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Original poster

James - for a girl

207 replies

GlitterPinkRubberDucky · 28/08/2012 12:21

Is this too "out there"? Have liked it since I heard of that actress James King.

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scottishmummy · 29/08/2012 21:55

Tiffany lovely boys name.why be encumbered by tradition?
give the wee man a man he'll remember
give the teacher giggles

pinkyp · 29/08/2012 21:41

James? Nooo but if u really want it, then go for it. What would you call a boy if u had one? Tiffany? Perhaps wait until youve lost your pregancy brain Wink

StormGlass · 29/08/2012 21:37

I forgot to mention it before, but when I meet girls / women with masculine names, or uncommon names obviously derived from a boys name (such as James, Nigella, or things like Charlie/Stevie as a full name, not a nickname), I do wonder if their parents had had their heart set on a boy. And then just used the boys name because they hadn't thought of a girls name.

NigellasGuest · 29/08/2012 21:10

or Clivella

NigellasGuest · 29/08/2012 21:10

you could at least have given her the official name Clivindra and used Clive as a NN ffs
what's the world coming to?

InTheNameofTheWeeMan · 29/08/2012 21:02

I met a woman called Stewart once. First name, and last name, she was called Stewart Stewart!

scottishmummy · 29/08/2012 21:01

so beautiful
would bring tear to glass eye
the girly wee English rose Clive

IawnCont · 29/08/2012 20:57

I can imagine it now: Introducing her, all tiny and pink-cheeked, to the world. I shall have an emotional tear in my eye as I say, "This is my daughter... My beautiful little Clive Raymond..."

NigellasGuest · 29/08/2012 20:24
Grin
scottishmummy · 29/08/2012 20:18

beautiful names.wee Clive in her party dress
ahhh bless

IawnCont · 29/08/2012 20:15

Jasmine is a nice, and uncommon, name.

If I have another son I'll call him Mariella, if I ever have a daughter she will be Nigel. Or Clive.

chipmonkey · 29/08/2012 20:08

Storm, dsis and I used to to that to our brother as well. My mother thought it would turn him gay.Hmm We thought it brought out his feminine side!Grin

StormGlass · 29/08/2012 20:00

DSis & I used to dress up our little DBro in our old dresses and call him Danielle to pretend he was our little sister. All great fun until he got big enough to be aware of the differences between boys and girls.

And then he started throwing tantrums if we even tried to call him Danielle, never mind put a dress on him. He'd have been mortified if our parents had actually given him a girls name like Danielle

BrianAndHisBalls · 29/08/2012 19:58

I'm Brian and I'm a girl. Never done me no harm.

chipmonkey · 29/08/2012 19:56

Soupy, I wasn't really thinking it was feminist, but more thinking that it wasn't anti-feminist, IYKWIM!

Purely hypothetical around here anyway! Ds1 won't even have a pink freezer pack in his lunch bag to keep his lunch cool, never mind tolerate having a girl's name!

HiHowAreYou · 29/08/2012 19:52

Hmm. What about Jane?

Jemma1111 · 29/08/2012 19:27

There's hundreds of girls names you could choose from , so I can't understand how you could even contemplate giving your dd a boys name !
If you call her James then you're being cruel in my opinion .

She would have to live her life with people either getting confused or taking the piss out of her . Don't do it .

scottishmummy · 29/08/2012 19:23

I'm still waiting to see if anyone chose tallulah for boy
to push it
aye

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 29/08/2012 19:21

we automatically think "I'd love to be called Kenneth!" or whatever

Grin Laughing my head off at that for some reason!

I think if the OP is determined to call her girl James then she will do so. Sadly the poor kid will spend the rest of her life dealing with it, but hey, it's every parent's right to call their poor offspring whatever they please, right?

Ephiny · 29/08/2012 19:20

I wouldn't, it doesn't work as a girl's name for me. I would definitely not have liked to have such a masculine-associated name, especially as a young girl/teenager. I would have hated it, actually.

It is OK for a boy, but a bit ordinary. I wouldn't say it was a beautiful name, though that's obviously a matter of opinion.

Jamesina is horrible IMO.

scottishmummy · 29/08/2012 19:19

no because James is a boy name
and I imagine shed no like it
understandably

NigellasGuest · 29/08/2012 19:16

*short, obvs

NigellasGuest · 29/08/2012 19:16

did you call her James for shourt though? Wink

scottishmummy · 29/08/2012 19:11

I worked with a jamesina
solid gold wee wifie

exoticfruits · 29/08/2012 19:04

You could just settle for Jemima and save a lot of tedious discussion.

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