
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    Hmm as i recall i would have been named Elaine Fiona
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,864
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    I would've been called Daniel if I were a boy.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,990
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    Janey_Bee wrote: »
    My sister was going to be Sebastian...now I'm wondering if either of you are my sister! He he :-)

    I only have brothers and none of them are called Sebastian, but I guess it would have been after Seb Coe?
  • Carlos_dfcCarlos_dfc Posts: 8,262
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    Heidi - and I ended up as 'Karl'
    I think they must have had a Germanic 'thing' going on at the time.

    A coupla years later, my sister would have been Heidi, but apparantly I was constantly asking if my mum was going to have a 'Julie-baby' - They decided they liked the name, and so she ended up as 'Julie'.

    Then, a few months later, the second series of 'Daktari' came on TV, and they noticed I was referring to the Chimp 'Judy', as Julie (Well.... I was only about 3 at the time...) - and they realised what I had meant when asking about a 'Julie-baby'.
    So technically, my sister is named after a TV chimpanzee - I enjoy reminding her of that from time to time..... :D
  • hellsTinkerbellhellsTinkerbell Posts: 9,871
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    Odin....they were just back from a weekend in Holland.
  • O-JO-J Posts: 18,805
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    My parents didn't name me till after I was born, however she did know the sex of me before hand!
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,180
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    I was nearly called Bartholomew, before it was decided against at the last minute.

    I don't know what I'd have been called if I'd come out without a willy.
  • November_RainNovember_Rain Posts: 9,145
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  • November_RainNovember_Rain Posts: 9,145
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    No idea, I keep meaning to ask.
  • performingmonkperformingmonk Posts: 20,086
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    Nigel.
  • WolfsheadishWolfsheadish Posts: 10,400
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    James/Jimmy
  • xNATILLYxxNATILLYx Posts: 6,509
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    Gavin eurgh
    Thank god i was born female
  • ToriamathToriamath Posts: 1,083
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    Ben, I think
  • SherbetLemonSherbetLemon Posts: 4,073
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    Fraser. That was my mother's choice, but bless her, she never got the first names she wanted as my dad gave us them all!
  • AddisonianAddisonian Posts: 16,377
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    Sinead or - and thank goodness I wasn't a girl - Sharelle...
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