What was your name going to be if you were born the opposite sex?

[Paragon]

My parents told me I would've been "Theresa".

Thank God for my Y chromosome.

[Rick Myers]

1. Dale

But guess what... They made it my middle name!!! After Dale Evans!!! They even had the audacity to name me Ricky Dale Myers, but my birth cretificate was amended when the Catholic Church refused to baptise me since there's no Saint Ricky.

Dodged a bullet there... They settled on Richard.

But DALE??? Oy!!!

[RMJ]

2. Michael Steven

on edit: oops. Reverse that. Not Steven Michael

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. Philip David

at least that is what they named my brother who was 2 yr younger than me

or maybe Paul David

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. John Michael.

For my father and great-grandfather. And they were going to call me Mike.

[Sapphocrat]

5. Manuel

Not "Man-u-al," but "Mahn-well," after my Portuguese grandfather.

In which case I would have taken back our original family name of Rodrigues (S, no Z).

[Jonte_1979]

10. Are you from Barcelona?

;-)

[synthia]

6. Devrey..........yuck

[Arugula Latte]

31. Never heard of that one

How did they come up with it?

[Disandra]

7. George Michael....

...I was born in 1976. Thank every good thing in the universe that I was female...can you imagine the crap I would have taken in the 80s?!?

[Sapphocrat]

12. Did YOU ever miss a bullet! LOL n/t

[Disandra]

15. No Kidding! :-)

[Jonte_1979]

13. Wake me up before you go go

;-)

[Disandra]

17. Now I have that song in my head...

....thankyouverymuch.

:puke:

[Red_Viking]

18. He and I have the same birthday

No kidding. But he's older. With more facial hair.

:)
RV

[Solly Mack]

50. Me, too! I would have been George Michael

whew....

[Jonte_1979]

8. Astrid

That's a girl's name, btw.

[lynndew2]

45. Mine woulda been asshole(well it was anyway)

LOLOLOL just kidding. I never asked em and I really dont have a clue.

[zbird]

9. Ted William (after baseball great Ted Williams).

Dad wanted to name me Theodora Willamena, but I got grandma's name instead (Zenia).

[JohnKleeb]

11. dont know early on

they knew I was gonna be a guy
I am John Howard and no my folks arent right wing Aussies who love the pm of Australia. Story is
my mom's dad was John Francis Beltz and my dad's dad was Howard William Kleeb hence John Howard Kleeb and also they were both lefties politically and handness. Other than that I think they were different people though. Both good people, I wish I knew my grandfather Kleeb because he died and I know my other one well because he is still living.

[DarkPhenyx]

14. Nice thing about hippy parents.

It was gonna be Phenyx either way.

[Red_Viking]

16. Jonathan David

Named for both grandfathers. But, I was a girl. I have a fairly ordinary first name, but they used my grandmother's name for my middle name. It starts with Z but is not Zelda. No one ever guesses. My grandma was named for her mother's favorite teacher in school.

Apparently, my mother had some maniacal focus on producing sons, because my younger sister was supposed to be Sean David. Oops!

RV

[Jonte_1979]

19. Zorro?

;-)

[Red_Viking]

20. Bingo!

I don't always wear the mask, though. It itches in the summertime.

RV

[HawkerHurricane]

44. I think everyone will be wearing them.

They're very comfortable.
(From the Princess Bride, about masks)

[Ilsa]

21. John Marshall

It's my younger brother's name. I was the third daughter.

[ronnykmarshall]

38. That's my uncle's name.

I really like the name "Marshall" as a first name. Thank god my parents didn't agree.

[Melsky]

22. Dylan

Yes, after Bob Dylan. But they named me Melissa instead. I never liked that name, and now there are a million of them about 10 years younger than me. I go by Melsky offline too.

[HawkerHurricane]

23. "Sarah"

after my mother's sister, who died a week before I was born.

I named one of my daughters after her.

[Arugula Latte]

32. *Sniff*

That's sweet. Brought a tear to my eye.

[kanrok]

24. Ummm...

Slutella.

[Arugula Latte]

33. We all call you that behind your back, anyway

:evilgrin:

[starroute]

25. Mark Steven

Mark after my father's father, who was Morris. (Originally Moritz, before he got to this country.) I'm not sure where the Stephen came from.

I'm grateful to have been saved from it.

[NightTrain]

26. Deena Lisa

n/t

[Nikia]

27. James Jr.

After my father.

[Arugula Latte]

28. Grayson

Huh? Another Gray? Would I have been recalled?

[VelmaD]

29. My mom swears...

I woulda been Burhyl after my dad. But that didn't happen to my little brother so I figure my dad's good sense would have prevailed.

Darth Velma

[leftofthedial]

30. leftofthedialette

or so I'm told

[Lady President]

34. Richard Ross

If I had been a boy, I would have been named after my two grandfathers. It's a decent name.

[morningglory]

35. Lucky I'm not named Tondaleyo.

Redneck parents. Was going to be named James Montgomery after the doctor, but Brenda Lou arrived (after Brenda Breeze, the comic strip character). Oh, well, Brenda is a Gallic or Welsh name meaning fire brand, male equivalent: Brendan, so I like it.

[ronnykmarshall]

36. Vickie

Vickie Lynn Marshall. The same legal name as Anna Nicole Smith.

[LWolf]

37. Robert

n/t

[eyesroll]

39. Scott Howard...

Which, for you eagle-eyed observers, is the name of Michael J Fox's character in Teen Wolf.

[greekspeak]

40. Raylene

BIG OLD UGH!!!

[soleft]

41. I would have been Marco Tulio

Thank god for that x chromosone.

[Breezy du Nord]

42. Oscar!

Not really, that's just what my dad told me to upset me.

(what's wrong with Theresa? That was my grandma's name, but she really didn't like it either, she just went by her middle name.)

[arwalden]

43. Loretta.

[SoCalDem]

48. Get Baaaack, Loretttta

I have no idea what I would have been called..

But I planned on naming my 3 daughters...
\

Katherine
Dianne
Susan...



BUT,


I ended up with
Scott Alan
Michael Joseph
Steven Robert

[Rowdyboy]

46. Jacqueline Dianne...

They never considered that I might be a boy...

[ButterflyBlood]

47. Hannah or Amy

[Solly Mack]

49. George Michael

yeah yeah....I've already heard it.

[Ein]

51. Juanita

John