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

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big fan of any of those alternate names except maybe Sian or Natalie. Your mom definitely has some interesting tastes, though!

My dad wanted to name me "Loretta Lynn." I'm not making this up. He and Mom actually argued about it in the delivery room. Thank God my mom won out. :shudder:

If I had been a boy, my mom said I would've been Paul after Paul McCartney. Her backup name for me was "Stephanie," in which case I probably would've wound up a cheerleader or something.