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[simbarel]

What, if any, were the alternative names for your kids/pets/house/car/etc.

Geoffie (cat) was very, very close to being Lloyd. Had Wally not been so emotionally attached to naming his son after James Hendrix, I would probably would have named him Adrian, or Frank (Francis is a middle name, for fun sometimes we call him Jimmy Frank.) And of course, there's always Henway.

Claudia was my early frontrunner for a girl. We also both liked RuthAnn!

I asked b/c I recently looked at Jimmy thinking that he could have been Adrian, and it seemed so wrong! Still love the name, but he is *such* a Jimmy to me.

[lexiemom]

Lexi's full name is Alexandra, but we also liked Chandler and Ashlynn. We didn't choose Chandler because DH couldn't say Chandler...he says it with an -sh sound instead. Heehee.
And we didn't choose Ashlynn because my niece's name is Ashley and we thought it was too close to her name.

[Luvsun]

I know what you mean Rachel.
We had both boy and girl names picked out for all three of our sons.
Our first son was going to be named Adam Jared - whenever he was born, because I love that name. I had that name picked out long before I ever thought of becoming pregnant.
But our last two - we changed their names a bit once they were born.
I don't know - it was just, once we looked at them and held them, it was as if we needed to change them. Does that make sense?
For our middle son, we had Zachary Ryan picked out - but once he was born he was definitely a Zachary Andrew! My father asked me if I realized that I gave him the name of two presidents?! No - that was just who he was!
And our third son - I wanted him to be Alexander Nathan. But dh was determined that once he was born - he was Nathan Alexander! And he is now Nate. It fits him perfectly!
I love thinking up names - even now.
To be quite honest - I am so glad I had boys - because I only like one out of the three girls names I picked out!
By the way - I think Jimmy is perfect for your very handsome guy!

[simbarel]

Originally Posted by Luvsun

By the way - I think Jimmy is perfect for your very handsome guy!

Thanks! I've always thought you had good taste in names, myself.

[Tonichelle]

I would have been Michael David had I been a boy (which I don't get as my mom promised to name her child after her dad, which is why I'm Antonia Michelle... my grandfather's name was Anton Michael.. so I don't get it!)

[MaryEL8775]

For DS, it was supposed to be Miguel Eugene after both of his grandfathers, but since I had a fallout with Bio-Dad, DS became Tyler Eugene *Eugene was MY dad's name* For DD, I had wanted KC Leigh but her dad, didn't like it so he named her. Yep thats right HE NAMED HER.... Samantha Lynn but I got my maiden name and married name for her last name, my maiden name first since we weren't married at the time.

[smilechaser]

My youngest daughter was going to be Chloee. But somehow she looked more like a Cheyenne! I couldn't imagine her as anything else now.

Had I been a boy I was going to be Bernard. BERNARD!?!?!?
Oh well, my sister was going to be Buford! Can you imagine....Buford and Bernard! What in the heck were my parents thinking....and thank God we were girls!

[DebiDebiDebi]

We had the usual girl boy names selected before out daughters were born. DD #1 (DaraLynn) would have been Darren Lucas and DD #2 (Diana Lanette) would have been Dane Lucas. We were set on the initials DLH since both DH and I have those initials.

As for Lucy (my yellow lab) I went back and forth between Lola and Lucy. Everyone wanted me to name her Lola, but when we got her, I just knew she was Lucy! DH was dead set on naming his yellow lab after his mother, so there was no debate; Aggie it is!

My DH drummed up a huge campaign to have one of his grandbabies named "Bret", but alas, DD #1 and SIL chose Tristan Harley and Carter Allen.

[graygables]

DD1 would have been Nicholas Eric. DD2 would have been Eric David. DD3 was going to be Eric David, too, I couldn't let that one go, but when DD4 came along she was going to be Gavin Nathaniel. We knew names early on in the process as it was important to me to have that settled. DD1's initials would have been NES either way, so I called her Nessie, esp when she was doing somersaults in my belly!

Had I been a boy, I'd have been Derek to continue with my parents "D" theme (ugh )

Our dog, Zoie, came with her name, although, "nonobaddog" gets tossed around quite a bit along with "outnow".

[eff051102]

Well DD might have been Olivia, Sophia or Emily. The middle name was always going to be Frances
so that never changed. Then I finally talked DH into Eleanor Frances but sometimes we call her Ellie.
If we were having a boy then she would have been named Ethan Franklin. My DH is Edward Franklin
so the middle name would fit and Frances is the girl version of Franklin. So now DH and DD are both EFF.

[Teresa]

We had names we liked, but didn't make a final decision until after we met out kids and let them tell us who they were. No, they're not adopted from childhood, they are all "natural" children - although I don't like that way of explaining. Adopted kids are natural also!!

So - Samantha Nicole (mine and my high school boyfriend's "Love Child") was the only one to be named what we had decided. He picked the first name for a girl, I picked the middle, and if it had been a boy - Patrick (my pick) Justin (his pick). We called her Nikki for about 6 weeks, but Prince's song "Darling Nikki" came out about then, and it was a (clears throat) "little" suggestive. Samantha it became. And I've never really liked the name. But, she is NOT Sam!!

Kathryn Ann was almost Rachel Kathryn. Don't remember if we ever had a boy name picked out - just knew it was a girl.

Lauren Marie was Ellen Mabel or Troy Alexander until she looked at us and said "Nope, it's me: Lauren"

[gwugirl03]

My name would have been Joshua, if I had been born a boy. My parents had two girls names picked out...Erin and Brynn. Dad decided to name me Erin.

[alisonhinsley]

I was going to Isobel but got it changed to Alison as the parents thought Isobel was too common. My Aunty alway insisted on calling Izzy as a child. My sister, I think had the worest deal, if she had been a boy Hubert Clarence - named after the grandfathers. Luckily she was a girl and got called Alexandra (my choice as the parents couldn't decide between Elizabeth or Elysbeth)

[Grandmasam]

Had either of the DDs been male, I would have named them "Thomas Owen" (after their dad and after my favorite uncle who had died a few years before) - with the last name of "Moore" no one would have ever forgotten their names! DH didn't like the name, though, so it's a good thing they were girls! The funny twist to the tale is that years later, when we were divorced and he was in another relationship, he named his son "Thomas Owen"! At least Uncle Owen was memorialized somewhere!

[poohmaine]

If I had had a boy, he would have been named Kyle Benjamin: Kyle because we both loved the name, and Benjamin after my DH.

Evelyn was going to be Helen (so I would have had Hayley and Helen) or Rachel. But DH didn't like the names as much as Evelyn and he want two "H" names.