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Can I call my baby boy Sioux?

89 replies

Keythorpe2017 · 13/01/2020 02:50

My husband is a big music fan and with all of these gender neutral names flying about I was wondering if it would be cruel to call our baby boy Sioux?

To me the name Sioux is strong and mascaline - worriors. But I'd like to get your opinions please.

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Equanimitas · 13/01/2020 14:10

You'd spend his childhood saying "He's called Sue spelt S-I-O-U-X", which would get incredibly tedious - as would all the questions about whether you actually have any Sioux connections. So would he, for a time, until he worked out that he doesn't have to subject himself to this and chooses a different name..

banannabreadforme · 13/01/2020 14:06

How about as a middle name? I think that for a boy the name might make his school life a bit unpleasant.

Whynosnowyet · 13/01/2020 14:05

I know a rock fan with a ds called Serge...
Sorry but please don't call your dc Sue.

JayeAshe · 13/01/2020 14:01

@HannaYeah

Not even Stevie Smith?? Shock Grin

allpoetry.com/Stevie-Smith

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 13/01/2020 13:56

If you want to "play with gender rules" then don't use your child to express that. Why doesn't your husband change his name to this if he feels so strongly?

Clangus00 · 13/01/2020 13:50

Nooooo

Bluntness100 · 13/01/2020 13:46

One way to find out where the line is drawn, is for your husband to change his name to Sioux/Sue for a year

Yes, and you can change yours to graham.

Then decide.

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unlimiteddilutingjuice · 13/01/2020 12:41

Its a good choice if you know you won't be there to help him along.
You could give him that name and say goodbye. He'll have to get tough or die and it will be that name that helped to make him strong.
Be warned, he may make a pledge to the moon and stars to search for you in all the "honkytonks and bars" eventually leading to a confrontation over your choice of name.
All going well, however, he will eventually thank you for the gravel in his guts and the spit in his eye and you will be reconciled.
Crack on.

eminencegrise · 13/01/2020 12:39

Dear god, cultural appropriation to the max! As for naming him 'Sue', well, why not, every other person on here is naming their daughters Teddy, Rory, James, etc.

BarkandCheese · 13/01/2020 12:39

Lindsey, Shirley, Hillary, all originally boys names which morphed into girls names over the years, why not reclaim one of them? Lindsey even has a rock and roll connection with Lindsey Buckingham.

Worried234 · 13/01/2020 12:37

Do not do this. He will be bullied at school, for sure.

Figgygal · 13/01/2020 12:34

No you can’t do that honestly I would be thinking constantly that poor kid

percheron67 · 13/01/2020 12:31

Your child - your choice. Have you considered Arapahoe, Cree or Apache?

TartanMarbled · 13/01/2020 12:30

No.

palomapear · 13/01/2020 12:26

How about Soup instead?

MAndSReadyMealForOne · 13/01/2020 12:26

Cameron, Andy, Dylan, Bobby, Tyler, Stevie etc...

All of those names are boys names.

Whathappenedtothelego · 13/01/2020 12:25

I think the sound of it is fine, and written down would assume it was a boy's name.

But I find it pretty inappropriate if you don't have any cultural link to the name.

SuperMeerkat · 13/01/2020 12:25

Like Sue 😂😂 He’ll get called Susan all through school/life!! Don’t be mean @Keythorpe2017

user1480880826 · 13/01/2020 12:19

Absolutely not. You will, rightly, be accused of cultural appropriation. Sioux is the name of a Native American tribe.

Also, calling a boy Sue (however you want to spell it) is extremely cruel. He will be badly bullied and will not forgive you for it.

teethgrindwind · 13/01/2020 12:11

I've had a better idea what about

Saul

WorraLiberty · 13/01/2020 10:59

I value your options but just playing with the gender rules and wondering where the line is drawn?

One way to find out where the line is drawn, is for your husband to change his name to Sioux/Sue for a year.

You'll understand exactly where it's drawn then.

Lweji · 13/01/2020 10:56

You can, but if you love him why would you?

He'd be forever spelling his name to people. Just give a normal name that people will know how to spell.

Bluntness100 · 13/01/2020 10:53

I'm also not sure this is serious, do you listen to too much country and western and think a boy called sue is a fine idea?

teethgrindwind · 13/01/2020 09:27

I've met a female Stevie, but none of the others they are boys names, but I'd assume it was boy unless told. Of course there is Cameron Diaz but all Cameron's I know are boys.

Sue doesn't work for me What about Sonny or Xavier or Lenny? I don't know something different, but not a girls name with an impossible spelling.

sel2223 · 13/01/2020 09:22

with all of these gender neutral names flying about

I'm all for unusual names but when I think of gender neutral, I think of names that can be either male or female.
'Sue' (regardless of spelling) is just a uninspiring female name....and not a particularly nice one at that. Sorry OP.

What about Stevie?