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Elliot for a girl?

38 replies

CupcakesHay · 27/07/2010 21:11

Hi

I really like elliot for a girl, but loads of people have told me it's not a girls name - only for boys....

Opinions please!

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CupcakesHay · 27/07/2010 21:51

No - need to save Kirsty - as it's too much of a favourite to give as a middle name... in case we have another.

Although - this whole topic could be a waste of time, as i might have a boy! But food for thought, as i'm sitting here, bored and doodling in my mind!

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MrsJohnDeere · 27/07/2010 21:42

I prefer it for a girl and had only heard of it as a girls name before MN.

thisisyesterday · 27/07/2010 21:41

elliot kirsty?

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CupcakesHay · 27/07/2010 21:37

See I really like Elliot for a girl, DH not too keen, but kind of is going to let me have last pick - although I like Kirsty too... But family all really love Kirsty and aren't keen on Elliot...

Also, wasn't planning to have middle name, but if we go for Elliot, I'll pick a girl's name for middle name so people know when looking at forms, etc that it's a girl. If i go with Kirsty, then no middle name.

A friend recently had a baby girl and called it Brook Jamie - so hard to decipher the sex.

So next question - my surname's Rutherford... what works well as a middle name for Elliot?

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thisisyesterday · 27/07/2010 21:33

my friend wante dto call her dd Eliot but was talked out of it and really, really regrets it

there is a girl Eliot/Elliot in scrubs!

valiumSingleton · 27/07/2010 21:26

Besides, even George, which was the name that people would have taken their gender clue from, is now used by women.

valiumSingleton · 27/07/2010 21:25

It's not an argument! more like a full circle......

EvilTwins · 27/07/2010 21:19

IMO it's a boys' name.

The George Elliot argument is a bit - surely she chose that name specifically because everyone would think she was male.

valiumSingleton · 27/07/2010 21:17

The woman who wrote 'we need to talk about kevin' makes Lionel work for a girl. I think that is another one that suits a girl.

Eglu · 27/07/2010 21:16

I love it too. DH and I have discussed it as a possible name for a future DD.

valiumSingleton · 27/07/2010 21:15

I prefer it for a girl.

Also as George Elliot was really a woman, there's a certain eyebrow raising symmetry to having a daughter called Elliot.

it's quite feminine imo, so it just suits a girl better. But I'm not sure I'd choose it myself as it would bother me that everybody else regards it as a boy's name.

I like just Elle for short. NOt Ellie. And that is an obvious nn. One of the things that makes Elliot not work as a boys name is that the first syllable is Elle, and the first two syllables are Ellee!

DuelingFanjo · 27/07/2010 21:13

scrubs?

Haliborange · 27/07/2010 21:12

I like the "giving girls geeky boy's names" thing.
And if Elliot was good enough for George...

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