It could have been worse...

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

Recent posts got me thinking on my mothers list of maybe names, and I was interested to hear peoples comments

So, I'm a girl called Steve, just Steve on the birth certificate. I've grown to love it, but suffice to say I didn't used to and it brings with it certain ... difficulties. That said, in many ways I did have a lucky escape:

Names my mother was considering:

Storm (this was her number one choice right up until the last minute - she was still umming and ahhing when she registered me as Steve)
Angel
September
Friday

On the other hand, she also gave serious consideration to

Rae
Lois
Antonia
Sian
Natalie

Random selection, eh?

Any thoughts? Any near misses you would like to share?

Comments

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

My mother liked Rafaela a lot, but my father insisted Americans would mess it up. They both liked Tessa, so Tessa I became.

If I'd been a boy, I would have been Bruce — which is one of my all-time least favorite names, and has been since well before I found out about my near miss with it in an alternate gender universe. No idea how my Brazilian parents decided Bruce was okay in the first place...