Giving a 'boys' name as a middle name for a girl?

[FrancoisLaPrune]

I'm looking for some opinions on using the name Roy as a middle name for my DD who is due in March. Roy is my father's middle name and was my grandfather's first name and I'd like to carry on the tradition but not to the detriment of my DD!!

I'm thinking something along the lines of:

Louisa Roy L......
Evie Roy L.....
Georgia Roy L....
Sydney Roy L....

I've looked for girls names that start with Roy like Roya but I don't really like them!! I love the sound of Roy but not sure if it's off for a girl.

I'd love to hear some honest opinions

My daughter has a traditionally male name (think Scottish royal family) as her middle name. It's a family tradition, being a great-great-somebody-or-other's surname, and is given to at least one girl in each generation. She loves it. Her first name is a flower name.

I think you should go with Roy, but perhaps steer away from the more masculine sounding first names like Sydney or Georgie. Of your list, I like Louisa best.

I don't see the problem. I'd assume she'd been given a family surname as a middle name. A Scottish female friend of mine has the middle name Blair, as it used to be her mother's surname.

I vote no.

My sister is called Pamela Duncan surname i think it is lovely

I'd use Roy as a second middle name, with unambiguously female first and second names.

My mother has her fathers name as her middle name. It's slightly odd but she doesn't mind (she adored her dad which I am sure helped!).

Roy is pretty neutral I guess, although a bit dated - I have a lovely friend Roy but can't imagine it on a child somehow. I can't help but think that no one would ever give their boy an obviously female name though.

That's true. Girls called James are semi-acceptable, but boys called Lily?

I know a guy with the middle name of Hannah as it's his mum's maiden name. I think they just saw it as a surname and they didn't see that it was also a girl's first name too.

I offer you Billy Paul Piper.

Not my choice, but it's well within acceptable.

Definitely not with Sydney or Georgia. And I think it's worth considering if your grandmother was called Daisy would you call your son Matthew Daisy L..... And if not, why not?

I'd assume it was a family surname.

Roy sounds like it could be a surname. I really like the idea and I think the names sound nice together. Go for it!

No don't do it.

I have a boys middle name, and the fact is I never use it. I would have loved to use my middle name but won't, I find it too embarrassing.

Is there a family surname you could use instead?

I understand there was a coalman with a horse called Roy in Oldham in the early 1930s.

Not many people will be aware of that.

I've known a female Peta. It caused confusion.
It seems girls can have boy names provided they end in an 'ee' sound. Sydney, Toni, Billy.

Michael was the name of the actress who played the mother in Little House on the Prairie and the drummer in the Bangles.

Looks like I made that up about the actress.

I would say go for it, it's a middle name and it has meaning for you so why not.

My Gran had her mother's maiden surname ( a name that these days is used as a boys first name) as her middle name - something along the lines of Harrison or Taylor IYSWIM, so she was for example Dorothy (first name) Harrison (middle name) Smith (surname)

Not little house on the prairie Pipbin - Michael Learned was the mother in the Waltons. LHOTP was Karen Grassle.

I like Roya as suggested upthread

I have a very odd middle name and whilst I hate it as a child, I now love it. It has meaning and I enjoy explaining it to people.

If it has meaning to you and your DH agrees, please do use it. I quite like it!

Sorry, really awful. Just why?

Reminds me a joke about spanish names. If you have a boy, name him Jose Maria, if a girl, then Maria Jose.

I've quite a few female family members with 'boys' middle names. I thought it was a modern phenomena, nope. It goes way back a few hundred years in my family. Interestingly, I don't recall makes with female middle names though.

She's your child, call her anything you like as long as it's a name you love

Isn't Drew Barrymores real name Andrew? I quite like Roy. You could use Ray or Rae instead?

I actually really love it.

DS has my mothers maiden name as his only middle name. And so will DC2, regardless of gender (tho it's obviously a surname, not a forename).