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Mon Mar-31-08 04:55 PM
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If you had been born the opposite gender, what would your name have been? |
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If I'd been born a boy, my parents were going to name me Michael Paul. What about you? :hi:
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87. Aw geez, you hit both ex-husbands in one name!! nt. |
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Mon Mar-31-08 04:57 PM
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i'm named after mom's mom and i'm sure she would have named me after her father had i been a boy
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:50 PM
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you. Now, Austin (his face middle name...another story) or John (his real middle name) would have been in there somewhere. On the other hand, had I been a boy, a Calvin I surely would have been. :hug:
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Mon Mar-31-08 08:04 PM
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37. i'm not saying it would have been a bad name |
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After my grandpa Stanley who died a month before I was born
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My mom even told me that if she had had a girl, that'd been her name.
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I don't like it, not one bit. x(
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:51 PM
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49. I wouldn't let that one slip out to your buddies... |
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I'm sure they'd love to refer to you as "Angel Dawn" from now on. :D
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which is exactly why that particular secret dies with me. :P
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Mon Mar-31-08 05:17 PM
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after my mother's maternal grandfather. They eventually gave the name to my brother. Thank heaven they didn't name him after my mother's father -- Boris.
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Mon Mar-31-08 05:29 PM
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my mom and aunt were pregnant at the same time, though my mom was due first. She couldn't come up with another girl name, so she stole the name my aunt had picked out. Thankfully, my aunt had a boy. Had I been a boy and my mom had still stolen my aunt's choice, I would have been Adam. ;)
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Mon Mar-31-08 05:29 PM
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16. Veronica...which I rather like but being a Male....I don't want to spend my day Fighting... |
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:18 PM
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No doubt about it because it's my dad's name and they considered naming me Frederica. :eyes:
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:24 PM
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19. Probably my dad's name |
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My Dad's first name and a name my Mom liked. I like my girl name much better.
My husband would have been - Michelle Stephanie. I am not to crazy about that name.
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:45 PM
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21. Dean Harris. The inverse of my dad's name. |
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I was almost "Deana", but my mom balked at the last minute. No offense to any Deanas here, but I'm just as happy this way.
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:46 PM
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22. probably the same as it is as a woman |
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my name is gender neutral
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:47 PM
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My parents were expecting a boy, just not two of us. So they only had a boy name picked out. That went to my brother.
Then they had to come up with another boy name all of sudden when she delivered a second kid. :P
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:50 PM
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26. Omg! You're a twin? That's awesome! |
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I had no idea. :hi: :hug:
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We have nothing in common, and haven't spoken to each other in about 10 year. :shrug:
Other people have close families. We're not so lucky. Nobody in my family seems to like almost anyone else in the family. :(
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according to baby name books
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Mon Mar-31-08 06:48 PM
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24. Probably a riff on my dad's name - Charles or Carl n/t |
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so Mom fiddled with the letters a bit.
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Mon Mar-31-08 07:36 PM
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32. I dunno, you always struck me as more of a 'Steve'... |
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Mon Mar-31-08 07:22 PM
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31. I don't know what my parents would have done, but I would choose Alexis or Gretchen. |
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Mon Mar-31-08 07:53 PM
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36. Don't know...but if my dad had not been in Vietnam, my name |
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would have been Carmen or Sharon.
Not sure whether I am gathering good karma by being glad that he was away.... :P
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Mon Mar-31-08 08:08 PM
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38. mmmm.....probably Terry, a brother who was born 11 months after me |
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Mon Mar-31-08 08:40 PM
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And then it turned out that my mom's cousin had a daughter and they named her Maya. Then they had a son, and he got my name. :crazy:
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Mon Mar-31-08 08:41 PM
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Did I mention I'm Italian?
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:19 PM
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44. Oh, wow. Brandy is my name :) |
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Definitely not generic, though. ;)
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Mon Mar-31-08 08:46 PM
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42. They never told me that one... |
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...only that they had seriously considered calling me "Wolfgang." Luckily, lucidity took over and they named me "Eric." They felt "Wolfgang" would have gotten me teased too much in school ;)
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Mon Mar-31-08 08:48 PM
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43. My parents said that they weren't really set on a boy's name for me |
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or a girl's name for my brother, so I guess that worked out nicely. :P I think I would have been named Jason, though, and they were leaning towards Sarah for my brother if he had been a girl. :shrug: :hi:
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That is my brother's name, so he got it instead!
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Mon Mar-31-08 09:40 PM
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46. I was the last of 3 girls |
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"IF" I was a boy, it would have been Sean Michael. However on the fly, the last week before I was born, Angelique Jeanette was chosen for a girl, so I am.
