[Verginius Rufus]

When her little girl was born, her mother could not have known that her baby would someday want to pretend to be a boy, so naturally she gave her a girl's name. The "dead name" is the name given at birth.

Of course there are other reasons why a grown person might not like the name he or she was given at birth. If there was only a way for the parents to determine if the baby would later be happy with the name.

[FlingWingFlyer]

My kids and grandkids were all quite happy with their names. It never dawned on them to want a different name. Well, there was my middle boy who kept asking us why we didn’t name him Brian. He got over though as he got older. Brian?