My mom wanted to name me Adam Samuel S****. She wouldn't have because of the initials, but maybe if she was still married to her first husband I would have been named that.

Quote from: Elijah on July 29, 2013, 12:37:44 PM
My mom said, we never thought of a male name for you, we KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO BE A GIRL.

lame!

Exactly what my parents said.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhh!!!!!!!  In a word. Tracy is the answer. YUCK!!!! Apologies to anyone called Tracy. Please don't take it personally. I tried using it at one stage of my evolution. Nearly made me sick. Just something I had to do, in order to cross it off the list.

Just goes to prove, sometimes you have to go through some rough stuff to get to where you want to be.

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Catherine 

If I remember correctly, Julia.

I asked my mother this question and it was the 3rd name on my list (Stacey). The 2nd name on my list was Madison. She said if she could name me now, Madison would be it. That is also the name of my Great Grandfather who was very fond on when I was little. I didn't use Madison, because it was not a popular girls name until the 1980's. Prior to that it was mostly a boys name, so it didn't match well with the year I was born (1970).

I would have been named Sarah Elizabeth (last name).

It's basically the names of my two grandmothers... my maternal grandmother was named Elizabeth, my paternal grandmother was named Sarah. And my mom says that she would have called me "Liz" as a nickname because she really wanted to call me by her mother's name. (Her mother died only a few months before I was born.)

I'm sure I would have been okay with the name had I been born into it, but I'm not really a fan of the name "Sarah." It just seems a little plain to me, and a little too common. I am indeed paying honor to the name Elizabeth, though, with my new chosen name. I LOVE "Elizabeth" as a middle name, and I've loved it ever since Mom told me that that would have been my real middle name. So I'm either going to be "Carrie Elizabeth (last name)" or "Caroline Elizabeth (last name)"

Quote from: Jill F on February 10, 2014, 07:39:58 AM
I am from the Clan MacGregor.  I even have the kilts.  (Yes, guy clothes, that's it... I still technically never was a crossdresser.  )

We're probably very distantly related!

I recall asking my dad once when I was a kid what they would have called me if I'd been a boy and he said "Marcus."  I like that name, though it's the name of my least favorite uncle.  Dad's since denied saying that.  So I imagine it would have been James, which is a family name on both sides of my family.  I like the name James but not for me.  If I have a son I'd consider naming him that.

I would have received the name which my sister (born 18 months after me) got. Would have been Judith Anne. Can't say I feel like a Judith at all! Mind you, if it would have meant being born as a girl instead I would have taken it, beggars can't be choosers!

I actually asked that question when I was younger and they said Michelle which is just the girl version of michael, by then that's who I thought I was any way

Apparently I would have been Madeleine, my mom really had her heart set on it. I let my mom name me again anyway and she chose Jennifer this time. Not sure which I prefer really :p Madeleine would have been nice but I really like my name as well and my mom had a really nice reason for choosing Jennifer too

Quote from: Catalina on July 29, 2013, 04:28:33 AM
Bleh. If I was born anatomically correct, I would have been named Giselle.

*shudder*

There is nothing more stripper-like a name than that (No offense to any Giselles out there)! 

No doubt I would have been named "Divine" ...sorry but I could not help myself...LOL

Ok, kidding aside, the name I was supposed to be giving was Genevieve, after the French Canadian actress Genevieve Bujold 

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I would of been a Michael

Erin, I like it and I think I'm going to use it need a new middle name though...

It's the same name I have legally today, I took the name they would have given me, at their request. I love my name

Quote from: MeghanAndrews on February 17, 2014, 04:49:21 AM
It's the same name I have legally today, I took the name they would have given me, at their request. I love my name

Same.

First crack at transition I picked the name "Stefani" cuz I picked it when I was really little, but it never really felt right, I just felt obbligated to. My mother asked if she could name me and I refused cuz we weren't getting along at the time. Anyways, fast forward, and I decided to take a new name as I was going forward with my transition and I asked my mom what I would have been and (in lieu of my sisters name, Gioia) I would have been Abby.

Anywhoozle I loved the name and so did my family. It took me a bit to get used to, but now I feel like it fits me perfectly because everyone just calls me that (I really never interacted with people as much as "Stefani"). But, yeahh.

I'm not sure how its spelt, but it litterly sounds like "to buy us" so insta no, plus I'd just have to change it when I moved out  anyways to hide from my mom.

I wish I knew, I asked my dad, he "didn't remember" (not sure if serious or not) and mom just cried for a good 20 minutes when I asked her.

Quote from: Xhianil on February 17, 2014, 12:56:44 PM
I'm not sure how its spelt, but it litterly sounds like "to buy us" so insta no, plus I'd just have to change it when I moved out  anyways to hide from my mom.

Tobias, like the character Joe Spano plays in NCIS? I thought that was pretty much a guy's name.

I asked my mother this a few weeks before she died.

She said she would have called me Sarah. I asked why and she said it was the name of an older sister I would have had that she miscarried with a year or so before I was born. Then she said that until I was actually born, she thought I actually was a little girl, and had that name all picked out ready. She was one of those parents who didn't want to find out the sex until it was actually born. She said she had a feeling, and was surprised when she was wrong.

I wanted so much to tell her she wasn't, but I didn't.