Names that could have been?

[istytehcrawk.livejournal.com]

What would you have been named if you weren't named what you were named?

Or, to be less dense, what other names did your parents consider for you and your siblings?

I am: Misty Lynn.

I could have been:
Joee (yuck - one of mom's top choices)
Brandee (yuck - ditto)
Daphne (meh - mom overruled because she didn't want me to be called Daffy)
Tiffany (yuck - ditto above, but Tiffy)
Scott Anthony (if I had been a boy) - (meh. Not horrible, but not great)

My sister is: Summer Lynn

She could have been:
Joshua Ray (yuck) (Ray was after her father) - this is now my cousin's name
Autumn

Comments

[stellarichards6.livejournal.com]

i'm naomi stevens (stevens being my grandmother's maiden name).

it depends on who you ask. my mother says that she wanted to name me "naomi rose" but my father didnt want me to be called "rosie" (he's from the south and calling people by their middle names is a very common occurrence). i was born w/ a winestain that covers most of my right leg, so i was "rosy" when i was born.

if i was a boy i wouldve been nicholas according to my mother and grady according to my father. my dad has a favorite uncle grady and i actually quite like that name, but my mother hated it. so much so that my older brother was named by our then 10 yr old half-sister because my parents couldnt agree (my dad wanted grady, my mother wanted jvnvlvsga which was a cherokee hero....the Vs are our 6th vowel, pronounced "juhnuhluhsga"). my brother's name is jonathan.

/novel.