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Feelings on now feminine names for boys?

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user1489577919 · 16/03/2017 18:04

Previous post... Selwyn didn't seem too popular.

Now I'm thinking about names that lean a bit more feminine these days:

Vivian

Hilary

Kelly

Thoughts? Also any other suggestions of feminine names for boys?

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ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 01:48

Totally irrelevant but my friend told me to listen to 'Shout Out to my ex' - wicked song. Smile

ShoutOutToMyEx · 17/03/2017 01:43

So did I! Never mind. Hopefully we've inspired the OP and there will be a third male Skye wandering the streets Grin

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 01:40

I never knew his surname but he was in a town beginning with S in the West country. Boo! I so wanted it to be the same guy/Skye!

pennypeony · 17/03/2017 01:39

Hayden is an Americanising of Haydn.
Lyn for a male is spelt Lin.

ShoutOutToMyEx · 17/03/2017 01:37

Jess I only knew him in primary school... he didn't have one then...

Town beginning with C?

Beansonapost · 17/03/2017 01:31

I have a -

Vivian
Kim
As male friends...

I like Vivian .

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 01:30

shout (whispers) He had a diner....

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 01:29

Laurie? (ex tried to convince me Lauren was a boys name. He had less than innocent reasons for trying to do so!) But I knew a lovely lad called Laurie.

ShoutOutToMyEx · 17/03/2017 01:29

Jess maybe it's the same one!

ispymincepie · 17/03/2017 01:23

2 of my boys have names that while traditionally are boys names are more recently thought of as girls names. Other kids don't bat an eye at all. Occasionally someone might ask if my youngest is a boy or a girl as he's only little still. Don't want to out myself by saying them on here but they're both Slavic/Russian type names.

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 01:22

shout I remember a male Skye.

ShoutOutToMyEx · 17/03/2017 01:18

I knew a male Skye.

GinSwigmore · 17/03/2017 01:14

Hayden
Harley

Buntysoven · 17/03/2017 01:06

Aubrey? Not very hippy tho! 😂

Nellooo · 17/03/2017 01:05

I know a nice guy called Jesse... Possible Jess alternative?

TinklyLittleLaugh · 17/03/2017 01:03

Ooh I went to school with a Jess too. He was a bit of a psycho. Slightly feminine boys' names were obviously very big in Wales in the 60s.

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 01:03

Rory?!

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user1489577919 · 17/03/2017 01:00

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess - I do love Gilmore Girls but I think my family would know where I got the name from Blush bit hard to own up to.

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ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 00:56

Call him Jess (watch Gilmore Girls - OMG, he's lush!)

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 00:55

(not the jingle bit, the 'jess' Grin)

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user1489577919 · 17/03/2017 00:55

Lemonnaise - because I think male, feminine names sound nice and are attractive to me. I didn't go out looking for them specifically, but a lot of the names I like fall into this category, so I thought I'd ask for some ideas.

If I wanted to be wacky I'd name the baby Honeysuckle.

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess - Stacey seems to be a popular one. I can't say it with my speech impediment though

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ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 00:54

Er, my username is actually a guy's name in the USA. They seem to have a more relaxed attitude to 'gender-specific' names. It's not 'trendy' - it's been done for years.

Lemonnaise · 17/03/2017 00:50

Can you tell me why you want a feminine name for your boy? Is it just to be different and 'wacky'.?

ItShouldHaveBeenJingleJess · 17/03/2017 00:49

I was at sixth form in the nineties with a super hot guy called Stacey. He did, however, have a surname than rendered him fairly masculine (without outing him!) No one batted an eyelid (lashes, maybe!)

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user1489577919 · 17/03/2017 00:46

Lemonnaise - I don't even know how to reply to this, it's so dramatic. These are historically boys names, that's not a Trend Alert

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