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Rory for a girl

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MissMoodyMoo · 07/05/2023 14:45

So what are peoples opinions on Rory for a girl? I really like it. We are struggling to agree on a girls name. My husband likes Ivy, Daisy, Lily and fern but think they are too cutesy and I want a strong but pretty name

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TrashyPanda · 08/05/2023 21:39

How do you get from Lorelai to Rory?

EmiliaRuusuvuori · 08/05/2023 21:38

ChildrenOfTheQuorn · 08/05/2023 21:27

I can't exactly remember but it was something along the lines of she was high on gas and air at the time.

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She said she thought it was sexist for men to name sons after themselves and whilst high on gas and air decided to do the same.

ChildrenOfTheQuorn · 08/05/2023 21:27

Eminybob · 08/05/2023 21:24

Not really the point of the thread, but why did Lorelai Gilmour name her daughter after herself? Never felt like a very Lorelai thing to do.

I can't exactly remember but it was something along the lines of she was high on gas and air at the time.

Eminybob · 08/05/2023 21:24

Not really the point of the thread, but why did Lorelai Gilmour name her daughter after herself? Never felt like a very Lorelai thing to do.

katemulberrybush · 08/05/2023 21:10

It's awful. For a boy or girl

SkaneTos · 08/05/2023 21:10

I think the name Rory is really cute, by the way, and I only know it as a girl name, since I learned about the name from "Gilmore Girls". I had never heard it as a boy name (I am not from UK/USA).

SkaneTos · 08/05/2023 21:03

WhatWeDoInTheShadow · 07/05/2023 23:32

I like it short for Aurora.

What was it short for in Gilmore girls 🤔? She wasn't also Lorelai was she?

Yes, both the mother and the daughter in "Gilmore Girls" have the name Lorelai, and the daughter is nicknamed Rory.

momtoboys · 08/05/2023 20:57

Love Rory for a girl.

LivingDeadGirlUK · 08/05/2023 20:48

Its a lovely boys name, and a loveky nickname but to knowingly name your daughter 'king' is weird. It takes less than 10 seconds to google this stuff...

EmiliaRuusuvuori · 08/05/2023 20:34

I like it but I'm a huge Gilmore Girls fan.
I think it works better with a longer first name, Lorelai or Aurora gives more options.

emma1103 · 08/05/2023 20:26

Luredbyapomegranate · 07/05/2023 23:31

No, it’s a really popular boys name and it means red king.

The Gilmore Gs character is Aurora nn Rori, so do that if you must - but honestly find something else.

No she's not. Her name is Lorelai.

emma1103 · 08/05/2023 20:25

So so many people will ask you if you're a Gilmore Girls fan. Get used to a lifetime of it!

Definitely go for a longer name that can be shortened to Rory if she wants it to be. Give her options

Kanaloa · 08/05/2023 20:24

I’ve never seen Gilmore Girls but I would presume you were a big fan because that’s my only association of a girl named Rory.

Reugny · 08/05/2023 20:23

Startwithamimosa · 08/05/2023 09:01

I seriously doubt this. Do you google the origin and meaning of foreign names? Can't say I ever have.

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People ask me what my name means and others tell me - but then I work with people from around the world and it is one of the topics of polite conversation.

I do Google to find out why so many people I work with from a specific country/region in a country of certain age groups are called a particular name.

I also have British friends who when they hear a name like that say things like "What the f%£k does that name mean?" when they think a name is inappropriate.

UsingChangeofName · 08/05/2023 20:13

pinkdelight · 07/05/2023 23:47

Nope. Why not go the whole hog and call her Roy? Only one letter difference and you wouldn't dream of it would you? Because it's a bloke's name. Like Rory. There are plenty of unusual names that work for both sexes without having to always make things harder for the kid.

This.

If you want a "strong but pretty" name, then why not go for the name of some really strong women from history - as a pp said, one of the well known suffragettes, warrior Queens or Goddesses, or our late Queen even ?

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 08/05/2023 19:47

Lovely for a boy. Give it to a girl and you'll inflict a lifetime of hassle and she'll want to know why you didn't give her an actual girl's name - was there a shortage?

ShandaLear · 08/05/2023 19:43

’This is Rory, and here are my other 3 daughters, Kevin, Gary, and Brian.’

sugarfreegum · 08/05/2023 19:41

I like it, and even more so now I have learned it is short for Aurora.

ChildrenOfTheQuorn · 08/05/2023 19:40

TheBirdintheCave · 08/05/2023 09:22

@Startwithamimosa If parents were routinely calling boys Isabella, Melanie, Sophia etc then there wouldn't be an issue with girls being given traditionally male names. Everything would be unisex and evenly distributed. It never works that way though. Girls are being given traditionally male names as parents equate them with power and strength, qualities they may or may not realise they are imagining as male.

It irks me in films as well, Gravity's astronaut called 'Ryan' for example or Star Trek Discovery's leading female character 'Michael'. Discovery is perhaps the worst for this kind of crime. Of its two leading female characters the one they called Michael is portrayed as strong and confident. Her friend Sylvia by contrast is portrayed as weak and cowardly. What is this teaching girls/women other than if you want to be cool, strong and successful then having a male name is better?

Brilliant post 👏 It captures my uncomfortableness too.

I think assuming you're a Gilmore Girls fan is the lesser of two evils tbf.

Spanielsarepainless · 08/05/2023 18:26

I wouldn't. It's a boy's name.

HappyMe6 · 08/05/2023 18:20

No, it’s a boys name

KirstenBlest · 08/05/2023 18:19

@Sugarfree23 , I know several. I can even think of tv pwesenters/pvesenters who stwuggle/stvuggle with theiw Rs

EdgeOfACoin · 08/05/2023 18:15

The suffragettes had names like Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia.

I don't know why people think they have to give a daughter a traditionally male name in order for her to be seen as strong.

I also don't understand why Ivy is seen as 'cutesy'. Ivy is strong. Ivy can be poisonous. Ivy is no less strong than, say, Rowan or River, surely? (I can see why Daisy is seen as cutesy by some.)

Anyway, I don't like the trend of giving a girl an inherently male name because I see it as quite sexist. So not keen on Rory.

However, I wonder whether Rory is becoming a unisex name as it is short for Aurora - if so, it will probably cease to be used as a name for boys.

Sugarfree23 · 08/05/2023 10:41

KirstenBlest · 08/05/2023 10:35

Boy's name. Lots of people can't say R, so you'd hear Wo-wee/Vo-vee or Auwowa/Auvova.

😆 I've only came across one person who really couldn't say R at the start a word, a maths teacher wuleas, and wubbas.

KirstenBlest · 08/05/2023 10:35

Boy's name. Lots of people can't say R, so you'd hear Wo-wee/Vo-vee or Auwowa/Auvova.