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

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

My mom wanted to name me Mary Anne. Thank the gods my dad wouldn't let her name me that. I hate the name Mary; it's boring and common and makes me sound like a nun.
If I was a boy I would've been named Jerimiah. And I think they also considered Sebastian, which I love. My dad liked Treavor (I think that was it), but my mom hated it.
I ended up being Ema. Yes, it's Ema, not Emma, but it's pronounced the same.

[la-jolie-vie.livejournal.com]

I think I might like Ema better than Emma!

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

I like it better, too. It makes more sense to me because no one pronounces both Ms in Emma. Em-ma, Em-a. It's also more unique. But I hate it when people spell it wrong (which is all the time) It makes me really mad.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Technically, the double m is supposed to indicate that the previous vowel is shorter... so people pronounce it em-a rather than eem-a.

BUT... I agree that Ema actually looks a lot nicer and more fresh, and I don't think anyone would ever mispronounce that as eema (correct me if I'm wrong!)

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a rule that the first vowel can only be long when the last vowel is silent?

[istytehcrawk.livejournal.com]

If so, the name Ida breaks it.