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Would you consider using a female name on your son?

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We all know it seems to be the trend to give our daughters male names. More and more names are becoming unisex.

Examples: Payton, Taylor, Skylar, Jaden, etc.

Well, would you ever consider doing the reverse?

Prime examples of this would be Ashley and Lindsay. Both of these names started off as boy's names before the girls took them over.

Can you think of any more boy names that the girls "stole"? And would you consider naming your son one of them?

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  1. Jaden is def a boys name...the others can go either way..oh, my bad Skylar is waaaaaay fem for me.

    Stacy, Tracy, Cary (Carrie)/Kerry (Keri)

    I forgot about Shannon!  I knew a guy with that name but he was HOT! :)


  2. I would only do that if I hated my son and wanted to torture him.  

    I knew a boy named Shirley when I was in high school.  That poor boy went thru pure h**l on earth.  He should have beat the c**p out of his parents.  

  3. I guess it truly depends on what the name is. What about Sean or Shawn? I don't know I would have to know what name you were thinking.

  4. nope

  5. This is a tough question!

    My absolute favorite boys' name in the whole entire world is Ashley.  Would I actually use it for a son?  Probably not (though I might consider it in the middle slot as a meager effort to reclaim it for the boys' side).  I wouldn't want him to be teased for having a girls' name, and I'm sure his little first grade classmates wouldn't care about the history of the name and that it was originally masculine.

    I tend to like softer-sounding names for boys, so I actually prefer names like Ashley, Aubrey, and Avery on boys instead of girls.  Girls have a wide variety of lovely names already available to them.  There's a lot less variety in acceptable boys' names, so I get really annoyed when parents "steal" a boys' name for their daughter.  After a name has been used enough on girls, it really isn't socially acceptable to use on boys anymore.

    Boys have stolen A LOT of girl's names.  Evelyn, Jocelyn, Marion, Loren, Joyce, Kelly, Ashley, Leslie, Sidney, Kim, Stacy, Brooke, Bailey, Madison, Taylor, and Alexis were all originally boys' names.  Girls seem to be in the process of stealing Riley, Cameron, Emerson, Avery, Hayden, Peyton, and Rory as well, though some predict that these will always remain unisex.

  6. No thanks i wouldn't name my son a girl name. :D

  7. no

  8. jamie, jayme, tracy, sterling, jean, michael, jesse.  I would use anyone of these names.

  9. Yeah, Try Sue.

    Signed Johnny Cash

  10. I would never give my child the opposite gender's name.  My name is Bobbie Jo, and i hated that my parents did that to me.  i could never do that to my kid.

  11. I think Payton, Taylor and Jayden are boy names. Skylar for me is a toss up. But I lean more towards boy.

    I know a couple boys that they are named Ashley, they absolutely hate their names. I know a guy named Lindsay too, he hates his too.

    I would never give my son a girl's name and vice versa I wouldn't give my girl a boy names.

  12. Jo (well short for Joanne)


  13. Ashley

    Shelby

    Morgan

    Parker  - this one i might consider

    Logan - also might consider

    Lake - also might consider

    Jamie

    Addison

    Hunter - would use this one

    Jaidon

    Avery - should be a boy name, would only use for a boy

    Jordan

    Elliot - would use for a boy

    Cameron - would use for a boy

    Parker - would use for a boy

    Logan - would use for a boy

    Rylie

    Alex

    i hate unisex names.  

  14. off hand i can only think of the name lesley and i definitely wouldn't call my son that, i don't even like it for a girl

  15. Janis, Carmel, Carley,  

  16. No!  It's a stupid trend.

  17. My neice goes to school with a  few guys with girls names.

    Loren

    Meshell

    Bailey

    Noel

    I feel bad for the guys =/

    I wish you the best!

    xoxo

    Meg


  18. No, not even the common unisex ones that you mentioned (you forgot Kelly). I even like Quinn only as a girls name.

    Actually, I wouldn't even give my daughter a gender neutral name. Picture a kid named Taylor Hayden. How confusing is that?

    ETA: Useless fact of the day (lol): I'm German, and over here the name of the child has to indicate its gender.

    I.e., if you named you daughter Taylor she would have to be given a clearly feminine middle name, like Taylor Annabel.

  19. Shannon and Kim come to mind, originally boys names, then later switched to girls.    I don't think I would do it personally, though my husband says he knows a man who is named Jone, and doesn't think anything of it probably because it isn't spelled the female way, Joan.  If you really like the name, it could be used as a middle name.

  20. No. It's a trend and it would hurt my son in way worse than I could even imagine. Getting make fun of, getting call a "f*g". Would you want your son to feel like that?  

  21. I like regular masculine names for boys myself. I don't like your examples for girls either. Save them from school teasings as best you can.

  22. I have heard of women named Michael (actresses Michael Learned and Michael Michelle) and Kevin (Kevyn Wynn - Steve Wynn's daughter) as well as others such as Drew Barrymore. And I knew a guy named Shannon as well as many people with unisex names such as Parker, Tyler, Taylor, etc...

    I don't have a problem with some of the unisex/crossover names, but don't like a lot of the new "made up" or borrowed names that some people are using, like Dakota, Madison, Nevaeh, now that everyone is using them. And some of the celebrity baby names? I mean, Apple or Suri - really?

    Names should be individual and personal, yes, but should also be something that a person can live with (see attached article http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.... Changing the spelling or altering the pronunciation of a traditional name only makes it harder for others when reading, spelling or pronouncing someone's name.

    But unless you want to teach your son a lesson a la Johnny Cash (as has already been posted), stay away from girly names - at least give him a fighting chance.

  23. I think boys have more problems with ambiguous names.  As a teacher i'd recommend simple easily spelled names.

  24. No.  There is enough so-called "gender confusion" in the world today without adding to it.

  25. unisex names like jayden skylar, and payton are really cute

  26. I wouldn't because in this generation, the poor child would get teased so much in school. That's just the way it is these days. And names like Taylor and Payton for girls are the new thing.

    So no, I wouldnt

  27. It really would depend on the name. I personally like Bailey for a boy. I would probably name a boy Payton/Peyton like Peyton manning. I love Taylor for a boy. I personally don't like Skylar at all for a boy. It is a girl name to me! Mackenzie and Madison used to be boy's names but the girls took that over.  

  28. no, why would you want to put your son through that?

    think about him getting teased and called f**get, i mean kids are cruel

  29. Some other names that used to be male names are Shelby, Sidney (Sydney), and Carole.  

    I like the feminizing of male names, but it's funny, I wouldn't give a boy a feminine name.  For some reason, to me, giving a girl a boy's name is cute, especially if you "feminize it" by using "y" instead of "i" or such.  I don't think it makes the child seem masculine or tougher.  However, if I gave a boy a girl's name I would feel I was setting him up for teasing about being wimpy and girly.  Weird, huh?

    You raise an interesting point!

  30. 3 1/2 yrs ago my husband and I picked out the name Blake for our son and then when he was 5 weeks old and we were going to places like the family resource center I had people telling me that he had a girl's name.  Never in my life would I think of Blake as a girl's name but I checked on the internet and sure enough it said it was a former boys name now a popular girls name.  I was not happy because I never wanted a name that could be confused for the opposite gender!  

  31. no, i wouldn't do that.  neither would i give my daughter a male name. thats just me!  i never knew ashley and lindsay were boy names first.  
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