If you had been born the opposite gender, what would your name have been?

[Lyric]

If I'd been born a boy, my parents were going to name me Michael Paul. What about you? :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

1. Patrick

[JoDog]

88. Me too!

[Rising Phoenix]

2. Gregory Michael

[Red State Rebel]

87. Aw geez, you hit both ex-husbands in one name!! nt.

[fizzgig]

3. calvin, i'm sure

i'm named after mom's mom and i'm sure she would have named me after her father had i been a boy

[laylah]

25. No, I wouldn't have done that to

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:

[fizzgig]

37. i'm not saying it would have been a bad name

i kinda like it

:hug:

[Shakespeare]

4. Robert, after my dad.

Instead, I'm Robin.

[TZ]

5. Steven

After my grandpa Stanley who died a month before I was born

[flvegan]

6. Samantha.

My mom even told me that if she had had a girl, that'd been her name.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. Monkeyfunkess

[SarahB]

8. Samuel

Or so I'm told. :shrug:

[greenbriar]

9. Sam Allen

would have been cool

[Rob H.]

10. Angel Dawn

I don't like it, not one bit. x(

[Arugula Latte]

49. I wouldn't let that one slip out to your buddies...

I'm sure they'd love to refer to you as "Angel Dawn" from now on. :D

[Rob H.]

55. LOL, too true

which is exactly why that particular secret dies with me. :P

[Chan790]

11. Jamie

Same as it is now.

[LiberalEsto]

12. Peter

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.

[billyskank]

13. Billie.

[taterguy]

14. Tatergal

Obviously

[huskerlaw]

15. I'm not entirely certain, but

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. ;)

[BlueJazz]

16. Veronica...which I rather like but being a Male....I don't want to spend my day Fighting...

:)

[HERVEPA]

17. Susan Joyce

[hippywife]

18. Frederick.

No doubt about it because it's my dad's name and they considered naming me Frederica. :eyes:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

19. Probably my dad's name

Michael. I think. :P

[AggieGal]

20. William Cody

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.

[Critters2]

21. Dean Harris. The inverse of my dad's name.

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.

[NMDemDist2]

22. probably the same as it is as a woman

my name is gender neutral

[ThomCat]

23. I have no idea.

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

[Lyric]

26. Omg! You're a twin? That's awesome!

I had no idea. :hi: :hug:

[ThomCat]

30. He's my evil twin.

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. :(

[LiberalEsto]

65. Thomas means "twin"

according to baby name books

[sarge43]

24. Probably a riff on my dad's name - Charles or Carl n/t

[kineneb]

27. Kennon

so Mom fiddled with the letters a bit.

[LeftyMom]

28. Stephen. nt

[DarkTirade]

32. I dunno, you always struck me as more of a 'Steve'...

:P

[LeftyMom]

35. Dad's already Steve.

:shrug:

[YDogg]

29. Diane

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. I don't know what my parents would have done, but I would choose Alexis or Gretchen.

[MrSlayer]

33. Ms. Slayer.

More than likely. :P

[iris5426]

34. David.

[malta blue]

36. Don't know...but if my dad had not been in Vietnam, my name

would have been Carmen or Sharon.

Not sure whether I am gathering good karma by being glad that he was away.... :P

[Skittles]

38. mmmm.....probably Terry, a brother who was born 11 months after me

:D

[ZombieNixon]

39. Maya.

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:

[soleft]

40. Marco Tulio

Did I mention I'm Italian?

[Generic Brad]

41. Generic Brandi

[Lyric]

44. Oh, wow. Brandy is my name :)

Definitely not generic, though. ;)

[kentauros]

42. They never told me that one...

...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 ;)

[Cabcere]

43. My parents said that they weren't really set on a boy's name for me

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:

[femmocrat]

45. Michael

That is my brother's name, so he got it instead!

[raptor_rider]

46. I was the last of 3 girls

"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.

[Arugula Latte]

47. "Grayson" or "Gray"

How bizarre ... Instead, I came out with two X chromosomes and was given a very frivolous cheerleadery name. Thanks, Mom and Dad. :eyes:

[JVS]

48. JVSa

[IzaSparrow]

50. My parents told me

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!"

[spindrifter]

51. Nicholas, after my dad.

[last_texas_dem]

52. Allison Michelle

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!

[grace0418]

53. Edward or Theodore.

Eddie or Teddy, I guess.

[SeattleGirl]

54. Same as the name I have now.

:hi:

[electron_blue]

56. Waker - wth is up with that? My mom won't say where that name came from

but that's what I would have been named.

[last_texas_dem]

60. Was your mom a J. D. Salinger fan, by any chance?

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.

[electron_blue]

72. oh maybe. I'll ask her. She might fess up if I asked her directly.

And I did recently find out I was named for another literary character. thanks for the tip!

[ceile]

57. The same one I have now.

Just spelled differently.

[bikebloke]

58. I had an aunt who was supposed to be a boy.

They were going to name her(him) James. She was named Rosalie instead. But as a lifelong joke, everyone called her Jimmy.

[mitchum]

59. Elizabeth

[Ramsey]

61. Cebern

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.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

62. Probably something

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.

[WildEyedLiberal]

63. Probably James

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.

[Blue-Jay]

64. "XX-Jay"

respectfully submitted,

XY-Jay


(honestly, I have no idea. I never asked.)

[Hawkeye-X]

66. probably Zelda Edith

my first name is Zachariah, named after my grandmother whose name is Edith "Zelda", but NO-ONE calls me that!

[Lil Missy]

67. I would have been named after my father.

[Mutley]

68. Michael Timothy

After my Uncle, Timothy Michael, who died when he was 15.

[The Wielding Truth]

69. Leslie or Ashley or Sam

[CreekDog]

70. Temeah

:hi:

[InvisibleTouch]

71. Akela.

Self-chosen.

Male or female, I wouldn't allow someone else to determine my identity.

[Tektonik]

73. Eléanor

[lizziegrace]

74. The Greek word for Mike

Micala?? The first-born son is always named after the grandfather. Papoo's nickname was Mick.



:)

[MrsMatt]

75. I don't have a clue as to what masculine name I may have been given, however

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.

[Duppers]

76. the same

go figure. ;)

[Miss Carly]

77. Brandon

Carly

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

78. It seems like it would have been Keith, but I could be wrong

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.

[elshiva]

79. Elisha. It's a Biblical man's name, the prophet Elijah's disciple.

[mikelewis]

80. Allota Falangie

[Jamastiene]

81. They were going to name me Kasey either way.

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.

[Connonym]

82. Connonym ;-)

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.

[WinkyDink]

83. Dennis. Absolutely.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

84. They didn't have a boy's name picked out...

They were pretty sure of themselves, weren't they? :rofl:

[Lyric]

85. I was the same way when I was pregnant. I was SO sure

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. :)

[yellowdogintexas]

86. I am fairly certain the name Henry would have been involved. My mom would

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.

[MissMillie]

89. SensitiveNewAgeGuy

:shrug:

[raccoon]

90. I would have been a Junior. :puke: nt

[Ariana Celeste]

91. Alex

don't remember what the middle name was gonna be