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Cooper for a girl?

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MrsXx4 · 04/04/2017 11:38

Would you find this odd? does anyone know any girls named Cooper? we know of boys named this.

Its a family name and we'd like to include it somehow but don't know if its a bit too 'out there' to name a little girl it?

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nursebickypegs · 05/04/2017 12:15

It's very americanised if I'm honest. Is cooper meaningful to you?

goldenrachita · 05/04/2017 12:17

Sorry but it is exceptionally ugly name, especially for a girl. And the tradesman association is too much for me. Use it as an extra middle name, the way you would a maiden name you wanted to use.

ZeldaWasMyGransName · 05/04/2017 12:21

Love it!

DramaAlpaca · 05/04/2017 16:42

God no. Awful for a boy and even worse for a girl. Middle name if you absolutely must.

Mitzy Grin Grin

icantgetnosleep5 · 07/04/2017 13:42

No no! 🙈

nooka · 08/04/2017 03:44

It's a relatively common boys name where I live, and I find that pretty strange. Why is it popular to call your son a description of a (obsolete) tradesman? We have Coopers, Thatchers, Hunters etc. I assumed they were all known as their surnames when I first moved here.

Even odder for a girl. I don't really see the honouring of a grandmother in it. I doubt she thought of herself primarily by her surname. Use your nans first name as your dd's middle name and pick a really nice girls name to go first.

nooka · 08/04/2017 03:51

and babyspider I think it is highly unlikely that boys will be called Ava any time soon. Boys don't commonly get called names that are perceived as unisex, and once boys names start to be used for girls they drop down the popularity list for boys pretty quickly. Very few male Lesleys, Kims or Hilarys being named now.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 08/04/2017 11:51

Well there was a thread on here a few months back about a baby boy named Ivy.

Hockeymumof4 · 09/04/2017 21:08

I have a cooper (ds) he gets called Super Cooper. I think it's a name you grow into. It could work for a girl

Spadequeen · 09/04/2017 21:13

I like it. Cooper also a family name for me (dont think we're replayed though!) but possibly best as a middle name, however if you like it as a first name, go for it.

AmyC86 · 09/04/2017 22:05

Cooper is my Dogs name 😶

ZeldaWasMyGransName · 10/04/2017 14:44

A (close) family member just named their dog the same name as me... goes both ways!

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user1492108328 · 13/04/2017 20:24

I know you want to honour your nan and that's fair enough and in fact lovely, but you need to be fair on your child as well, and no I don't think Cooper is appropriate as a first name for a girl so it would fail as being fair on her IMHO.

Some parents like so called strong masculine names on daughters, and, if you do, Cooper fits that ticket okay - but, with the meaning of a beer barrel maker, and so commonplace a surname, I wouldn't be impressed with it for a boy, and as for a girl - how many girls really want to have and to go through life with a distinctly masculine name? I don't think many do, or at least, many don't. One of my friends is called Samantha, and she was always called Sam growing up - and she even hated that, and from early adulthood insisted on people calling her Manth or Manthie for short instead.

Cooper is okay for a middle name. But in your shoes I would look at using a variant of your nan's name instead, a feminine sounding one.

Okay so many of your relatives have already used your nan's name for their daughters but most names have variants. For example, I'm thinking of giving my daughter the middle name Pearl to honour my great grandmother, whose name was Margaret. I don't like the name Margaret - too harsh a sound for me - but it means Pearl, and Margaret means Pearl, so for me that's after my great grandmother.

Ohyesiam · 13/04/2017 20:30

It would be ok for a cat. But only a tom cat.

AbernathysFringe · 14/04/2017 01:22

It's just American to use as a first name. And the annoying, Californian kind. Not at all attractive to say or look at written down. As a surname it's as interesting as a bit of cardboard (and I say that as someone who has one in the family).

KristinNewman84 · 28/06/2018 07:57

Why are some people such judgemental assholes?! My daughter's name is Cooper Elizabeth and I couldn't imagine her with a different name! And yes we called her Cooper the pooper when she was a baby and it was freaking adorable!!! Her nickname is Coop and while I love her name being so unique I love MORE that there are more smart people who realize it's an adorable girl's name!!!!! But the criticism is ridiculous!!!! Like aren't there girls named Apple and Cocoa?!? No judgement but I mean is Cooper REALLY that bad?!?!? Ugh!!!!

AnyaMoondial · 28/06/2018 12:46

I love your comment kristinnewman! Good for you!!

MikeUniformMike · 28/06/2018 14:48

Cooper for a girl? Yes if you want people to assume she's a boy.You won't be doing her any favours.
KristinNewman84, the world is full of judgmental assholes, and a name cannot be 'so unique'.
It is not an adorable name - it is naff.

HeyDolly · 28/06/2018 19:33

Kristin people stopped being ‘judgemental asseholes’ on this thread more than a year ago - the last post before yours was April 2017 Grin

Joeybee · 29/06/2018 22:49

Cooper is a definite boy name, and dog name. Tbh I can't imagine it on an adult human at all. It might work on an American boy in the Midwest, but not anyone else.

buttercup54321 · 30/06/2018 00:04

It is terrible. Use it as a middle name only.

mathanxiety · 30/06/2018 06:11

ZOMBIE thread.

mathanxiety · 30/06/2018 06:12

And strange first post ever....

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