Names poll

[pne]

At lunch today, we talked about the names we would have had if we had been born the opposite sex, and I thought I'd make a poll about it. (FWIW, my parents didn't have an alternate name for me, but they did for my middle sister, who they thought would be a boy. The gynæcologist, who had predicted her sex as male, ended up buying some girl clothing for my mother when he ended up wrong :D)

For "parents", read "people who gave me my name(s)", if appropriate.

And I realise I've forgotten an option on one of the last questions: "I go by a given name other than the first given name, but my parents intended for me not to go by my first given name but rather by that later given name" (Example: they wanted you to have the names Thomas and Andrew, to be called Thomas, but felt that Andrew Thomas sounded better than Thomas Andrew). Comment if that's the case.

[Poll #969380]

Comments

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

For #2, you forgot "I was born before it was possible to do ultrasounds to tell the baby's sex."

I don't know when that became possible in the US, but my sister is about to turn 23 and it wasn't possible for my parents to know if she was going to be a boy or girl. I have a cousin who's 17 or 18 and I know his parents did know and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Huh.

My middle sister just turned 28. I'm not sure, but always assumed, that it was on the basis of ultrasound pictures that the doctor predicted her sex.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I know the doctors predicted my sister would be a boy because she was so active. Her name was going to be Matthew Thomas (Thomas is my dad's name), if you're interested (her name is Susanna Lynn).

I have friends who are my age (28--well, I guess they just turned 29) who are twins and when they were born, the ultrasound technology wasn't even advanced enough to show there would be two of them (something about one of them "hiding"). Their parents didn't know until they were actually born.