Rory as a boy's name?
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Anonymous
Disagree. Jayden, Cayden and all other made up names are cringe. This is a legit name with Irish roots. Plus, DCUM for girls is always in favor of more ethnic names for girls. |
Anonymous
| I am Irish so I think of it as a male name first. I love it because it’s not overly traditional (what I call “dead presidents names”) but it’s also not trendy name. Just in between - very few boy names are neutral like that! |
Anonymous
| I’m confused why everyone thinks Rory is impossible to pronounce. Our dogs name is Rory (after Gilmore Girls!) and our toddler has been able to pronounce it perfectly fine since she started talking. |
Anonymous
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We have a DD Rosemary that goes by Rory and there also a boy Rory in her preschool class a few years ago.
I do know a grown male Rory too. |
Anonymous
| Rory is a boy's name. |
Anonymous
| Sorry I think Rory Gilmore. |
Anonymous
Well that’s nice for your kid—my kid couldn’t say her Rs until she was 7 so Rory would be Wohy and basically unintelligible. Not that that’s a good reason not to use the name, but it’s not the easiest to pronounce. |
Anonymous
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Rory is an Irish boy's name. It wasn't used for females until the late 1960s. When Robert F Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, his wife Ethel was pregnant. Robert and Ethel had agreed on the name of the child if it were male: Rory. They hadn't yet agreed on the name of the child if it was a girl. When Ethel gave birth to a daughter after her husband's death, she decided to name her Rory, despite the fact it was a girl.
Suddenly, Rory became a popular girl's name in the US. Before 1968, nobody would have named a girl Rory. |
Anonymous
| Bad in both genders |
Anonymous
| To me it's definitely a boy's name. I like it fine. I think of it as very Irish/Scottish, like Patrick or Angus |