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My great-grandmother wasn't given a name at birth. She was just called baby girl even after her parents had another baby girl whom they did name. This went on for 5 years until her brother who was 10 started calling her Ollie and told his parents that she needed a real name so he was giving her one. Her parents just went with it and from then on she was Ollie. Even when she was telling me this in her 80s I could see that it upset her. She was still very angry that her parents never bothered to give her a name and said that's why she was very careful with picking out her children's names, especially her daughters, because she didn't want them to feel like she did.