Will baby girl named Harris be assumed to be named after Kamala Harris rather than mom’s maiden name?

[Anonymous]

In coming years, will she be faced with the whether she was named after Kamala or do people assume it’s mom’s maiden name/family name?

[Anonymous]

No. It will just be assumed she is a boy.

[Anonymous]

That's an awful first for a girl.

[Anonymous]

No. Kamala Harris will be the answer to a trivia game in 5 years.

But if you do this, OP, please give her a feminine middle name. She may not love being called Harris as a girl.

[Anonymous]

Who cares? Kind of an odd name for a girl, though.

[Anonymous]

It's not a great first name for a girl. And yes, a lot of people will assume Kamala.

[Anonymous]

Please just don’t. She will have to be exceptionally beautiful to pull off the name Harris. It is incredibly masculine and brings to mind the word “hair/ hairy” to boot.

[Anonymous]

Ooof. That is a middle name at best, please don't name a little girl "Harris".

But yes, if I met a female baby Harris I'd assume you named her after Kamala.

[Anonymous]

I dont get why parents do this to their kids.

[Anonymous]

I can’t think of many common maiden names that are worse suited for a girls first name. Collins, Evans, Smith I think you could get away with. Harris?? No. It’s supremely ugly and the only nickname is “Harry”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont get why parents do this to their kids.

Because they are thinking about themselves, and their family legacy, rather than their kids.

[Anonymous]

OMG at least use Harriet instead of Harris.

[Anonymous]

Yea there is a thing where girls are given surnames as first names. It can work. But this one doesn’t work.

It’s like if there was a thing where girls were named after cars, and you knew a Mercedes and a Sonata. So you decided to name your baby girl Buick or Volvo. It’s not going to work for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. It will just be assumed she is a boy.

+1
None of her peers will know who Kamala Harris is and our generation will have forgotten. It's a terrible first name boy or girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea there is a thing where girls are given surnames as first names. It can work. But this one doesn’t work.

It’s like if there was a thing where girls were named after cars, and you knew a Mercedes and a Sonata. So you decided to name your baby girl Buick or Volvo. It’s not going to work for you.

Mercedes is a culturally popular name not based off the car in Spanish Catholic families that I know.