What would your parents have named you if you'd been a GG?

[Cristi]

I'm curious about something.

We all have the luxury of naming ourselves. We can shift through every name in the world until we find the one that fits how we see ourselves.

But a GG gets given a name at birth and, for the most part, keeps it for life whether they think it 'fits' or not. Plus, I personally believe that a persons name effects their self image a bit and, in a small way, helps shape who they become.

So... have any of you ever had a conversation with your parents in which they've told you what they would have named you if you'd been a girl?

Now parents know LONG before birth if the baby is a girl or boy, but back when I was born parents usually had a boy name AND a girl one picked out since they didn't know the babies gender until the moment of birth.

I've never asked my mom what girl name they had picked out, but it did come up in conversation one time that the boy name I have was almost different... and I would have preffered the one they DIDN'T use! Oh well.

I think if I ever find out what girl name my parents had picked out, I'd change to that and just 'make do' with it whether I like it or not... just like every other woman has to do. It couldn't have been too bad, they did a pretty good job coming up with my sisters' names.

[EveMarie]

Wow seems I'm the first to reply…

My mother told me up front my name would have been Sally…

Don't know how "Mark" came from that, but that's what she said.

I would have preferred Michelle, or another softer type name, but now I have the power oveer it so I chose "EveMarie"

xx, Evie

[Cristi]

I like 'Sally'

BTW: While thinking about names, check out this page. It is an interactive name explorer that lets you see how popular any name has been over the decades. My real name was mildly popular in the 60s, but has gone downhill since.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

'Sally' was very popular during the 30s-50s but has pretty much vanished as of the 90s.

[EveMarie]

Interesting, My mother's name was "Sandy" or "Saundra" if you will, so when she said mine was to be Sally, it kinda made sense, I guess.

when I married my 3rd wife from Mexico I actually made a name up for our son "Doñel" pronounced like "Don't Yell" without the "t". My wife thought it sounded like a girls name, but I stuck to my guns, and to this day he's preferred "Daniel", so go figure

[Zenith]

Zenith of course...

Probably Julie or Jennifer...sticking with the "J"s here...

[Mariah]

my parents were going to name me Stephanie, so I took that as my middle name.


Mariah

[KateSpade83]

I'm lucky; my real name is Jesse - and that often gets confused as Jessie - the girl name version. So helpful on my credit card too when enfemme as they still take Jesse as a girl's name. I'm so happy I wasn't a Michael!

[Amy Hepker]

I wish I knew, I asked my mom one time and she came up with a name but, she said she really did not remember what it was way back when I was born. She said she probably would have named me Anne, after her, but I don't think so or she would have named one of my 3 sisters Anne, after all they were born before I was.

[MelindaHow]

Sadly, I don't know. I have never asked my Mom.

[Laura_Stephens]

My mother never told me what my name would have been. Hopefully, it would have been Laura. I LOVE that name!

[crystal99]

I was told i was to be called Kate if i was born a girl, but i opted to call myself something more exotic, Kates a little boring (sorry any Kates out there)x

[Chari]

According to my great Aunt, everyone thought my mother was going to have another girl and talked to me in the womb as Charlene Catherine. Even as a young child I remember my Mother and older sister would sometimes call me "sissy", but discovered later they were saying "CC" - initials for my girl name.

[Holly]

I would have been Eileen. When I was a kid I knew I was really in trouble if my mom called me by my first name and subsitiuted my middle name with what would have been my girl by birth name!

[Tasha T]

My parents flat out told me that I was supposed to have been born a girl and they were going to name me Cindy.

[MsEva]

My parents flat out told me that I was supposed to have been born a girl and they were going to name me Cindy.

Me too! Mom held out hope, but alas four boys, one younger brother. Poor thing! If she only knew it was three and a half boys and one half girl!

Anyhoo, my dad, God bless his soul, used to try to tease me by calling me Danielle when in the day I wore long hair. If he only knew!

[Tina B.]

Mom had wanted another girl, and had the name Karen Susan, which by southern standards would have come out more as Karen Sue, But I decided to go with something more in line with my male name (Used my male initials so monograms work both ways).
Tina Lynn Betterman

[linnea]

This is easy for me to answer because my mom told me on a number of occasions that she would have named me Elizabeth and called me Betsy if I had been born a girl. She also told me on several occasions that she had wanted to have a girl. She stopped short of saying that she wished that I had been born a girl, but she had me try on dresses when I was quite young and she had me wear girls' panties throughout my elementary school years.
I didn't really want to use "Elizabeth" as my femme name though it is a name I like very much.

[Melanie R]

When I first came out to my wife about my dressing 28 years ago she came up with my name, Melanie Ann. I later found out from my mother that before I was born my parents had chosen the name Melanie Ann if I was born female. She never told me until several weeks before her death in 2003.

[Tedi]

I brought up the subject of names with Mom one day, why she and Dad named my brothers what they did, where they came up with my name.. Etc.

I asked.. well.. what if I had been born a girl, (Mom and Dad definitly wanted a girl on the third try!) She kinda rolled her eyes and with a bit of a discusted voice said.. "Mary". I knew right away why she did that.. It's Dad's mothers name. Although Mom and her got along ok.. it wasn't a real loving relationship. I didn't press her to see if there had been any other names discussed, but I suspect that Mom might have had some other ideas.

[Jennifer Devine]

Hannah

[trisha59]

I would of been Julie.

[Sarah...]

I would of been Julie.

Yep, me too! Julie.

Sarah...

[Emma26]

They would have named me Emily.

For my "chosen name" I was going to be Emily, but the first friend I came out to thought that Emma was better (probably because she knew a lot of Emilys. XD)

If I were to ever get a legal name change it would probably be Emily, even though I go by Emma with my friends.

[Leasa Wells]

I was named after an aunt and Lee works for the male an female. But I like the Lisa better so i combine them as Lisa Lee.

[Harley]

I was supposed to be Shawna, but was a boy. Mom was pissed when my Aunt used the name a year later. So my sister is Cindy. I wish I was Shawna