Tarquin for a girl?

[Arwhen]

So today at playgroup there was a baby called Tarquin. Dressed head to toe in pink...
I find Tarquin as such is a bit, er, hard to pull off if it's not preceded by "the Honourable" or the likes; but for a girl? Is that not setting her up for a lifetime of trouble?

Of course it may be that I'm wrong and Tarquin is a boy and just happened to be dressed in his big sister's clothes

its a rather pretensious boys name she is going to have sipping much stick when she is older :(

Bit daft. Definitely a boy's name. Could be short for Tarquinia? Clutching at straws...

I've only known boys named Tarquin. Very odd for a girl . Are you sure it was a girl?

There was a mum at a playgroup I used to go to with DD who dressed her boys in pink, because she had been given clothes that her nieces had grown out of. That was probably only up to the age of 2ish though, when I think the boys became more self aware! Maybe something like that has happened here.

Actually, when ds was a baby I used to dour him in his older sister's pink pyjamas so perhaps Tarquin is a boy after all!

Sorry, dress

Odd as a girl's name.

But I have seen photos of DH wearing pink hand-me-downs from his older sister (up until he was about 5 years old judging from the photos), so maybe it's that sort of thing.

No, awful. But I used to work with a girl who was called Tristan.

not that i like that name for a girl either, just saying, same kind of vibe.

I know a female Elliot.

And I know a female James!

Not Jamie. James!

If I met a female James, I'd be thinking that the parents must have really wanted a boy.

Hm, it was a pink romper with pink socks which had pink satin bows on them, and a pink dummy. So fairly sure it was actually a girl ( because dummies you'd buy new, right? Never used any for my kids).
I thought it was a bit odd. I did see though that Tarquin's mum had a European looking name (you have to sign in for this playgroup) do maybe she wasn't aware of the connotations (or that it's a boys name??).

Didn't James become quite popular for girls after that one model changed her name from Jane or Jamie to James. James King? And I think Elliott for girls stems from Scrubs?

Loads of women have went by men's names through history for different reasons. George Eliot the author is one example. Personally though I wouldn't give a girl a boys name or give a boy a girls name.

Tarquin not good :-(

Wasn't George Eliot just a pen name though? Pretty sure she went by something like Mary Ann or Marian in real life.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Tarquinius actually sounds better on a girl than a boy... although if I saw it on a cv I'd obviously assume a male.

Yes it wasnt her real name but that wasn't my point, my point was that many women have went under men's names in the past. Louisa M Alcott's main character in Little women was called Jo which was very boyish for the time.
Using a boys name for a girl is not a new thing it has happened throughout the ages, and indeed some men have went by girls names or have been given them at birth, a good example here being John Wayne who was Marion.
It's not new but it's not something I would do. I say give a girl a girls name and give a boy a boys name lol stops any mix ups later lol