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Favourite soft boi names

135 replies

HolyMusicalBman · 08/02/2021 12:16

Love names like Theo, Leo, Tristan, Dylan, Valentine and Ewan. The proper soft sounding masc names. What are your favourite soft masc names.

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ShesMadeATwatOfMePam · 08/02/2021 13:12

What's going on here!?

Plussizejumpsuit · 08/02/2021 13:12

OP are you using soft boo in the same way I would? Like the insta account beam me up soft boi?
www.vice.com/en/article/ywagbg/guide-a-z-what-is-softboi-softboy

Cos no idea why you would want to call your kid this type of boy name?! Grin

TheVolturi · 08/02/2021 13:12

Help I think I fell into netmums

Fembot123 · 08/02/2021 13:10

You what 😂

gottakeeponmovin · 08/02/2021 13:09

I literally have no clue what this is about

PursuingProxemicExactitude · 08/02/2021 13:07

Fuck. I am too old to live.

But - having dutifully read the Guardian article - why would anyone want their child to be identified with these manipulative wastrels?

Chunkymenrock · 08/02/2021 13:07

If you mean boy, and more gentle sounding names, how about Dylan, Lyndon, Ashley? The word boi is fucking ridiculous BTW.

Housewife2010 · 08/02/2021 13:00

Boris?

bloodywhitecat · 08/02/2021 12:58

Sue?

TheQueef · 08/02/2021 12:53

Maude.

RichAssWhoopin · 08/02/2021 12:53

Can I recommend Soft-beau Icecream

Bubblebu · 08/02/2021 12:52

do you think Owen, Morgan and Evan are soft sounding as boys names?

i am not sure what the defining factor is here!!

TryingNotToPanicOverCovid · 08/02/2021 12:50

Not sure from the article it would be soemthing to aspire to...

DaphneBridgerton · 08/02/2021 12:50

I've always thought names like Isaac, Avery, Miles, Theodore and Noah were quite "soft" sounding i.e. not very manly/masculine

Weirdly, the name Gabriel has the opposite effect on me (images of a ripped, shirtless angel come to mind?!)

RichAssWhoopin · 08/02/2021 12:49

I...... just...why

TalkingIntoTheEther · 08/02/2021 12:46

According to the guardian article.....

“There’s a softboi spectrum. At one end, it’s just anyone who has any unique or alternative interests that make them feel superior to other people. At the other end is quite hardcore emotionally manipulative men who use these interests to really mess about with women or men”

CorianderBee · 08/02/2021 12:45

Soft boi means a feminine man name. Ffs it's not hard to figure out.

KaptainKaveman · 08/02/2021 12:36

According to Google it can mean : a butch lesbian, an adjective that roughly means 'stupid' , or a weird spelling of the common noun 'boy'.

You certainly do learn something new every day.

MadameButterface · 08/02/2021 12:34

Laurence/Laurie, Gabriel, Sebastian, Oisin, Jasper, Otis, that type of thing? I love soft boi names 😁

SoupDragon · 08/02/2021 12:33

It's not that hard to work out what the OP means even though the words are daft

PurpleRainDancer · 08/02/2021 12:33

‘Soft Boi’? ‘Soft Masc’? Go on give us a clue OP.

MichelleScarn · 08/02/2021 12:31

Showing my age because l now have skater boi by Avril Lavingne as an earworm!

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 08/02/2021 12:30

I uhh... what? Just place marking in the hopes of an explanation Confused

Hoppinggreen · 08/02/2021 12:30

I know some really nice good boi (dog) names