Has Elliott always been a girls name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate giving little girls boys names. It's like saying there's something wrong with the girls names already there. People never name their boys girls names either, so it's pretty sexist.

+1 Giving a girl a boy's name seems to imply that being a girl isn't good enough. But you can name a little girl Elliott or Stan or Harry and she will still be a little girl at the end of the day. Why not embrace the fact that she's a little girl and give her a feminine name?

Being a girl is awesome. Women are strong. Our mothers, grandmothers and great grandmas were some mighty amazing women and they didn't need to be named Harold to be amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually have no problem with traditionally male names on girls. My daughter is Kyle and she is names after an old female friend whose first name was Kyle, too.

I think Elliot is cute for a girl. So is Ellis.

How do you feel about traditionally female names on boys? Is that also “cute”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate giving little girls boys names. It's like saying there's something wrong with the girls names already there. People never name their boys girls names either, so it's pretty sexist.

+1 Giving a girl a boy's name seems to imply that being a girl isn't good enough. But you can name a little girl Elliott or Stan or Harry and she will still be a little girl at the end of the day. Why not embrace the fact that she's a little girl and give her a feminine name?

Being a girl is awesome. Women are strong. Our mothers, grandmothers and great grandmas were some mighty amazing women and they didn't need to be named Harold to be amazing.

So women are strong and amazing, but they’re not allowed to name their daughters something unfeminine? Mmkay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate giving little girls boys names. It's like saying there's something wrong with the girls names already there. People never name their boys girls names either, so it's pretty sexist.

+1

Boy name for girl = "I really wanted a boy!!"

[Anonymous]

It's a boy name. Using it as a girl name is a fad.

[Anonymous]

I wonder where this will all end. Eventually Bob and Walter (to use two examples touted in this thread as definitely masculine) will become girls' names as well, and boys will be nameless? Or perhaps we will have an entirely ambigender pool of names--male Isabellas, female Philips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate giving little girls boys names. It's like saying there's something wrong with the girls names already there. People never name their boys girls names either, so it's pretty sexist.

+1 Giving a girl a boy's name seems to imply that being a girl isn't good enough. But you can name a little girl Elliott or Stan or Harry and she will still be a little girl at the end of the day. Why not embrace the fact that she's a little girl and give her a feminine name?

Being a girl is awesome. Women are strong. Our mothers, grandmothers and great grandmas were some mighty amazing women and they didn't need to be named Harold to be amazing.

So women are strong and amazing, but they’re not allowed to name their daughters something unfeminine? Mmkay.

Uhhh, they are "allowed" to name their daughters whatever they want to name them. But naming a girl Jack is not going to make her any more or less masculine. I would actually prefer to name my own daughter after a particularly influential female family member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where this will all end. Eventually Bob and Walter (to use two examples touted in this thread as definitely masculine) will become girls' names as well, and boys will be nameless? Or perhaps we will have an entirely ambigender pool of names--male Isabellas, female Philips.

Boys will start getting dog names - Fido, Lassie, Snoopy, Scooby Doo...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where this will all end. Eventually Bob and Walter (to use two examples touted in this thread as definitely masculine) will become girls' names as well, and boys will be nameless? Or perhaps we will have an entirely ambigender pool of names--male Isabellas, female Philips.

OK, why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where this will all end. Eventually Bob and Walter (to use two examples touted in this thread as definitely masculine) will become girls' names as well, and boys will be nameless? Or perhaps we will have an entirely ambigender pool of names--male Isabellas, female Philips.

OK, why not?

I wasn't saying this was bad, I kind of like the idea! It does seem like the end game for the way we're going. Certainly better than boys getting dogs' names, funny as that would be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where this will all end. Eventually Bob and Walter (to use two examples touted in this thread as definitely masculine) will become girls' names as well, and boys will be nameless? Or perhaps we will have an entirely ambigender pool of names--male Isabellas, female Philips.

OK, why not?

Sure, why not, except no one would ever do this. Society wants boys to sound/be manly and strong and naming your boy Arabella doesn’t do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where this will all end. Eventually Bob and Walter (to use two examples touted in this thread as definitely masculine) will become girls' names as well, and boys will be nameless? Or perhaps we will have an entirely ambigender pool of names--male Isabellas, female Philips.

OK, why not?

If the goal is to produce sexless, raceless, ethnicity-less drones....then, yeah, do it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate giving little girls boys names. It's like saying there's something wrong with the girls names already there. People never name their boys girls names either, so it's pretty sexist.

+1

Boy name for girl = "I really wanted a boy!!"

Nah, I don’t think it means they wanted a boy, it means they want a girl with all the desirable stereotypical male traits and none of the undesirable ones. It’s a little pathetic and grasping.

[Anonymous]

Let's just name them all Mack and be done with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where this will all end. Eventually Bob and Walter (to use two examples touted in this thread as definitely masculine) will become girls' names as well, and boys will be nameless? Or perhaps we will have an entirely ambigender pool of names--male Isabellas, female Philips.

OK, why not?

If the goal is to produce sexless, raceless, ethnicity-less drones....then, yeah, do it!

There are cultures where you can't tell the gender from the name. And yet babies continue to be born, so they must not be sexless cultures.

Also, as far as I know, you can't tell a person's race from their name.