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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious if this discussion will be taking place in 20 years about the current use of gender neutral names: Taylor, Cameron, Harper, etc[/quote]

The discussion will continue and I'd argue we are even more uncomfortable with "gender neutral" names now than we were 20 or 30 years ago.

The current trend is to give girls masculine or gender neutral names, and then for parents to stop giving those names to boys because they become associated with girls. In fact the three names you mention have fallen greatly out of favor for boys specifically because they have risen in popularity for girls.

Parents are now giving girls names like James, Teddy, and Noah (though it's usually Noa for a girl, but pronounced the same), and it will be interesting to see if the popularity of these names for girls diminishes their popularity for boys.

It's also increasingly popular to give girls feminine names with masculine or gender neutral nicknames: Maxine-Max, Theodora-Theo, Samantha-Sam.

It think people are more worked up about gender and naming than ever right now, and we are far, far from some utopia where no one cares about the gender of names. Most people care a lot, and in particular there is a discomfort with femininity in names, for both boys and girls, and almost a battle over masculine-sounding names because people become uncomfortable with the association of these names with girls/femininity.[/quote]

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