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What are your thoughts on these unisex names...

59 replies

PickettWhiteFences · 05/12/2020 04:57

Having a girl but quite keen on a unisex name...here is our list

  • Darcy
  • Indiana
  • Jessie
  • Aspen
  • Harlow
  • Kennedy
  • Parker
  • Sage
  • Quinn
  • Sasha

My favourite are probably Darcy, Kennedy and Indiana, DH loves Harlow and Jessie but also Darcy too.

Would love your opinions!

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eaglejulesk · 05/12/2020 05:36

I like Aspen, Darcy and Sasha. If you like the names OP then go with whichever you like best. I think the UK is rather conventional when it comes to naming children, none of those names are unusual where I live.

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 05/12/2020 05:33

What about Rowan? It's a unisex name with a similar feel to Sage but less hippy/arty because of it's popularity I think. (I like River on both sexes too, but that probably suffers from the same "hippyness" as Sage, unfortunately).

HeronLanyon · 05/12/2020 05:33

Indiana will be mispronounced all her life. Uncertainty about how to pronounce it will be a pita.
I have family in south bend so am painfully aware of U.K. inability to say this.

evenmoreforthemoor · 05/12/2020 05:32

Quinn sounds like quim and makes me want to vomit.

Several of those on your list are girls names not unisex.

BefuddledPerson · 05/12/2020 05:30

I have met a female Sasha.

BefuddledPerson · 05/12/2020 05:29

I like Sasha and Jessie best on the list.

I did think sage and onion stuffing when I saw Sage, sorry! I would get used to it though if you choose it, but presumably won't be the only person to think that?

Chailatte20 · 05/12/2020 05:28

Most of your choices are either American place names or surnames except for Harlow which is a town in Essex. Not keen on your choices but that's my personal preference.

I've only ever met a female Sasha and isn't Quinn a slang term for female genitals? I might be wrong but I thought I read that somewhere.

I like Jamie (m)/Jaimie (f) or Robin/Robyn if you want to go down unisex route.

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 05/12/2020 05:26

Are you from the UK? Surnames as given names and place names (apart from perhaps India and Georgia) aren't used very often for girls where I live (and they aren't to my taste, sorry)

But Sasha is pretty (and although it was originally a nn for Alexandra), I think it works okay as a standalone name. Jessie is cute but I feel it sounds nicer as a nn for Jessamine or Jessica personally. Sage is beautiful, but as it's unusual she may need a confident personality to pull it off - it's quite a hippy/arty name.

JustanotherTuesday · 05/12/2020 05:12

I really like Aspen and Sage. Have you considered Avery ? .