Unisex names? Suggestions

[SimplySara]

Any suggestions on nice names that would work for either a boy or a girl?

Sorry you feel like we're ganging up on you OP.

As I said I grew up with a unisex name and can only give you my opinion based on my experience. I am not a girly girl at all. I was very much a toy boy growing up. But even still I disliked having a unisex name.

The wirst thing for me was the one and only boy at my school who had the same name as me was put in my class at high school. So for 6 years I was known as 'Girl Sunny' and he was known as 'Boy Sunny'. It was rubbish.

Julian used to be a female name.

I have a unisex name.
I hated the question 'male or female?' if unsure I was the person. To add insult to injury, I also have to spell the sodding thing.
WRT to your point about gender specifics... no matter how you raise your child in a gender neutral environment, nature will always dominate at some point. While I have had my more gender neutral/tom boy phases, I am actually quite a girlie girl, with a very quiet personality, so a unisex name doesn't suit me as a person. Better if you prefer to give a longer gender specific name that can have a unisex nickname.
But this is just my opinion!

When was Julian a girl's name?

St Julian the medieval hermit was a woman.

But we have no idea what her name was- she's only called Julian because her hermit cave or whatever they are called was in the grounds of a church or an abbey named after St Julian.

I wonder if we would still have known her real name if she had been a man.

Martorana - how about Carol, Tracey, Jessie or Lesley? They're all unisex names that are mostly used as girls' names.

I have a unisex name and I really like it.

But they started off as boy's names.

Isn't Gillian/Jillian a corruption of Julian? I believe I read somewhere there lots of versions of Julian (f) such as Juliana/Gillian were v. Popular in the Middle Ages.

Interesting thread. There are a few names I'd genuinely use for either a boy or girl:

Blaine
Blair
Finn
Flynn
River
Rory
Rowan