Leo for a girl?

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catalinablue · 20/05/2018 17:03

What do you think of using Leo for a girl?

Don't particularly like any 'longer' feminine versions (Leona, Leonie, Leonora, etc) but love Leo.

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EvilTwins · 20/05/2018 17:14

I teach a girl who has a boy's name (think Gabriel, not Gabrielle, but not that) and whilst everyone she sees every day is fine with it now, she has to explain every time she meets someone new that it is Gabriel, and yet, it's pronounced that way, and that it's not Gabrielle, and no, she's not Gabby.

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 20/05/2018 17:10

Agree with others at least give her the choice. Imagine if your parents had called you Leo and you spent everyday of your life with people naturally assuming you would be a boy or a man. That's every time a new teacher comes into school, every time she applies for a job, every time she fills in any sort of paperwork just think how tedious it would be. Call her Leo by all means but give her a longer name such as Leonora so she has a choice not to always be correcting people.

Starlight2345 · 20/05/2018 17:09

Nope lovely boys name

Mannix · 20/05/2018 17:09

I know a female Leo (adult). I've always assumed it was short for something but maybe not!

flumpybear · 20/05/2018 17:09

Cleo! Brilliant!!

flumpybear · 20/05/2018 17:08

Sorry but it's a boys name, like Thomas, doesn't work for a girl, but Leona leone lia Lelia Leila are fine, just shorten it!

pepperpop · 20/05/2018 17:08

Not keen, how about Cleo?

gravytrains · 20/05/2018 17:07

Nope!

theplanetjanet · 20/05/2018 17:06

Totally your call, I mean you could call her Geoff or Rodney if you felt like it! Leo is a boys name though & that is what pretty much everyone she ever meets will think. If you give her the longer version but call her Leo as a nickname then at least she has choices when she’s older.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 20/05/2018 17:06

No sorry. It's a boys name and should stay that way. Do you not like Lia. That's very pretty and similar to Leo

RexManning · 20/05/2018 17:06

Please don't. It's a lovely boys' name. It's also fairly popular (#13) and rising steadily so there is a very good chance that at some point in her schooling she will end up in classes with one or more male Leos.

Lea? Lia?

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