What was your name going to be?

No, as a matter of fact, they hadn't decided on a name for me until I was born. Dad's oldest brother asked if they could name me after him so dad asked mom and she agreed, as a middle name, and then she asked what he thought about naming me Robert as a first name. Dad said whatever she wanted was fine with him.

I was almost named Sylvia, after my grandfather, Sylvanus. Fortunately, I got Alice, after my dad's mom, and my middle name is Evelyne, after my mom's mom. I'm actually quite surprised I got the ancestor names, since I'm actually the youngest of four kids. You'd think the eldest would get them. My two older sisters got names my parents just happened to like, I think.

My mother said after the fact they wished they would have called me Paula Jean because it that would have included part of both of their names.It was on the table for a possible 3rd kid. They also said if I was a boy I would have been Scott or Larry Jay.

My parents had decided on names before I was born. They had decided on Dominique for a girl or Jeremy for a boy. Although at one point my dad had said they had contemplated on using Elizabeth.

Yes, my mom thought of naming me marinella, but I was named after my father. My dad won.

Both names are nice. I don't know if my mom had another name choices for me, she never told me anyway.