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

[drunkontea.livejournal.com]

I'm Chinese and was born with the name Jiayi (pronounce j-eye yee), but when we moved to the US they chose an english name for me to go by. Originally, they were going to call me Peggy (ICK!), but my grandmother and uncle convinced them to go with Jacqueline. Now my name has been officially changed to Jacqueline Jiayi.