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PUGMEISTER21 · 20/10/2026 20:17

dustysidetable · 19/10/2026 18:45

My husband is insistent on a gender neutral name for our twins, I’m happy with it in principle and there’s so many gender neutral boys names I love but I’m really struggling for girls!. The only one I like is Shelby but he doesn’t like it at all. My favourite girls name is Sylvia but obviously that isn’t gender neutral, I like soft sounding names and not a fan of the nick names like Stevie, Bobby, Riley etc. Any ideas?

Frogmella and Spudulika

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 20/10/2026 20:26

ThunderFog · 19/10/2026 18:55

Port and Starboard

Loved this. What about Stern and Aft?

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 20/10/2026 20:31

Nancy
Mary Anne
Wendy

ToKittyornottoKitty · 20/10/2026 20:33

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 20/10/2026 20:31

Nancy
Mary Anne
Wendy

Not exactly unisex?

Lulu1919 · 20/10/2026 20:35

Casey

Italiangreyhound · 20/10/2026 20:36

Alex is often short for Alexabder or Alexandria. Is his relative really called just Akex?

CallyOMally · 20/10/2026 20:37

Reece
Ashleigh

TheBirdintheCave · 20/10/2026 20:39

There are two types of genuinely neutral names: nature names (Robin, River, Ocean etc) and diminutive names that have a masculine and feminine version (Alex, Charlie, Jamie, Max etc).

Beyond those categories you have boy names that people stole to use on girls (Aubrey, Avery, Morgan etc).

This is probably why lots of names don’t feel quite right to you, OP. I’d do some searching within the first two categories and see if anything appeals :)

Gottogetoutofthisplace · 20/10/2026 20:50

Ariel

Daygloboo · 20/10/2026 20:54

user293948849167 · 19/10/2026 21:21

Dale could work for a girl or boy too, similar to Dana

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There was an american girl called Dale at my secondary school

Bootsray · 20/10/2026 21:06

Wren
Aspen
Sorel
Georgie
Ashley/Ashleigh
Vivienne
Blue
Kimi/Kim
Frankie

ReadingSoManyThreads · 20/10/2026 21:26

beeble347 · 19/10/2026 20:03

Doesn't sound like you're on board then? Don't force yourself if you can't find one you like, it has to be a compromise.

I'd look to American names for more gender neutral ones. Rowan and Quinn are good ones on girls. Bobbie too.

For what it's worth, I think Sylvia is gorgeous.

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I'm so confused, you talk about American names, then state two Irish names!

GabriellaFaith · 20/10/2026 22:59

Off tangent here, but I'm curious as to why they need to be? Just seems a shame if you have a name you really like.

Cardisncocktails · 20/10/2026 23:03

dustysidetable · 19/10/2026 18:45

My husband is insistent on a gender neutral name for our twins, I’m happy with it in principle and there’s so many gender neutral boys names I love but I’m really struggling for girls!. The only one I like is Shelby but he doesn’t like it at all. My favourite girls name is Sylvia but obviously that isn’t gender neutral, I like soft sounding names and not a fan of the nick names like Stevie, Bobby, Riley etc. Any ideas?

How can you have 'gender neutral girls names' ffs?? Am assuming this post is a wind up.

ToKittyornottoKitty · 20/10/2026 23:13

Cardisncocktails · 20/10/2026 23:03

How can you have 'gender neutral girls names' ffs?? Am assuming this post is a wind up.

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You could read all OPs replies, or report it if you think it’s a wind up. No need to come on just to be rude though, OP has explained herself already

PracticalIdealist · 20/10/2026 23:42

Galveston.

Slinkybabe · 20/10/2026 23:52

dustysidetable · 19/10/2026 18:45

My husband is insistent on a gender neutral name for our twins, I’m happy with it in principle and there’s so many gender neutral boys names I love but I’m really struggling for girls!. The only one I like is Shelby but he doesn’t like it at all. My favourite girls name is Sylvia but obviously that isn’t gender neutral, I like soft sounding names and not a fan of the nick names like Stevie, Bobby, Riley etc. Any ideas?

Ashleigh xx

FindingNeverland28 · 21/10/2026 04:20

My name is Laurie and I was going to be called Laurie if I was a boy.

Iizzyb · 21/10/2026 05:04

It is an absolute pain having a name that can be male or female why would that be a reason to choose someone’s name?

HenriettaHippopotamus · 21/10/2026 07:26

ReadingSoManyThreads · 20/10/2026 21:26

I'm so confused, you talk about American names, then state two Irish names!

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Isn’t Quinn just traditionally a surname in Ireland? It’s using that as a first name for a girl that’s American, I believe.

Its like MacKenzie - It’s a well known surname but it became a fad to use it as a first name for a girl in the USA.

godmum56 · 21/10/2026 08:50

TeethAreImportant · 20/10/2026 19:01

Wasn't it John Wayne's real name?

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no he was Marion. Marion Michael Morrison

Behaveyourself88 · 21/10/2026 09:56

Sidney
Beau or Bo if girl
i used to know a pair of twin girls who were called Lee & Toni.
please don’t call a boy Patsy, remember babies grow up and in Brighton a Patsy is a different meaning for that name! Think of school and how names get shortened and kids take the Micky.

ColdWaterDipper · 21/10/2026 10:58

Both of my boys have what are technically gender neutral diminutives to their boy names (and we call them by their diminutives, think something like Charles being called Charlie (would be Charley for a girl), and Christopher being called Kit (would be kitty for a girl)). We didn’t choose that on purpose.

have you considered Jesse / Jessie or Manu (short for Emmanuel / Emmanuella)? Would a shortened nickname work or does the whole name need to be completely gender neutral? I like nature names, which can easily be for boys or girls with no change even in spelling. Things like Rowan, Ash, Phoenix, Juniper, River etc, or alternatively place names: Paris, London, Rio, Sennen, Perran, Zennor etc.

Thebigarsedbitch · 21/10/2026 11:57

Tell your husband that when he goes through all the discomforts and inconveniences of pregnancy and birth, he can chose the name of the child/children and then insist that you will select your favourite girl's name for your daughter and it won't be fucking gender neutral either!

MelrosePlace12 · 21/10/2026 14:15

Jaime / Jamie. - I know a girl Jaime and it suits her so well
Jude
Blake