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Is this a girl's name now?

93 replies

cloudandmist · 04/10/2020 17:55

Blair

I'm really crushing on this name and both DH and I see it as a boy's name but the few people we've mentioned it to say they think of girls (Blair from Gossip Girl).

Is this a real issue or is it still very much considered a male name? I have never met any female or male Blairs so I can't even use that as reference.

Our other choices are Fraser, Ashley and Lachlan.

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SengaMac · 04/10/2020 18:22

Soz, I don't like the name Blair.
Lachlan is the best of the ones you like, imo.

SleepingStandingUp · 04/10/2020 18:22

@MikeUniformMike

There was a female Blair in my year at college. There were lots of Clares.

Why don't you change your own name to Blair, Fraser or Lachlan, and give your DD the first name you have now?

Eh??

She's having a boy.

Why would she give her son her name?

Is that what you did, pick a name, changes yours to it and then gave yours to your child regardless of sex??

daisypond · 04/10/2020 18:22

@AdelaideK

Is op having a girl? I thought she was having a boy by the way she's phrased it
I agree. She’s having a boy.
bethany39 · 04/10/2020 18:21

@NameChange30

Did you want a boy? Is that why all the names on your list are predominantly boys' names?
I interpreted the OP as she is having a boy and is worried that everyone will think "that's a girl's name!" if she calls him Blair?
AdelaideK · 04/10/2020 18:18

Is op having a girl? I thought she was having a boy by the way she's phrased it

mamaoffourdc · 04/10/2020 18:17

I know of 1 female blaire and 1 male Blair - go for it!

florascotia2 · 04/10/2020 18:17

It's a surname (former prime minister and others).

It's a place name of several very well-known Scottish villages (Blair Atholl, Blairgowrie etc).

It means big field or meadow in Scottish Gaelic, when it's mostly pronounced 'blaahrrr'. Blair (sounding like 'air') is an English-language version.

It's the name of a huge and nationally well-known farmed salmon processing plant www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/quick-fix-mowi-plans-extra-processing-plant-at-fort-william-by-mid-2021/

This is just my opinion, but unless your family or your husband's family had the surname Blair (there is a Scottish tradition of calling sons by their mother's family surname) I would not consider it for a boy or a girl.

But your choice, obviously.

PleasantVille · 04/10/2020 18:17

I'd think it was either a name for a Scottish boy or a surname.

Are you English?

MikeUniformMike · 04/10/2020 18:16

There was a female Blair in my year at college. There were lots of Clares.

Why don't you change your own name to Blair, Fraser or Lachlan, and give your DD the first name you have now?

SleepingStandingUp · 04/10/2020 18:14

@RemyHadley

I think it’s a girls name, I’d be surprised to meet a Blair and realise they were a boy. Same for Ashley.
But Ashley is a boys name. Ashleigh is the girl version and is much newer.

Blair I know from Home and Away so I vote boy.

Live Lachlan

SemperIdem · 04/10/2020 18:14

I just think of Tony.

It’s not quite as bad as Thatcher mind.

ThingDoer · 04/10/2020 18:12

2 boy Blair's in my school class in 1974 Glasgow. Who are these people who have not heard of it as a boy's name?

MisiSam · 04/10/2020 18:11

I see it as a girls name, again because I grew up watching alot of American TV shows and it always seemed to be girl characters named Blair. However I don't think it's "girly"

FamilyOfAliens · 04/10/2020 18:11

What does “really crushing on this name” mean? Does it mean you really like it?

RemyHadley · 04/10/2020 18:10

I think it’s a girls name, I’d be surprised to meet a Blair and realise they were a boy. Same for Ashley.

daisypond · 04/10/2020 18:09

Hm. It’s not really a name to me. Maybe more a boy name, but people do mention it on here for girls. I don’t know any. Your other names are much better.

NameChange30 · 04/10/2020 18:06

Did you want a boy?
Is that why all the names on your list are predominantly boys' names?

S111n20 · 04/10/2020 17:58

I think of it as a boys name but suppose it can be used for boy or girl.

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