George - middle name for a GIRL?

[user1485718975]

Hi everyone, looking for some honest advice.

What do you think of Alice George for a little girl?!

We're keen to have a family link or something sentimental for her middle name but have a selection of bad female names in our family! We do however have a male George and a female George in the family as well as a close female friend called George (who was my husband's best man!) The females are both Georgina but only known as George.

Do you think it's too masculine and weird? Or just something fun/quirky? And does it work with Alice?

Honest opinions please!! Thanks :)

[MrsNuckyThompson]

I think it works. Where I'm from surnames are often used as middle names so girls might often have male sounding names as middle names.

Besides I think it sounds quite cool.

[Pemba]

It has a nice sound, but I really think you should make it Alice Georgia or Alice Georgina. Unless you want to be explaining to your annoyed daughter in 5 years time why you gave her a boy's name for her middle name - she may not see it the way you do.

[Starlyte]

Don't forget it's not you that'll live with the name, but your girl, at school, then later. If you add a feminine ending she could choose herself which she prefers.

[Becklit]

Thanks everyone for your input and responses (both positive and negative!) it's given us lots to think about.

I knew it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea but refeshed to see how many people love it!

@Hanban16 I love that George is your's and your Grandma's middle name! Is it a family surname? Really good to hear hat you get positive comments on yours!!


For those who have said would you call a boy George Alice? For me George Alice isn't comparable, as Alice is not gender neutral at all! I appreciate for some people George isn't either, but, knowing several female Georges, it is a more gender neutral boy's name for us than others.

I am the OP btw - changed my name!

Thanks again xx

[Becklit]

Whoops posted too soon!

For me George Alice isn't comparable, as Alice is not gender neutral at all! I appreciate for some people George isn't either, but, knowing several female Georges, it is a more gender neutral boy's name for us than others.

I am the OP btw - changed my name!

Thanks again xx

[Hanban16]

Oh and fleurdelacourt people never stood around me and laughed at my middle name! What a horrible thing to suggest! God knows what sort of people you surround your self by!

[empirerecordsrocked]

I think it sounds lovely.

[Hanban16]

Well my middle name is George. I love it. It's individual and people always comment on how unique it is. My grandmas name was Jeanie George and I plan on giving my daughter the middle name George too!

Don't listen to small minded people who struggle with anything other than normality! Normality is boring!

I vote George all the way xx

[Salmotrutta]

My mum has a masculine middle name as did both my grandmothers.

They were family surnames and used to include both sides of the family in their full names.

It was a very common practice at one time (here in Scotland anyway)!

Nice for future genealogists too to leave them little clues

[Dolwar]

I agree with Clary and Soph. Why can't you use the actual female version? It's so much nicer for the poor child

[reuset]

Though I prefer Georgina

[reuset]

It's just a middle name, which won't make any difference and are rarely used anyway. One of the assumptions people will make is that it's a double surname (George being a surname, stating the obvious) or the mother has added her maiden surname, which is not uncommon too. But I like George, it's little different from Sam, Jo etc and it's only in the middle.

[Puremince]

I think as a middle name it's fine. My three DCs all have a family name as middle name (my maiden name, MIL's maiden name, DM's maiden name) If I had the maiden name George, I would have used it as a middle name regardless of the gender of the baby.

[fleurdelacourt]

The French precedent is not very meaningful though? In France and Spain there was a trend (some years ago now) to give girls with double barrelled names a saint's name as the second name (so Marie-Pierre, Marie-Georges, Maria-Jose etc) - equally there was a trend to give boys female saint's names as their second name (Jean-Marie Le Pen).

That doesn't make Alice George any more sensible for a British baby in 2017.

[piebald]

It is lovely, and if she finds it difficult she can change it to georgia, its just a middle name she will probably like to be a bit different for a good reason .
Definately use it

[Ordinarily]

No, not George for a girl. Georgia, Georgina, Georgiana all fine.

[CatRash]

I am a George - full name is Georgina.

Yet I don't like George as a potential middle name - go for Georgina or Georgia.

[PlasticBertrand]

There's a French politician called Marie-George, so you do have some precedent if you want to use it as a girl's name.

[passingthrough1]

I love it.

I do generally agree with the argument that you wouldn't call a boy a girl's name etc and we should own and take back feminine names. BUT this is a middle name only. I do know men with female middle names as it happens and also my child and many friend's children have surnames as middles or second middles to include the woman or man's surname, whichever isn't used as the actual surname.... middle is where you put all the stuff you want in there for the principle of it but don't want your child to have as actual name.

[CancellyMcChequeface]

Alice Georgia or Alice Georgina - keeps the family connection without giving your daughter a boy's name.

George for a girl just makes me think of the Famous Five character, and even she was Georgina nicknamed George. You said that the female Georges you know are Georginas too. It's just odd to call a girl George. If you were having a boy would you name him George Alice Surname?

[chocolatepudandchocolatesauce]

Namechange30 there are plenty of feminine surnames. What about:
Beverly
Brooke
Casey
Courtney
Hailey
Harper
Kayleigh
Kelly
Leigh
Lesley
Lynn
Maddison
McKenzie
Paige
Scarlett
Shirley
Taylor
Tracy
Whitney
OK most of these sound American, or are no longer popular in the UK but they are still surnames which are predominantly used by females as first names.
I maintain that I think George for a girl's middle name is fine, especially as in the op's family all the girls who have a derivative of it call themselves George, and it has a significant family link.

[Helenluvsrob]

Just don't! I have a surname/male style middle name and hated it until I was pretty much middle aged . Even now i don't boast about it or wish I'd passed it onto my kids, even though it's may paternal grandma maiden name and that's why it's there rather than Just " liking" a random name.

[PurpleDaisies]

I think you're overestimating the importance of middle names fleur.

[fleurdelacourt]

awful.

imagine when she's asked what her middle name is - cue lots of laughter all around her. If you had a boy would you call him George Alice? no

would anyone give a girl George as a first name? no.