Anyone else dislike traditionally boys' names being used for girls?

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Does anyone else hate the trend of giving girls traditionally boy names (Elliott, Ezra, James, Scottie, Tommy, etc.)? Currently pregnant and had a family member suggest one of these types of names for our daughter and almost rolled my eyes when she said it. I don't understand why it's so popular at the moment and why so many parents seemingly want their daughters to be seen as masculine. Maybe it bothers me because you never see it go the other way round. You never see feminine names become unisex. It does seem to be more popular in America (thankfully), but I can see it increasing in popularity here.

I was actually referring to the pronunciation, not the strict spelling of this particular instance. The point being that a British family which wished to follow the French tradition might choose a different spelling as there is more than one version in English.

For avoidance of further doubt: the suggestion in the books is that the twins were named for male ancestors called Nicholas and Lawrence because their family had expected that boys might be born. Nicola is clearly a feminised version; Lawrence is not, so MIGHT (were these real people and not a book...) be given unchanged from this particular UK male version but informed by knowledge of the French girl's name Laurence...again, no suggestion that there was any French ancestry involved either.

Oh God - now you are going to point out the differences in pronuniciation between the English and French...😅

My great aunt, has she lived would be 120 now was a Tommy (only found out at her funeral it was short for thomasina)

My Romanian plumber is called Marian. When he settled in Spain he quickly found out that it is a girls name here. So he is Mariano in Spain and Marian in Romania. No guy would be saddled with a girl´s name and bear it or be allowed to get away with it.

Surely she was? The terrifying grandmother who was the reason Mrs Marlow rode sidesaddle so she wouldn’t have how she looked from behind constantly criticised? And that Patrick escorted to Mass? She even has a name-but I can’t remember it….

Yes! It was bad enough to grow up with the feminised version of a boys' name, as it often got mispronounced, and I was sometimes assumed to be male if someone knew my name before meeting me.

One of my (very few) favourite boys' names is becoming more popular for girls, so any potential DS may face assumptions that he is a girl, despite it usually being associated with a great uncle with gout or something!

I know a Laurence and she says the name as it is said where she comes from, just like the Nicola I know says his name the way he says it.

differences in pronuniciation ha ha.

It is a traditional Man's name

I disagree, I love it. I names like Charlie, Jamie, Dylan etc are pretty cool on a girl!

I knew a man called Kim, he wasn’t great in bed.

I know a Charlie, Jamie, Leigh, Reece, Sam, Jordan in both sexes - they work. But if you tried to name a girl Adam if probably scrunch my nose up

Now you mention the granny I am not sure.. :) Definitely no French parent, though, and Lawrie did make it clear somewhere that she had been given a man's name "because they'd got it all saved up" but she'd turned out the wrong sex (again!) :)

I think it’s quite sexist.
I don’t think the parents calling their daughter James would ever consider calling their son Mary, or any other name traditionally used for girls.
Besides which, James is so overused.
It is so common both as a first and middle name I find it boring.
I don’t know any woman who was given a male name that likes it. I know Toni’s and Terris and Lesley’s and they all dislike their name.

I love James as a name but definitely mans name, with female equivalent being Jamina.

Toni on a woman I'd assume was actually Antoniette
Terris would probably be a Teresa

Lesley is the only one I'd think of as a truely unisex name

That’s not the same thing at all, Amelie is an actual name in France, Madison is made up.

I can’t imagine looking down at my newborn baby girl and naming her “Bennett” or “Wyatt” - awful!

There are so many beautiful girls names, yet people choose hard sounding male names for their girls. And I know of someone who called their lovely female child Tesla.

No they are not short for anything.
The full name is Toni, Terri etc and they all hate it.
All of them chose traditional, very feminine names for their daughters.

Jamesina is the traditional feminine version of James in Scotland.

Lesley is a woman's name, the male equivalent is Leslie after the castle in Aberdeenshire, if people use them the wrong way round that just shows the problems with cultural appropriation, don't use names from another culture if you are going to mix up the male and female versions.

Jacqueline is also a female version of James, through the French Jacques.

I'm no expert on names but I'd have thought Jacques was closer to John than James.

Whats french for John?

Jean is John in Franch. And as in English there are various other regional variations such as Ianick.

"Jacques" is Jacob, which (via Jacobus) also became James in English. I imagine people confuse it with John because of the name "Jack".

The John / Jack / Jacqueline is definitely where my head was going.

As I say I'm no expert in names.
I'm now even more curious, as both those names are biblical, what those names become in every Christian country, and what was there origins, because obviously the Bible wasn't written in English or French,.

I'm thinking too deeply about this stuff

You can pick whatever name you want . That’s what’s so lovely . Don’t listen to any family.

F Scott Fitzgerald’s daughter was Scottie