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

[anaphylexis.livejournal.com]

My father wanted to name me Kimberly, but my mum vetoed that. Dad says his next choice was Alexis. Which is my name and I love it. Wasn't the least bit common when I was growing up and yet not at all considered strange or exotic. Dad said he picked it because it's the name of an old movie star - Alexis Smith. I guess he thought it'd be neat to have the same name (yes Smith is my last name).