Boyish girls names

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If I like:

George (Georgina)
Max
Beau
Robyn
Ollie (Olive)...

..what else will I like? They are not quite hitting the spot but are along the right lines.

Don't even know where to start with boys names!

My dh used to work with a girl called Blaise.

Surely calling a boy Beau is the equivalent of calling a girl Belle?

There's some evidence that calling a girl a unisex or traditionally male name advantages her in terms of later job opportunities and earning potential, I would go for it.
I always wanted to call a girl Jasper. A lot of less common male names work well for girls and modern unisex names like Quinn and Sage or the surname type names Cameron etc work well for both sexes.

I love all the unisex nature names - Robin/Robyn obviously, but also Willow / Rowan / Ash / Ashley etc. Also really like Morgan for a girl or boy.

I don't think with any of those you'd get assumptions that someone is male or female, as they tend to be given to both sexes equally.

Dorian

Sandberry - would be very interested to see that research - genuinely so.
I know that 20th cent female pioneers - such as the most admirable Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley - used male names to help establish their businesses in male-dominated sectors, but (maybe foolishly) I might have hoped that the need for such dissimulation had disapeared by now.

Even if it had not, I would feel a bit unhappy about 'giving in' to male power structures by letting people assume that a girl's name was somehow second best.

Unisex names all sound a bit bland to me, but if people like them, then why not...

I teach a boy called Jocelyn (Joss) and grew up with a boy called Blaise. Also, a friend (boy) of ds is called Kasey.
I think all these can work for girls too.
Also taught a girl called Stevie.
What about Jude?
Gaby? Know boys called Gabriel and Dorian??

Oh yes, taught a boy and a girl called Rowan.

Acer?

"There's some evidence that calling a girl a unisex or traditionally male name advantages her in terms of later job opportunities and earning potential, I would go for it."

The only professional woman I know with a traditionally male name has found it a persistent pain in the arse. But anecdote is not data. I'd love to see the evidence.

"Surely calling a boy Beau is the equivalent of calling a girl Belle?

But would you call a boy Belle?!"

Nobody would. And people on here would be down like a ton of bricks if anyone suggested it. That's the point I've been trying to make. Also once a name passes from boys to girls, people almost invariably stop using it for boys. A name is "demoted" by becoming a girl's name.

I think you have now made your point pretty clear Hakluyt

I'm leaving the thread now. Thanks all for some great suggestions :)

"A name is "demoted" by becoming a girl's name."

I'm not convinced - plenty of people call their boys Rowan / Sam / Joss / Morgan / Willow / Ash(ley) / River etc despite the fact that all those names are also commonly used for girls (Sam as a nname, obviously!)

Thomasina (Tommy) - love this, not allowed
Roberta/Robyn (Bobby)

Chance

I have a DSis called Charlie (not Charlotte, just Charlie) and a DSis called Billie.

One of the mums round the school has a baby girl called Noa.

I think Noa is Philippine girl's name anyway. Based only on the fact that I know of two female Noa's - one adult from the Philippines, and one 11month old whose mother is Philippino. So perhaps not q representative sample.

Oh that's interesting. Her brother is married to a Phillipino lady so that must be where the inspiration came from.