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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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TheVanguardSix · 13/01/2020 09:19

As in a male version of Siouxsie Sioux?

You'd be mad as a bucket of frogs to call your son Sioux.
Great band though.

cherryblossomgin · 13/01/2020 09:17

It doesn't matter how you spell it. Everyone will think he is called Sue and wonder why you gave him a girls name.

BobbyBlueCat · 13/01/2020 09:13

OP, do grow the fuck up.

Badabingbadabum · 13/01/2020 09:03

Are you linked to the Sioux? Do you want your son to have a name that sounds like Sue? The Jonny Cash song has the line "my name is Sue. How do you do. Now your gonna die!"? All the explaining your son will need to do when he tells anyone his name? Except he will probably refer to himself as Mike from the age of about 4.

Crafting1Queen · 13/01/2020 06:11

Name change fail?

OP - Keythorpe2017 Mon 13-Jan-20 03:10:11
Isn't that what people would have said about boys names that are now used for girls though years ago...
Cameron, Andy, Dylan, Bobby, Tyler, Stevie etc...
I value your options but just playing with the gender rules and wondering where the line is drawn?
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Zfw798 Mon 13-Jan-20 03:51:24
Right, got my answer. Thanks everyone! 😁

Either way, don't name your son Sioux.

othervoicesotherrooms · 13/01/2020 06:02

Johnny Cash !! This has to be a joke OP!! Grin

BoomZahramay · 13/01/2020 06:02

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

I would say the line is drawn at turning your own kids into social experiments. If you want to play with gender rules, change your own name.

puds11 · 13/01/2020 05:47

There did used to be a mnetter on here called Stevie. From what I remember it wasn’t Stephanie, just Stevie and she didn’t like it.

mathanxiety · 13/01/2020 05:45

Hear hear, @Ritascornershop.

AutumnCrow · 13/01/2020 05:40

No, you crack on, love.

Charlieiscool · 13/01/2020 05:34

It would be a cruel and ridiculous thing to do. Utterly selfish on your part and the child would suffer incessantly.

Ritascornershop · 13/01/2020 04:41

Living in Canada (lives for a time in the U.K.), find it seriously weird to use an Indigenous name when you (presumably) have no connection to that Indigenous people. And while I’m at it, could people stop naming their kids Cohen? Use of names that are special to the people who originated the name (by people from outside that group) feels very wrong to some of us. Cohens are the priestly class of Jews, Sioux are a specific group of First Nation people.

mathanxiety · 13/01/2020 04:38

HannaYeah, lots of girl Dylans and Camerons where I am, and at least one Tyler.

Also girls named Campbell, Logan, Barrett. Not women yet, but give them time. The era or normal names for children has passed it seems.

bananahood · 13/01/2020 04:17

It is lovely but there's the First Nations thing to consider. Why not keep it on the back burner for a future DD? Also the names you've listed are traditionally boys' names, now (sometimes) used as girls' (although I've never met or heard of a girl with any of those names), it's far less common for boys to be given what are traditionally girls' names. Obviously lots can be read into that but it is what it is and a boy who is essentially named Sue is going to be given a hard time. It's not enough to say he would become tough, that's a big burden you're knowingly giving him.

misspiggy19 · 13/01/2020 04:07

Female Stevie is short for Stephanie.

Anyway a boy named Sue? This has to be a wind up. Why would you do that to your child?

HannaYeah · 13/01/2020 04:01

@Spam88

I’m in the US and have not met any women with those names. Only female Stevie I’ve heard of was Stevie Nicks. Crown Smile

Prevegen4U · 13/01/2020 03:58
Zfw798 · 13/01/2020 03:51

Right, got my answer. Thanks everyone! 😁

Spam88 · 13/01/2020 03:49

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

Are you in the US OP? I've never encountered a girl called any of those things in the U.K. (other than a female lab called stevie).

I don't think it's appropriate to use the name of a tribe unless you have links.

Walnutwhipster · 13/01/2020 03:43

You do know the first child to find a Susan meme will make your child's life a misery. No, just no. This has to be a piss take.

Lowbrow · 13/01/2020 03:40

So mean to give your child a name that will bring years of humiliation just because your husband is a music fan.

nachthexe · 13/01/2020 03:37

It’s not cool and exotic to name a kid from Essex (or wherever) Sioux. It’s inappropriate and you pretty much bar him from travel to the US as an adult without getting him really weird looks/ beaten up in bars/ laughed at.
But really, you do you hun. (Don’t).

Oakeyy · 13/01/2020 03:36

Imagine him hearing the Johnny Cash song... Sorry OP, Sue isn't a great name - for either gender.

HannaYeah · 13/01/2020 03:26

You can if you want to be a complete asshole.

vivaforever · 13/01/2020 03:21

In North America the name will be most strongly associated will be with the Indigenous group, not the artist. There are a lot of debates around Native American cultural appropriation which this name could bring up