I had been a boy I would have probably been called Phillip. After 3 boys my parents were just expecting a 4th to complete the set, so they really hadn't thought about a girl's name. So they were caught a little by surprise and (according to my mother) Dad chose my name in a big hurry. It's a fairly old name, and the full version is still uncommon. (For years the only other place I saw it was on tombstones or in the cast list of 1930's movies.) My parents never shortened my name, but everywhere else I became Rosie or Rose.
When we found out that Jack was on the way we spent days talking about names. We drew up a short list of both boys and girls names, but it seemed that we had a lot more girls names to choose from, and only a few favourite boys names. We were all set to wait and see which name suited him, but it took all of about 5 seconds after he was born to see that 'Jack' was just right. In the end we complicated things by following the family custom of naming him for his father, but using his middle name for day to day.
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Date: 2005-10-25 11:35 pm (UTC)When we found out that Jack was on the way we spent days talking about names. We drew up a short list of both boys and girls names, but it seemed that we had a lot more girls names to choose from, and only a few favourite boys names. We were all set to wait and see which name suited him, but it took all of about 5 seconds after he was born to see that 'Jack' was just right. In the end we complicated things by following the family custom of naming him for his father, but using his middle name for day to day.