I don't think there was a second choice... at least I was never told there was... my dad liked names that cannot be shortened.... my name cannot be shortened
There is a guy in my area, and I have met him ------------- first name is Bulwinkle. Another guy who has been in the newspaper a lot for crimes, his first name is Pink Paint. I don't know their middle names.
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I don't think they had a second. I know if I had been a boy my name would have been Robert. My children, debated and I won on our Daughter she has an unusual name. I lost on our son's, they have normal names. I wanted to name one of them Dimitri.
My parents don't seem to remember specifically what the second choice was, but they did strongly consider Neil as well as Brian. "Nevan" combined their desire to have a name end in -n and begin with n. I'm glad they chose the one they did :)