Masculine girls names

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Any suggestions? Think Dylan, James, Aaron, etc for a little girl.

The most obvious are Charlie and Jamie but I'm not so keen on those.

I love American "surname for first names" especially unisex ones, already used Parker and Carter.

Frankie (Francesca).
Charlie (Charlotte).

i've always loved Robin for a girl ( or is it Robyn ? ) - i think maybe it's a little old fashioned.

I've got a boy but didn't want to call him that - in my head it's my girl's name !

I know a girl called Felix - it's not a girls name but I think it works really well.

Henri.... I love it!

Has anyone said Lee/Leigh.

Some really cool names here!

My tuppence is Zach/Zak

I think here Rory is well and truly a boy's name. Might as well call her Dave.

I can't bear weak women so I felt Frankie was a strong name for a hopefully strong women!

Yes because strong women only have masculine names, no strong woman has ever had a feminine name. Well apart from pretty much every significant woman in history.

I say this as a woman who has a gender neutral surname as a first name, and who considers herself a strong woman, but I'm pretty sure I'd be so even if my name was Arabella as opposed to my gender neutral name.

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As a more general comment, in response to the whole issue about parents using such names, because they don't think girl's names are good enough.

This most certainly was NOT the case for my parents, and I'm sure it isn't the case for all parents who use this style of name. For my parents, it was simply a case that the whole gender neutral surnames as first name style, was their personal taste. That's it. All four of us children (me, sister, two brothers) have such names.

Oh and forgot to say, my only aversion to gender neutral names, is when the names aren't really gender neutral, they are boy's names being used on girls.

James seems to be a current one. Hate it on a girl.

Danny

I like Reese for a girl

The beautiful baby girl currently asleep in my arms is Alexandra Jessie (my beloved grandma was called Jessie). Her big sister is Francesca. So my two girls are Frankie and Alex, but with those names I could have two boys, which I guess is a deliberate choice. We've picked long feminine names shortened to gender neutral names, and they can change their nicknames in future should they want to.

I once nursed an elderly, very well-to-do lady called Nicholas :-)

I love this thread. There are so many cool names that are traditionally boys names that work well for girls.
I personally am sick of hearing of all the flouncy, flowery, airy fairy girls names that seem so popular at the moment. That is my own personal taste and I wouldn't tell anyone who had named their child one that they were wrong for doing so. I just won't be personally be using one for my daughter.
I'm currently loving Marlowe and Noa (yes, both girls names but with a more masculine feel) and Cooper.

Love love love Noa, Etienne, Harry (Harriet), Robyn and Frankie (Francesca)

I know a Bradley and a Stevie, both really suit their names

Go back a few generations in my family and there's a Clark. It's Scotland though and lots of women used to have surnames as middle names (think usually mother's maiden name or perhaps a grandmother's) so it may have been due to that.

Isn't Etienne the French equivalent of Stephen?

Etienne is French for Stephen. To some ears it might sound feminine but a French person would think you were barking or thick to use it for a girl.

Blodwyn
Olga
Bertha
Helga

They're girls names with a masculine vibe.

Evelyn
Shirley
Vivian
Beverley
Ashley
Hilary

Jayne

Love love love gender neutral names: I have two girls Francesca (Frankie) and Roberta (Bertie). If I had a boy I love the name Lyndsey.

Bertie does raise a few eyebrows though - but she can change it to Bobby when she's older if she wants.

Bertie for a girl is lovely! My newborn is Elizabeth and I've been calling her Bert in a silly way (Eliza-BERT!) but Bertie as a proper nickname is so perfect.

Not necessarily midsomermurderess. I know a female Rory, and it's a nn for Aurora which is definitely a girls name.
She was named after the princess in Sleeping Beauty

I knew a girl called Bertie - Alberta, absolutely love!!!