Favorite boy name for a girl?

[Anonymous]

A lot of the names listed are surnames (Parker, Cooper, etc). Why do you think surnames are only boys names?

Unisex names are clearly the future. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the names listed are surnames (Parker, Cooper, etc). Why do you think surnames are only boys names?

Unisex names are clearly the future. Get over it.

I disagree. Gender is a construct, but not one were eliminating anytime soon. Also, even if you have everyone unisex names, people would immediately create gendered nicknames. It’s just extremely human to categorize people.

I do think it’s useful to consider the range of people your kid could grow up to be. We gave our daughter a feminine name, but considered how it could be shortened for both ver girly and more unisex or even masculine names. And we use both nicknames with her (though she currently prefers the girly one). She was born a girl and that means something (less than some people think, but still something) and our goal with her name was to help give her the start of an identity without confining her in it.

I think strictly unisex names would be as confine for many as very masculine or feminine names. Not everyone wants to be unisex, and expressing your gender via your name can be useful and powerful.

[Anonymous]

Campbell
Kyle
Reese
Reagan
Avery
Lee
Drew
Ryan
Blake

[Anonymous]

I always liked what I thought of as neutral names for girls-
Casey
Riley
Morgan
Reese
Laine

Less neutral-
Ryan
Spencer
Wesley

[Anonymous]

Barf to every single one of these boy names

[Anonymous]

Robin
Kim
Kai

[Anonymous]

quinn

[Anonymous]

Shane/Shaine

[Anonymous]

Shawn

[Anonymous]

Carol
Lynn
Darcy
Whitney
Stacy
Ashley
Courtney
Dana
Leslie
Kelsey

[Anonymous]

I love unisex names and surnames for first names. I have one and so does my mother, so the tradition continues!

You can’t tell by our names alone if we are females or males. I’ll do the same for my baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the names listed are surnames (Parker, Cooper, etc). Why do you think surnames are only boys names?

Unisex names are clearly the future. Get over it.

I disagree. Gender is a construct, but not one were eliminating anytime soon. Also, even if you have everyone unisex names, people would immediately create gendered nicknames. It’s just extremely human to categorize people.

I do think it’s useful to consider the range of people your kid could grow up to be. We gave our daughter a feminine name, but considered how it could be shortened for both ver girly and more unisex or even masculine names. And we use both nicknames with her (though she currently prefers the girly one). She was born a girl and that means something (less than some people think, but still something) and our goal with her name was to help give her the start of an identity without confining her in it.

I think strictly unisex names would be as confine for many as very masculine or feminine names. Not everyone wants to be unisex, and expressing your gender via your name can be useful and powerful.

Total crap response. The names are unisex, fool, not the people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, why would you give your sweet little girl a boys' name? Just asking.

This. How sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, this is an awful trend that needs to die a quick death.

Don’t embarrass yourself, your child, and other boys with same name.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a fan of this personally, and from that perspective I think Casey is a great choice.