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'Masculine' girls names?

110 replies

QuestioningStuff · 12/10/2015 13:10

Posting for my pregnant best friend. She is expecting a girl and really likes 'masculine' girls names (like Alex or Sydney nn Sid) but we're struggling to come up with many.

What masculine girls names are there? Including nick names?

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Babylove2015 · 12/10/2015 20:36

If she grows up to be rough, a tomboy or butch lesbian, perhaps she will love a masculine name. I feel sorry for her if she turns out to be girly girly, feminine and elegant and would have adored a pretty feminine name.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 12/10/2015 20:11

Rowan

changename54 · 12/10/2015 20:11

Jordan
Morgan
Jamie
Andy (Andrea?)
Parker
Harper
Freddie (Frederica)
MacKenzie

Doesn't one celeb have a DD called Dylan? Or maybe it's Dylan-Jorje.

I once met a very glamorous woman called Sean. I was a bit perplexed.

jp0303 · 12/10/2015 20:09

Could Lenny short for Lennox? I love the name Lennox for a girl but dh wasn't keen.

BriocheBriocheBrioche · 12/10/2015 19:53

Morgane
Romane

LibrariesGaveUsP0wer · 12/10/2015 19:49

Heidi Klum has a Leni. I think that's Helene or Helena.

Yika · 12/10/2015 19:40

Lenny could be short for

Lenora
Leonora
Leonie
Helen

Yika · 12/10/2015 19:39

I love the name Leigh.

Others that might fit the bill are
Dale
Rae
Fallon

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QuestioningStuff · 12/10/2015 19:36

Some brilliant ideas here thankyou! takes note for any future DDs of mine

We really love Lenny but not sure it works as a name in itself. Could it be short for something? She does like the idea of a more 'feminine' name with a 'masculine' nn.

I love love Ronnie and Benn though.

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Wishful80smontage · 12/10/2015 19:34

Really like Sydney for a girl-not keen on Sidney for a boy at all

Georgia/George
Elliott
Francesca/Frankie
Rowan
My mum knew a girl years ago called Stevie which she loved.
Dylan
Harriet/Harry

FortyFacedFuckers · 12/10/2015 19:30

Billie
Bobbi
Jamie
Cameron
Alex
Charlie
Sam

Girlfriend36 · 12/10/2015 19:28

Tommy (Thomisina)

Andy

Romy

Freddie (Frederika)

Erika

Frankie

Leavingsosoon · 12/10/2015 19:19

Regan?

jp0303 · 12/10/2015 19:17

I love Bobby for a girl, from Roberta, like in The Railway Children.

Zhabr · 12/10/2015 19:15

Riley
Jamie

MariaV0nTrapp · 12/10/2015 17:21

I know a little girl called Robyn Dylan ? that's a first name and middle name too not Dylan as a surname.

I also have a cousin Robyn and dd's friends mum is a Robyn.. I think it's popular over this way ?

LibrariesGaveUsP0wer · 12/10/2015 17:16

I like Billie.

I am not fond of the trend for taking a very previously male name like James and giving it to a girl. It's all 'oh I'm so cool and unisex' but actually to me it reinforces the idea that girl is lesser. Because I'd bet everything I own that Blake Lively and Jessica Simpson and Mila whotsit and the like would never have named a boy Elizabeth or Sarah. It's ok for a girl to sound like a boy. But a boy like a girl, well that's just insulting.

Sorry, little side track there. I think the neutral thing works better with either very established unisex names - Alex - or the totally new - River- or where they are a nickname for a longer name.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 12/10/2015 17:10

Smugger not smugglerBlush damn you autocorrect.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 12/10/2015 17:08

Well mine are familiar with both Greek goddesses and teenage criminal geniuses. Wink. Personally I think it's a lovely name for a girl.

BreeVDKamp · 12/10/2015 17:07

Also I always suggest Ryan on threads like these, like Sandra Bullock in Gravity!

BreeVDKamp · 12/10/2015 17:06

Bertie (I'd go for Alberta but could be Roberta etc too)
Also love Joey!

LisbethSalandersLaptop · 12/10/2015 17:04

well my children have never read Artemis Fowl and know very well that Artemis was a Greek Goddess [smug face] Wink lol

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 12/10/2015 17:03

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TinklyLittleLaugh · 12/10/2015 17:02

Artemis Fowl, who will be more familiar to kids than a Greek goddess, is a male character though.

IssyStark · 12/10/2015 16:58

What boy's names does she like?

Tom? Dick? Harry? Alex? Joe? Nigel? Chris? Kit? Hal? George? etc etc

Decided on that first, then call her daughter the female version and use the common male nickname.

Tomasina / Ricardia / Henrietta / Alexandra / Josephine / Nigella / Christine, Katherine and various forms of / Henrietta (again) / Georgina or Georgette