THE NAME YOU ALMOST GOT

(July, 2024) Reddit asked, “What was the name your parents almost gave you?” Some of the responses:
– “My dad wanted to name me D’Artagnan. My mom wouldn’t let him.”
– “I was gonna be Emily but my Aunt stole the name for my cousin who was born a few months earlier. Now decades later my mom is still salty about it”
– “I’m a guy. Had I’d been born a girl however, I’m told the name “Ocean Leigh” was floated as a possibility. My parents were teenage stoners”
– “Eureka. I was a surprise twin. Thankfully they went with something much more normal.”
– “Daisy, until they realized how many small dogs had the same name.”
– “I was almost named Penelope Candice so my short form name would be Penny Candy. Mom vetoed that name.”
– “Wolfgang, which I think would’ve been cool.”
– “Valda… freaking Valda…. It was my grandmother’s name (she was not a nice lady) and thankfully my mom and her got into a disagreement right before I was born and she named me a very normal nice name instead.”
– “Rhea. My mom almost named me Rhea then thought classmates might call me diarrhea.”
– “Dukie. Yup I was almost a dookie.”
– “Maverick but my mom said no.” (* Here’s a true story you can pass off as your own. Morning Sidekick was once in a Walmart, a little toddler was running wild all over the place, his mother kept calling, “Maverick, come here! Don’t go off by yourself! Come here, Maverick!!!” She completely missed the irony.)
– “If I’d been a boy, I was gonna be Style. Ugh.”
– “Lovey. My Dad said No to my Mom wanting this name.”
– “My brother was actually named Darth as my dad loved Star Wars, but he changed it in his teens.”
– “Nemo. Luckily they didn’t, because then the movie came out about the fish.”
– “My mom wanted to name me Nick. Ended up being the family dog’s name.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What name did your parents almost give you?