to be [shock] that MN has 'Charlotte' as one of its baby names for the day... for a boy??

[Littledidsheknow]

Er, it's a girl's name, surely? The 'lotte' part is a diminutive, suggesting feminine... it's the girls' version of Charles! I'll get flamed for making gender distinctions here, but would you call your son Emma? Jane? Sophie?
Thought not.

I call my dd 'Bernard' on a regular basis.

It's probably just a mistake

Oh here we go...

This is going to be Jaydon all over again. Lairy sneeriness and snobbery.

DS1 is called Charlotte OP and DS2 is called Emmeline.

Got a problem with that?

What's snobbish or sneery about asking this?

There are some English names which have become unisex (Evelyn, Hilary, Lindsay/Lindsay, Terry, Ashley, Francis/Frances, Jamie). I've never heard of Charlotte being anything other than a female name.

For me it's a name I'd associate with female members of the Royal family. There were several queens and princesses of that name.

Joking Phaedra

You're soooo mainstream, OP.

That's exactly what my daughter Gary just said.

Tbf Arsenic I was feeling genuinely sorry for your sons and I'm pretty sarcastic IRL, sometimes things don't translate to the written word;)

ARF at people thinking Arsenic is serious.

I expect it's a mistake.

I've never heard of Charlotte being used for a boy, unlike some of the examples given by Phaedra

Surely its ok as long as you spell it "sharlut"?

Better that way anyway. You need your son to have a unique name that the kidz can spell.

I'd say Charlotte is a unisex name. Like Balonz.

Blimey my three girls are dave, David and davey I guess people are going to get snotty about that now

Now I've got an ear worm.....a boy named Sue....Johhny Cash, perhaps!

AR a thread that contains both my name and both of my dds.

To be honest the older I get the less amazed I am at the ridiculousness of people's name choice.

Jamie Oliver being the prize winner I think

Greek bureaucracy insisted we spell DD's name Lili Harlot but we managed to dodge that bullet!

My nephew is called Charlotte. Personally I think his parents are trying too hard...

And in the male version the lotte is pronounced ie ... Hth

youthecat "I had three sisters and they were called Donald, Eric and Basil"

In the country I live in Noa (pn Noah) is a very popular girls name. People would be and if they heard of a boy called Noah.