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The James for girls hype

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candlelighttt · 22/08/2020 21:04

I see more and more people using James as a middle name for girls. I first heard this name when it was used by celebrities to name their daughter a few years ago. Now I see it come up on multiple threads and forums.

What do you think of it? I am still too new to this trend so haven't really made up my mind about how I feel about it.

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june2007 · 25/08/2020 23:56

Call your child what you like, but don,t expect others to like it. James is very traditionally boys and although it has been used for a girl every one in uk would assume boy, thats enough to put me off.

Bowerbird5 · 25/08/2020 23:49

I have taught lots of Children called Jamie. Two of them were girls. I don’t like James as a girls name though.

Other names to add to your list OP.
Jayden, Jaydyn, Jaydan
Harley
Rowan
Ellis
Charlie ( no not short for Charles, Charleen or Charlotte)
Ebony

That is all I can remember that I have come into contact with over the years.

Lebkuchenlove · 25/08/2020 22:22

I know a female Jamie

Could be short for Jamesina?

zigaziga · 25/08/2020 19:38

Evelyn and Hillary are other boys / unisex names now just girls names...

zigaziga · 25/08/2020 19:37

I really hope it doesn’t become a girls name. There are already loads more girls names and James is such a lovely, classic boys name.

BikeTyson · 25/08/2020 17:55

It pisses me off because it's another example of "male as the best" - higher status, more interesting, better. Boys names are used for girls and it's oh so cool but girls names are never used for boys. No-one is starting a thread about making their boy Emma or Jayne.

Word.

sunyla · 25/08/2020 17:54

I think it's nice as a middle name for girls but not so much as a first name. I know a lady named Jaymes who is in her 30's.

daisypond · 25/08/2020 15:26

It’s very naff, very un-cool. OK as a middle name, as it might be a family surname perhaps. Jane is a nice name for an alternative. And I like those Scottish versions of names like Jamesina too.

Enough4me · 25/08/2020 15:05

People will assume James is a boy as much as Daisy or Poppy are assumed to be girls' names?

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 25/08/2020 14:59

Great, so girls are soft and weak, and boys are strong and hard? Ffs.

Lavenderblues · 25/08/2020 13:52

Maybe because James sounds quite soft? Not very 'strong' or masculine?

anxiousanna75 · 25/08/2020 13:48

I could never get used to calling a girl James.
Maybe because it's my brother's name and I know so many males called James. It would be like being introduced to a boy called Kate.

ilikebooksandplants · 25/08/2020 12:41

I weirdly love it for a girl. Isn’t it in a friends episode where Rachel puts it on the table as ‘James...but only if it’s a girl’ and Ross vetoes it? That’s the only time I’ve ever heard it and I really like it.

Jj2431 · 24/08/2020 03:04

James is a boys name, always has been and always will be.

Onestepup · 23/08/2020 23:01

James is the most popular default middle name for boys. I don't see it as a girls name at all.

FizzyGreenWater · 23/08/2020 22:53

There is something really naff about James for a girl. Very 80s somehow.

VenusClapTrap · 23/08/2020 09:14

I’m still annoyed that this has happened to Aubrey.

MikeUniformMike · 23/08/2020 09:09

I think of it the same as using Sarah as a first name for a boy.

August20 · 23/08/2020 01:07

To be honest if I saw it as a middle name I would assume it was a family surname being used as a middle name.

Stella8686 · 23/08/2020 00:18

Lindsay and Lesley are also names I would associate as female

Bouncingbelle · 23/08/2020 00:04

I actually think when you say it out loud, it can sound quite nice for a girl.

It’s just too well established as a boys name for me to ever consider actually using it as a girls name tho.

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candlelighttt · 22/08/2020 23:37

Fully agree with some PP. Some boys names I like have completely become girls names and absolutely unusable. I do hope that doesn't happen to James as it's a great name for a boy.

Ashley (still acceptable in the UK for a boy I think)
Shannon
Cassidy
Dana

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SerenityNowwwww · 22/08/2020 23:37

Boys name. But then I had a (Woman) friend whose middle name was Stephen.

merryhouse · 22/08/2020 23:36

Beverley, Evelyn, Shirley, Alexis... and now James.

BrandyandBabycham · 22/08/2020 23:31

I like Jamie for a girl

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