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

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

There's something about month names that I like, but many of them (September, for instance), I consider more guilty pleasure names. Or pet names. Same with day names, and Friday seems like a nice tip of the hat to one of my favorite movies, His Girl Friday, but it would also make me think of Man Friday from Robinson Crusoe, who, even at 10 years old, just made me sad. Storm is another name that I like in theory, but don't see actually working on a person (unless they were maybe a mutant).

Was Steve chosen to honor someone? Did she just really like the sound of it?

My mother had decided that if she had one daughter, she'd name her Heather, and if she had a second, she'd name her Michelle. Or maybe she'd name the first one Michelle, and the second one Heather. My older sister ended up a Heather (don't really like that name, but I think it's better than mine), but I escaped Michelle (don't really like that name, although Shell or Shelly is cute) and was named Stephanie (which I don't especially enjoy, but I like being called Steph).