My name really is
Kerry! I have three older brothers, John, Robert & Alan, who are all close in age and I came along 10 years later, when my Mum was 39 and Dad was 42. An afterthought?
During her pregnancy with me, Mum says she was sure I was going to be a girl, but she apparently thought all sons, 2 through 4, would be girls!
That's not the reason I was given a girl's name, though . Incase they had another son, they had already short-listed Stephen or David as names for me. When my brothers visited Mum in hospital, apparently there were major tantrums about my parent's choice of name, such as "But Muuuuum, you caaaaan't name him after
Stinky Stephen Smith at school!" So, in desperation, my Mum turned to the woman in the bed next to her, who had also given birth to a son and asked, "What have you named your son?" She replied, "Kerry" and the rest is history.