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How bizarre ... Instead, I came out with two X chromosomes and was given a very frivolous cheerleadery name. Thanks, Mom and Dad. :eyes:
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I came out with my bits strategically placed in between my legs and the doctor thought I was a girl! They named me Erin Elizabeth. It was an honest mistake, but it was on April Fool's Day, so the doctor says "April Fools! It's a boy!"
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Mon Mar-31-08 10:12 PM
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51. Nicholas, after my dad. |
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Which are both names that I like, so that could have been cool.
What's funny is that my dad's cousin who is a few years younger than him ended up naming his daughters Allison and Michelle, so my potential names did at least end up getting used by someone. Especially odd is that my parents both swear that they never discussed the names with my dad's cousin; apparently they just had similar taste in girls' names!
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Mon Mar-31-08 11:19 PM
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54. Same as the name I have now. |
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:46 AM
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56. Waker - wth is up with that? My mom won't say where that name came from |
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but that's what I would have been named.
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Tue Apr-01-08 12:53 PM
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60. Was your mom a J. D. Salinger fan, by any chance? |
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I was just wondering because the only place that I have seen the name "Waker" was in his stories about the Glass family- Waker was one of the seven kids. But perhaps it used to be a more common name or something.
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72. oh maybe. I'll ask her. She might fess up if I asked her directly. |
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And I did recently find out I was named for another literary character. thanks for the tip!
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:54 AM
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57. The same one I have now. |
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Just spelled differently.
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:18 AM
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58. I had an aunt who was supposed to be a boy. |
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They were going to name her(him) James. She was named Rosalie instead. But as a lifelong joke, everyone called her Jimmy.
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If I had been a boy, as the oldest, I would have been named for my dad, but since I was a girl, my younger brother got the honor.
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from the family tree. There was a lot of that. Hopefully not named after great great uncle Jethro. Besides being a dumb name, he was killed at Fredericksburg or Spotsylvania or someplace like that. Not a good omen in my opinion.
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It's my father's middle name and my mom has always loved the name, so that's probably what they would have called me.
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respectfully submitted,
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(honestly, I have no idea. I never asked.)
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my first name is Zachariah, named after my grandmother whose name is Edith "Zelda", but NO-ONE calls me that!
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Tue Apr-01-08 07:02 PM
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67. I would have been named after my father. |
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After my Uncle, Timothy Michael, who died when he was 15.
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Tue Apr-01-08 07:08 PM
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69. Leslie or Ashley or Sam |
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Self-chosen.
Male or female, I wouldn't allow someone else to determine my identity.
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Tue Apr-01-08 09:23 PM
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74. The Greek word for Mike |
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Micala?? The first-born son is always named after the grandfather. Papoo's nickname was Mick.
:)
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Tue Apr-01-08 09:41 PM
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75. I don't have a clue as to what masculine name I may have been given, however |
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my mother confessed that they tossed around "Candace" and "Rhonda" for me. I am SO THANKFUL they didn't name me either, but rather chose a very common middle name for my first name.
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:26 PM
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78. It seems like it would have been Keith, but I could be wrong |
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My brother is Kevin. They went with Lisa instead. I understand it was either Lisa or Lori, and I'm glad they stuck with Lisa, because I'm not the Lori type.
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:29 PM
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79. Elisha. It's a Biblical man's name, the prophet Elijah's disciple. |
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:42 PM
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81. They were going to name me Kasey either way. |
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And they did. The rest would have been different, but they never said what they would have been. They ended up giving me 4 names and then my last name, 5 names total. I hate it. I want to drop several of them and only use Kasey for my general well being.
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actually, John. Which is what they named my younger brother. John Thomas to be exact. It's sort of hilarious because my mom still has no clue that John Thomas is a Brit euphemism.
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84. They didn't have a boy's name picked out... |
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They were pretty sure of themselves, weren't they? :rofl:
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Wed Apr-02-08 05:02 AM
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85. I was the same way when I was pregnant. I was SO sure |
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that I was having a girl that I didn't bother picking out a boy's name. Then I had an ultrasound 30 days before my due date that clearly showed proof that I *definitely* wasn't having a girl, lol. I spent the last 30 days scrambling, trying to figure out a decent boy's name.
If OktoberKid had been a girl, his name was going to be Rhiannon Elizabeth. :)
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Wed Apr-02-08 06:12 AM
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86. I am fairly certain the name Henry would have been involved. My mom would |
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not have agreed to anything less than naming her son after her father and brother. Possibly Richard, for my dad's Grandfather would have been there.
I had a long last name so our first and middle names (2 sisters) were all short and uncomplicated.
When my mom was preg with my baby sister, the boy's name she came up with at the time was Henry Willis...my other grandfather's first name was Willis. Since I ended up named for the 2 grandmothers, it stands to reason a boy would have been named for the 2 grandfathers.
I would have used Henry somehow if we had a son but we had a daughter.
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90. I would have been a Junior. :puke: nt |
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don't remember what the middle name was gonna be
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