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[PamelaK]

Grace Galvan (named for both of my grandmothers) would have been Celeborn Tiberius (her dad's pick) if she had been a boy. Thank goodness she was born a girl!!!! Although he also made an argument for Galadriel Cae as a girl's name, but since we found out we were pregnant with Grace just a week after my grandmother passed away. (BTW did you notice his theme with the names???? Yes, he is a big Tolkien freak.)


My dad often joked that my name was going to be Gertrude Florinel just to get a rise out of my aunt. I am soooooooooo glad he and mom decided that I was to be named Pamela Renee.

[SarahJ]

For DD1 I didn't have an alternate name chosen if she had been a boy. But up until she was born she was either going to be Madeline Rose or Ainslie Rose. We went with Madeline. For DD2 we chose Victoria Helen as soon as we knew it was a girl, but Ainslie was our second choice for her as well. DD3 was almost Jennifer Ainslie, but we switched the names around instead and she is Ainslie Jennifer (DH likes to call her AJ). We finally got our Ainslie and sometimes I wonder why we waited to use the name because I love it. If either DD2 or DD3 had been a boy we had chosen Joseph Lane as the name. No need to use it though.

[goofysdtr]

DS1 would have been Kayla Nicole.
DS2 would have been Ashlyn Marie.

[Joanne929]

DS1 was always to be Joshua David (I don't remember if we picked a girl name?)

DS2 would have been Sara Catherine if he was a girl, but ended up being Jeffrey William

DD2 HAD to have a "J" name at this point and it was hard - there are so many girl "J" names that I just didn't want for different reasons but DH liked Jamie (I really didn't) and we couldn't agree on a boy "J" name either believe it or not!

Thankfully, at the point she needed a name, I didn't care too much and I guess Jamie grew on me, so she is Jamie Cathereine (neither of us wanted Sara anymore).

The dog was named by Josh when he was 4 - he wanted to call her Batman, I wanted to call her Indiana/Indy (then she would be Indiana Jones!) but somehow she ended up being Shelby Woo (it used to be a show on Nick he watched sometimes I think).

The cat (Necco Wafer) was before kids and that's what I picked, period.

[Cam22]

Stefanie was always Alyss (now her middle name) from the beginning, but it took us several months to decide on Stefanie. If she had been a boy, she would have been Mark Andrew.

[momtolexi]

Cute thread. I was suppose to be a "Lisa", but my mom's brother "stole" the name for his daughter. My daughter, Alexandria (Lexi) Kay, if a boy would have been Jackson Lance. We had three girl names picked out (Jordyn Kay, Lindsey Kay and Alexandria Kay), but it took two days for us to choose a name. We asked three very important people in our lives to help us choose and they all chose a different name...finally we asked the nurse and she picked Alexandria Kay...so Alexandria Kay it was!

[Lemap760]

Andrew was going to be Megan Catherine if he was a girl. My ex-husband wanted Charles Francis II but I quickly put down that suggestion.
I was going to be Eric if I had been a boy.

[fairestofthemall]

My first dd boy name was Aidan Paul. Her girl names were Ava or Avery but when she was born she looked like a Halle as in Halle Berry. My dh wanted to change the e to and i so she became Halli Danielle (Danielle after me ).

My second dd boy name was Aidan Paul. Her girl name was Karis Elizabeth from the word go though we did not tell anyone. We did throw around other girl names but we were set on Karis.

My ds boy name was/is Aidan Paul! We did talk about Wyatt but obviously we love the name Aidan. His girl name was Gemma, though my dh did not know this. I knew Aidan was a boy just as I knew my girls would be girls - a mommy instinct.

I would love to have another girl and name her Gemma! I love that name. I should not have anymore babies as I almost died from having Aidan. So unless we adopt a child I suppose I will need to get a dog or cat.

Oh, yeah, my name would have been Colin had I been a boy.

Danielle

[Caldercup]

My DS was set to be "Emma Jane" if he hadn't shown up on the sonogram as OBVIOUSLY a boy!

He was almost nicknamed "Skip" because he just squeaked past being born on leap day.

The only "almost" name I know of in our family was that I was almost named "Amber."
Eileen

[DawnDenise]

I was going to be named Scott Alan if I was boy but I came out a girl and they named after my father. Dad is Dennis Dawson and I am Dawn Denise. My mom didn't have a boy named picked out when she had my sister.

[Carousel96]

I already posted DD's almost name, but I have to share the Twilight Zone almost name story from DH's family.
When I was pregnant, DMIL found the baby name book they'd used. Written inside the back cover were their top choices. They had three boys - Richard, James and Donald. But their top three girl names were Joan, Linda and Carol.
Their daughters in law are -- Joanne, Linda and Carolyn.

[Kristen C.]

my DS1 would have been Pauline Samantha (my grams name and nickname), and DS2 would have been Ashley Rose (a combo of my DSis middle name and DSIL middle name). with the DS1,Devin Micheal, I got to name him....DS2,Thomas Joseph, we opted for family names (combo of DFIL 1st name and DBro middle mame).

[smilechaser]

Originally Posted by Carousel96

I already posted DD's almost name, but I have to share the Twilight Zone almost name story from DH's family.
When I was pregnant, DMIL found the baby name book they'd used. Written inside the back cover were their top choices. They had three boys - Richard, James and Donald. But their top three girl names were Joan, Linda and Carol.
Their daughters in law are -- Joanne, Linda and Carolyn.

That is reeaaalllllyyyy creepy! But kinda cool too!

[debsta922]

Nick would have been Kayley Rose which is kind of funny because Dh's cousin named his daughter that and she was born 3 weeks after Nick (we did not tell each other names either). I didn't have another boy name picked out, Nicholas was my first choice. I had also thought of Isabella for a girl, until my brother heard it and wouldn't stop making comments.
For pets, my cat was originally called Dexter (my stepson was in to Dexter's Laboratory) until we found out that HE was actually a SHE so we called her DeeDee (Dexters annoying sister)

[Figmentlvr427]

I don't know what I would have been called if I was a boy. Probably the family name: Rocco. I did have other names before my parents decided on Jennifer. I remember that they were toying around with Carrie or Jessica for me. My middle name is my moms middle name: Ann. I know my husband's other name would have been Randy Joseph instead of Ricky Joseph. Thankfully he's a Ricky. Our cat was tough to name. DH wanted to name her Sunshine. I named her Rosie. She's orange and was just so cute. We do have our kids names picked out, at least their first names, if we ever get the chance to have a baby anyways.