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Anonymous
| Noah for a girl?! That's funny. I was flipping through a book at BRU about cool baby names and it said it was "cool" to name your daughter an old man (I think they actually said geezer) name like Harold! I don't think any names are safely ALL BOY, if that's OP's concern. These days everyone is stealing the good (and bad) boy names for their girls! |
Anonymous
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Miley Cyrus's sister is named Noah.
Avery - street Aubrey - boy but sounds like girl Emery - university (I know, spelled Emory) Logan - airport |
Anonymous
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I'm old fashioned, so these seem like they could easily be boys names or girls names. As for Logan, definitely boy. And Noah or Harold for a girl? Why, with all the beautiful female names out there would you name your daughter "Harold?" That's just....wrong.
On another note, it may be "cool" to give a girl a name traditionally associated with boys, but there is a stigma against the opposite. Fear of 'feminization' maybe? too bad, a lot of beautiful male names have become nearly exclusively associated with female names now..... |
Anonymous
| I think Aubrey is a boy's name and Audrey is much prettier for a girl. Reminds me of Audrey Hepburn . . . . |
Anonymous
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OP, the names you listed are all the type that if I saw them on my son's class list I would have to say, "Is this person a boy or a girl?"
So, I think they are unisex names. I wouldn't go with a unisex name because it will cause problems when a child is an adult and sending out resumes and getting interviews. And as a child, he/she might miss out on birthday parties if parents assume the child is one gender when he/she is actually the other. |
Anonymous
Huh? Cause problems with gettingi nterviews? Who wants to work for a company that illegally discriminates based in gender anyway? And if a name is something like Robert and a parent is only inviting girls to their child's princess party, that's one thing, but is a parent who is only inviting one gender to a birthday party honestly going to just assume with a name like Emery? I would think most people choosing to invite only the classmates of their child's gender would be careful to be sure about the gender of each classmate! |
Anonymous
| Noa (without an "h") is a very popular girls' name in Israel and I've started hearing it around here |
Anonymous
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boy, girl, boy
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Anonymous
LOVE this. Though I have two goddaughters named Avery, so I guess I need to disagree on that one. |
Anonymous
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avery -- boy (know one, remember one from Charlotte's Web!)
aubrey -- girl (went to school with one) emery -- boy (could be a girl... have never met one. just sounds boyish to me) Logan -- boy, definitely Aubrey sounds girly enough to me that I wouldn't name a boy that. The rest I personally would name the way I felt it fit, but wouldn't seem weird to me the other way. |
Anonymous
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hitching onto this post, what about Ariel? I always thought it was a boy's name (had a crush on an Ariel in college) but since little mermaid seems like it's more girly now.
and to the OP: Avery: either Aubrey: girlish, though I wouldn't be shocked at a boy named aubrey Emory: boy (although Emery, different spelling, maybe either). Logan: Boy Noah: boy |
Anonymous
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The names listed by the OP are girls' names.
FWIW, there's an old slow song from the late 70s (I think) that goes "and Aubrey was her name --- a not so very ordinary girl or name..." |
Anonymous
Emery sounds like a boys name and the other 2 are girls names. 
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Anonymous
| There's a little girl named Emery in my son's K class. And I know a handful of Averys under the age of 5 -- and all are girls (despite the fact that Murphy Brown named her son Avery back in the 80s). |