At the vet’s office this week, as Sadie sat on my lap in the waiting room, I tried flipping through a magazine.
That didn’t really work and I ended up just petting Sadie, but I managed to catch a glimpse of one article that sparked my interest.
What did your older child want to name your younger child? (Props to the kid who wanted to name their brother Mufasa. Awesome.)
This article made me laugh because my mom told me that I had very strong opinions when it came to naming my sister, Leslie. At one point the name “Wendy” was briefly discussed and I apparently had a fit because I wanted to be named Wendy since I loved the movie Peter Pan. In my four-year-old brain, if I couldn’t be Wendy, nobody could be Wendy.
I also think it’s interesting to ask your parents what your name would’ve been had you been born the opposite sex. I would’ve been Andrew. I like that name, so it would’ve been fine with me!
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning was another glorious two-egg sandwich served on top of a Thomas’ whole wheat English muffin with muenster cheese and raspberry jelly.
Plus a hot mug of foamy peanut buttercup coffee!
Questions of the Morning
- Do you know what your name would’ve been, had you been born the opposite sex?
- Did you have any opinions regarding the name of your siblings? If you’re a parent, did and of your children have an opinion about their brother or sister’s name?
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My parents never said what they would name me if I were a boy but they did consider naming me Morgan or Brooke before they settled on Jaren.
I’m the younger sibling, so I had no say, whatsoever. I don’t even think my sis could really talk when I was born, so she couldn’t have a say since she couldn’t speak.
If I were a boy, I would’ve been Levi Jackob, after my two grandfathers. It worked out. Levi is my cousin, Joey’s, middle name, and Jackob is my cousin, Jake (though it’s still his middle name).
Hi Julie – I just signed up for my first half-marathon and was wondering if you could give any suggestions on energy gels/ways to refuel during a race? I want to train with whatever I will use on race day so I am looking for some options! Thanks
hi jessica! i loved gu chomps. they’re tasty and not as icky to me as regular gu. they’re more like fruit snacks.
I was nameless for about 5 days so I’m pretty sure my parents didn’t have a boys or a girls name picked out. Other female names that were in the running were Stephanie, and Mary Teresa (MT for short, so I probably would have been called “empty”).
That’s so funny, my mom’s name is Mary Theresa! Everyone just calls her T for short, though. Maybe I’ll start calling her “empty”. Never thought of that 😉
Sure do, if I were a boy I was going to be named Tyler. I have two younger brothers and I do not remember wanting to name the first one but I really wanted number two to be named Jordan for some reason, lucky me (and him) my parents decided it would be his middle name!
Love all the responses! kids are so funny. I was older when my little bro was born… but my bf wanted to name his sister Little Lulu. She ended up with Stephanie, but Lulu has stuck around as a nick-name b/c Steph is super cute and tiny – and Cindy Lou in the Grinch Stole Christmas was very popular when she was younger.
They actually thought I WAS a boy until the day I was born… I guess either the tech was an idiot or the ultrasounds just weren’t that great in the 80’s! My name was going to be Keegan (which I kind of actually like!) I am an only child so I never got to have any fun with naming other siblings.
My favorite name in the article you posted the pic of is definitely ZUMA APPLESAUCE. Kids are so ricidulous. hahaha
My freshman year of college my roommate was named: (first name) Holly, (last name) Wood. Holly Wood. For real. Apparently her dad wanted to name her Holly but her mom wanted to name her Victoria so they made some kind of bet and her dad won.
I totally knew a girl in college who had the same name!
Before I was born, my older sister wanted to name me Safeway. As in the grocery store. This didn’t come as a surprise to any one consider her doll was names Roast Beef.
Thankfully my parents vetoed her choice.
WINNER!!! bahahahaha
Bahaha that is funny with kids and names….I have a friend whose parents let his brother pick his middle name. He picked “Thor” after the comic character!! And now he actually goes by Thor, which I think is great 🙂
I don’t know what I would’ve been, but my brother was going to be Paloma if he was a girl. Thank the good lord he was not. I think it’s a hideous name even though it means “dove” in Spanish. I also count my lucky stars my mother didn’t come up with it 2.5 years earlier for me!
I would’ve been Chase if I’d been a boy…..I like Natalie much better! I actually did get to name my younger sister. Well, kinda. My parents gave me two options and then they went with the one I picked!
I’m an only child, so no sibling naming here! My name was supposed to be Joanne, thankfully they changed it last minute! If I was a boy I would have been Joseph Jr. Not so creative!
