Names that could have been?

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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

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I'm Lauren and was almost
- Natalie (after a character in War and Rememberance; my dad, who had bad personal associations with the name, nixed it).
- Justine (after a character in The Thorn Birds--see a pattern?)
- Elizabeth
- Meredith
- Victoria

Had I been a boy, I would have been either Evan Robert or Evan Fisher (Robert is my father's name and Fisher my paternal grandmother's maiden name).

Middle sister was always Ellen, but youngest sister caused quite a dilemna, as the parents decided between
- Gretchen (mother's choice--she was obsessed with all names ending in -en)
- Margaret (father's choice)
- Catherine (the compromise)

Dad won, and she's Maggie.