This happened to my sister's friend Scarlett, and she told it to us last Halloween. She swears that her family will back her up if we ask them, although we never have.

My mum wanted to call me Poppy and my sister Daisy. Presumably she wanted another three daughters after us called Lily, Marigold and Honeysuckle, and together we'd have been some twee flower-themed version of the Jackson 5. Fortunately for me, it fell to my Dad to go to the registry office, and so I ended up as Jess…