If I had been a boy, I would have been named Michael. I just learned the other day that another girl name my mom had been throwing around was Melanie, like from “Gone With the Wind”. This discussion prompted my mom to call back and leave me a voicemail, saying that she was really glad that she chose “Anne” and wasn’t sorry at all. I guess I’d made her feel guilty . . .?
I would have been John. *yawn*
Braeden didn’t really care about Livie’s name. In fact, we asked him for input (input from a 2.5 year old was was important to us) and he kept insisting her name was “baby sister” and that she was in HIS BELLY. Of course.
To this day, my dad swears that he wanted to call me Ed, whether I was a boy or girl. Thank god my mom convinced him otherwise, because a little girl named Ed would not have gone over well in the playground.
I would’ve been a Michael, which is a tad odd since I have a cousin named Michael that is about the same age as me. Assume that was a nice little family tiff at first- ha!
I don’t know what my name would have been if I was a boy but right up till my birth I was suppose to be Chantal. When I was pregnant with my second my son wanted to call my daughter Bob, he was really into Bob the Builder at that age and when I got pregnant with my third he wanted to name him Simba or Nemocause he was going thru a Lion king phase and a Finding Nemo phase.My daughter was only 10 months old when I had my third so she had no preference just kept saying baby lol.
True story: my brother wanted to name me Howard Johnson (after the restaurant). Even when my parents asked him what he would want to name me if I was a girl, the name stayed the same (he was two at the time!)
I think if I was a boy, I was going to be Scott? I do know that I was almost “Danielle” until my dad vetoed it at the last minute!
My old brother’s name is Tyler, but if he was a girl his name was going to be Ashley… so naturally we all call him Ashley to tease him. 😉
If I had been born a boy I think my name would have been Gregory Dale. Not bad. Another girl option for my name was Rebecca Suzanne but instead I ended up Suzanne Louise. Suzanne, not so bad but Louise…..eh. I am okay with it now though because I was named after my grandma, Melva Louise. Yikes, Melva would have been BAD.
I don’t know what my parents would have named me if I was a boy but I do know they had a few ideas for girl names but they eventually settled on Tamara. Even though my dad calls me Lili since I was little.
I have an older brother so no name ideas for siblings BUT when I was 9 and we were getting a dog I wanted to name him KINKY. I heard the word, didn’t know what it meant, and thought it was perfect for a min pin. Yeah… we named him Chip 🙂
If I was a boy I would have been George Donald Crowe, IV. Noooooooooo. terrible.
very fancy!
My parents planned on naming me Gabriel because they thought I was going to be a boy. When I was in preschool and my mom was pregnant with my sister Erin, I told my teachers we were naming her Flower Lynn!
I would have been Kole if I were a boy. I have an older brother named Kyle and my parents wanted to stick with the “K” theme.
I dont have children of my own, but I have a friend that is pregnant with her second and her 3 year old wants to name the baby Cheese!
I was actually supposed to be a boy – and my mother wanted to name me David Jotham. JOTHAM!?!?!? WHAT THE FRESH HELL, MOM…Thank God I was a girl!
hahhahahaha
SYTYCD has started? I haven’t watched it in a couple years. Used to love that show!!
Weird that I haven’t seen one ad for it. I must not be watching enough tv.
If I had been a boy, my parents were going to name me Kevin James – James is my father’s name and my Mom always loved the name Kevin. I do not remember having an opinon on what my parents named my younger sister. However, family lore says that the day she was born my 4 year old self looked at her and stated “I am not impressed.” I still get teased about it to this day!
I have no clue what my name would have been if I’d been a boy… but I do know that she claims that she had never really heard the name Courtney when she named me. But I know SO many people named Courtney. Ah well. My aunt and my mom both have ‘K’ names, and my mom decided to go with the whole letter theme thing and gave my sister and I ‘C’ names.
I’m the youngest sibling, so the only thing I had any say in naming was our dog, Daisy, but I barely even had any say there.
Haha I don’t remember what I wanted to name my brother, but apparently I wanted my parents to change my name to Star! So cute, I know 😉 hehe
I LITERALLY told my mom this when she was pregnant with my brother (I was three): “I know a name good for a boy or a girl…Peanut Butter!”
So that was his nickname! Mostly we called him Peanut, and the name really stuck. Variations of it were PB, Peanut Brother & Butters.
My mom was convinced I was a girl and didn’t even pick a boy name. I was Kimberly till right before birth when my mom got worried I’d still be writing my name when all the other kids were ready to turn in a test (seriously, they also planned on 7y of school post-HS when they divorced when i was only 2…they were VERY into education). Someone came to the hospital and said “And how is little Kimberly?” and my mother (is it horrid to say she can be a smart a$$) replied “Cheryl is doing fine.”
