What name were your parents going to give you, but changed their minds? Mine was Jordin....O.o So strange.....

well.... they were gonna have my first name be my korean name...... but instead they got me a weird first name and made my korean name my middle name.
wow i said name alot.....

me it was going to be like rose or taler but my dad was all most going to give me brier rose i'm so glad that an't my name

well, I was never going to have a different name. It was either going to be Alexander if I was a boy, but since I'm a girl, it is Alexandria. Too bad my parents weren't very creative, huh?

I was just simply named after my father.... :/

I was name after Kelsey Grammar, (don't know who the heck he is)

Kelsey is a boy and a girl name, So either way I would of got stuck with the same darn name!!!

i never tell my name!!!heheh!

My parents didn't even name me >>;; Thats how creative THEY are.

Then how the heck were you named?

Hmm..... I can't think of any way to be named if not by your parents or legal guardian.

I was almost named Brooke or Christina. And I thank God everyday for that. I really, really would've been ticked off at my parents for naming me that.

No offense to anyone who have these names.

i was almost named... Evan.cause they didn't bother with seeing if i was a boy or a girl before i came out... lucky for me i came out a girl...obviously.... but after they discovered my gender they almost named me, Jessica.... such a common and .abused name. coughjessicasimpsoncough. i'm much happier with the one they decided to give me. splee! they did something right for once. :lol:

My parents were going to name me Grace. Don't know why, but...

Then they settled on Taylor.

If i'm correct Kelsey Grammer is the guy from Cheers/Frasier the one that plays Frasier Crane.... Either him or the guy that played in Enceno Man, the guy that was the caveman if you didn't see that he also played in George of the Jungle. But i'm pretty sure it's the guy from Cheers.

so I was name after my parents favorite actor in thier favorite show, d*** *puts head down in greif* I wish they gave me a japaness name like my grandma chose for me.

Yeah but didn't Cheers start airing during the early 90's...

If your not japanese yet you have a japanese name =/ That would be awkward, not to mention you'd probably be picked on alot.

So if your not japanese and you have a japanese name... that would be stupid. Believe me.

I am japanesse, well half japanesse, ( I got a mix variaty on my dads side: Russian, Germang, hungarian, Russian, Yu-go slavian etc etc.)

my grandparents were in the japapnesse internament japans in the US during WW2. My grandpa went got a position as translator between the Americans and Japanesse during the

besides Kelsey is shipbuilder in japanesses!!

(Better than my sister whoes name means plate, )

Wait? What? So are you half by BLOOD? If you are then it would be ok, but if your less than half, or not japanese by blood than your better off without a japanese name. Believe me, nowadays random people are naming their kids with japanese names because they're anime addicts or they wish they were japanese or something.

Then people would have the impression that your some guy with no life that wants to "pretend to be asian".

Besides, what japanese name are you talking about?
I'm hoping its not something common... like Kyo... and the list goes on...

anything would be nice.

except what one of my japanese relative got name: Naruto (seriously he did get name Naruto)

If I recall correctly Naruto = Whirlpool or something like that.
>>;; I dunno... thats a name I wouldn't name my kid.
Reminds me of a toilet lol. Whirlpool goes round and round~

Uzumaki means spiral, Naruto means *tries not to laugh* fishcake. My relative is name means Fishcake *laugh*

besides I got some famous peopel in my family:

Great aunt: captian of the U.s champion olympic fencing team
mothers cousin: race care dirver and got his own magazine
Aunt's brother in law- origonal creator of Scooby Doo

I was almost named about 10 things...
Jenny
Kelly (if she did, I would have the same name as my friend Kelly. XD)
Karen
Alice (Mom said "easier to call Alice in Wonderland")
Kathy (Yes my mom almost named me after my gramma ^^)
Katie (mom said "Nah." and gramma said "cute name, but doesn't fit her...")
Tasha (Mom said "hell no.")
Anna (Mom said "d***. Hard.")
Veronica (Mom said "OMFG! No way! ....xD archie and veronica....")
Natasha (Mom said "oh god make these names stop..!!!!)
and dad walks in and says "Alyson"
So that's what i was named, Proudly... and quite messedup.... people can call me names... "Alice-in wonderland" was a new one this year. I just laughed and said "my name ain't alice"

:blink: the day i was born was a hard day for Mom...
it says in my babybook...
Mom: I had such a hard time picking the names. *writes the list*
Dad: I had a truck route and i figured out the name from a Friend.
(xD sorry for the long post)

Haha. My parents were almost gonna name me Mia or Candence....I dont mind Mia, But if I was named Candence, then alot of people would have called me "Candy" And I really wqould have hated that...I quess Im happy with my name, though its to common...

My cousin is named Candice, so we call her Candy poo XD Why? Dont ask. One of them random moments.