My dad is Greek and tradition says you name boys after the father (my dad’s name is Anthony Georger so my brother should be George Anthony but my mom rebelled and named him George Alexander and he goes by Alex). Because of that, my dad pushed hard for Antonia for me, luckily my mom overruled him. If I was a boy I would have been Phillip or Nick.
If I were a boy I would have been named Nick. When my mom was pregnant with my younger sister I wanted her to be called Ariel because the 5 year old me was obsessed with the Little Mermaid :). Today I was on the lakefront path in Chicago running and heading to a paddle board class and I saw 3 Vizsla’s! They are so cute and so energetic! Have a great day 🙂
I think I would have been a Jason, which I’m not too fond of. My mom had the name Lauren picked out since middle school. She met someone with the name, loved it, and decided that if she ever had a girl, she would name her Lauren. She thought it was so unique… and then I got to school at age 5, and I was definitely not alone haha.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some celebraity named their kid Zuma Applesauce!
I tried to name my little sister Rainbow Bright, but my parents were NOT having it haha. And had I been born a boy, I would have been Christopher – which still makes no sense to me because when my brother came along 6 years later they named him Michael instead.
I would have been named Trip as a boy! Luckily my parents didn’t have to wait too long as my brother, who is named Trip (ok, really his name is James but he’s the 3rd so everyone calls him Trip), was borned just 3 years after me.
You know … I don’t know what mine would have been had I been a boy. I need to ask. I’m intrigued now!
My two sons were desperate that my unborn child would be called Serafina Pekkula if it was a girl (from the Golden Compass). Luckily out popped another boy who was named Will (from the Ranger’s apprentice books).
i wonder if Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner got the name Seraphina for their daughter from that movie!
I did hear that they let their firstborn choose the name for her sister so maybe it was. It’s pretty unusual, I’ve never heard it before.
haha! i love those books, too!
I would have been named Lee or Lance if I was a boy….my mom wanted to name me Tracy (also my bff’s name), but my dad thought people would make fun of it and call me “spacey Tracy”. Interestingly, my sister named me Kathryn Ann.
my older brother told my parents to name me benjamin! even after he found out i was a girl!
My name is Jessie and if I was a boy I would’ve been Jesse… so that was easy ;o) My name was actually supposed to be Jesse either way but the doctor told my mom when I was born that Jesse was a “boy” spelling so they put an i in it!
I also actually got to name my sister! My mom told me I got to name her if she was a girl and she got to name her if she had been a boy. Luckily I chose Jennifer Rose (after a soap opera that I saw my mom watching when I was little!) and luckily she was a girl because my mom picked out a really weird boys name.. haha!
My 5 year old brother wanted to name me Wiener. When my parents told him they were having a girl, he changed the name to Wienerette.
Julie- I love your blog, I just came across it a week ago and love reading it everyday.
If I were a boy, I would have been named Philip–so glad I was a girl. Some days I’m not thrilled with the name Caitlin, because there are so many of us and no one knows how to spell it, but I get so many complements on my full name that I could never change it!
thank you so much, caitlin!! and i like your name. 🙂
I don’t think my sister put in any name requests because she wasn’t very excited to have a younger sibling to share the spotlight with. If she did, it probably would’ve been a Disney villain, like Maleficent or Ursula.
I was almost named Caroline, but my aunt whose name is Carol argued that she wanted the name for her future daughter so they could be Carol and Caroline (barf). As it turned out, that’s not even close to what she ended up naming her daughter. I’m obsessed with the name, though, and plan on using it if I have a daughter.
Lol I love that name article. My older sister is Dawn and when my mom was pregnant with me she was insistent that my name should be Dusk. SO glad that my parents vetoed that one
Ha! Love that article. I was 5 when my brother was born and I wanted to name him either Pepper or Puzzle. Weird, I know. I’m pretty terrible at naming things in general. I had a pet rock named blowdryer and a cat named cat.
My parents kept my gender a surprise and didn’t have any names picked out until after I was born.
When my parents asked my sister what she wanted to name the new baby she said, without hesitation, “Bonnie Francis”. We still don’t know why hahah. Thank God it wasn’t up to her. Other names on the list were “Table” and my grandma suggested Tyrone if I were a boy since that’s where were from in Ireland. I’ll stick with Jess thank ya very much 🙂
My husband was very, very upset when his parents did not go with his suggestion for his younger sister…Michael Jackson. Apparently he didn’t like Lauren (two Lauren Rapps in the family now!) so he called her Michael Jackson for several months.
My older sister actually named me when she was 3. How she came up with it, I have no idea. But if I was a boy, my mom wanted to name me Johnathan or Brendan.