I hate my name though. ;[ No one can pronounce it.

Yeah i thought Naruto means Fish Pattie or something along those lines. But Chrono said it's Spiral Fishcake heh.

And i do know how to pronuonce your name... It's really pretty simple, if you someone dosn't know how combined letters makes sounds then yeah it probley is hard to say.

*point at himself* my name??

No i wasn't talking about your name Chrono i was talking about Krazy's real name. It isn't that hard to pronounce at least to me anyway.

I would, if I had been male, been named Alexander Paul. My father, other than that, was determined to name me either after a ship or war veterans... >> the one cat he named was Agamemnon.

In th end, I'm really glad that he didn't name me, though the name I was saddled with wasn't that much better. The name I go by now I picked in third grade, so I'm not too sure it fits me that well, but hey, it's better than the other name. Perhaps it's not that bad, but it has a lot of bad memories attatched to it. I generally flinch inwardly whenever I hear it, regardless if it's referring to me or not.

Let's see... I was also named after two queens, to satisfy my dad, but I almost was set with the first name Margaret. That got changed to something a little more... old sounding. >> I feel like my name belongs in the Victorian Era, I swear...

As far as last names go, I envy people with an actual family name. Mine was made up by my great-grandfather on my dad's side when he fled several states to escape justice. So my surname was made up by a criminal, and my only living (we think) grandparent, my dad's dad, is a swindler and all around ne'er do well. Go figure.

As for famous people, I have quite a few in my family too, including Matt Groening (author of Life in Hell series, creator of Simpsons and Futurama), very distantly. (that's the only name I'll give out, though not the only one I could.) I think we all are related to someone famous; I know someone related to Elvis Presley, for instance, and another whose cousin, once removed, is John Lennon.

If I were female I would have been named Natalie Bou or Natalie Maria, just because my mom liked the name maria...and if you shorten Natalie Bou to Nattie Bou you get the nickname for national bohemian beer.

And other names of mine;
Nathan
Vladdamir
Jas
many things.....

If they're distant relatives, than that means your relations are as good as none.

And we weren't talking about famous people or relations either, This is about names.

(Actually, only one's distant, that's why I wouldn't name others - my uncle's a multi-millionaire painter, who lives in a mansion and is the utter picture of eccentricity. And I was replying to Chrono's earlier comment, but sorry for straying off-topic. Speaking of, my dad's an authority when it comes to ship models, and has about twenty pieces scattered about museums. They're that good.)

Anyways. Vladimir sounds cool, at least to me. Very Russian. Still, for the sake of growing up, it's not too great to have a name that stands out or is unusual, for kids are cruel and will often fasten on such things.

How lovely, you must be so famous. I wish I was just like you. *sarcasm*
Not the time to brag, dear.

Blood, you'd be a good Dimitri >>;; dunno, Vlad reminds me of someone much older.

My parents were Hippies so I was almost named something like moonbeam ,sunflower, twilight rain..God and of those would of been embaressing. The normal names I almost got stuck with.
Anna
Amy
Christine[middle name-_-]
Becca
Natasha
Abby
Rose[would of been cool]
Taylor
Izzy
Elizabeth
Zoe
Crystal[would of been kinda cool]
And Katie. [Ewwwwwwww{No offence to those who have that name}]

So,I'm sorta glad that I was named Jennifer.

if i was a boy my name was going to be adam. They also considered naming me Jocelyn...Jocie for short....that could have been kind of kewl i guess... o well...no one hardly calls me by my real name anyway

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ahh.. my parents are asian.. so they try to name us close to our chinese names.. I was almost named Sandy.. x__x.. I'm so happy that the person who was doing the name change thingy when we first moved here said that Sandy was a really common name or something like that..

I dont see what's wrong with being called Candy as a nickname. I have that as my internet nickname or any other occasions nickname..

I can't complain about my name ^_^ I dunno what my name would have been if i was born male.

i was almost named seth or elie because im a boy and if i was a girl emma or abagail lol i would hate that :wnk:

if i was a boy i would b name andrew.. but since i'm a girl i'm name Maria.. but my real name is Masia (since i'm russian) or Marusa (if i'm ukraine) i knoe.. weird..i hate my name though (no offence to anyone named Maria) :wnk:

I looked at my baby-book again and there's alot of names I forgot to list XDD

Erin(I woulda really loved that name)
Cindy (My mother wrote a comment: Then people would call her Cindy Lauper)
Sheryl
Risa (mom's comment: would've been too close to Rissa.)
Alissa (I woulda killed myself if my name was Alyssa.)

I think Katie is a good name. My parents woulda named me Trisha.
But I'm stuck with a dumb name, easily made fun of, I wish I had a cuter name like ..Winly Odule...xD