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mothertobe789 · 04/12/2018 20:08

Ellis. I know it is unisex but would you think more of a boy or girl if you heard this name?

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MummyBearRose · 04/12/2018 20:09

I personally immediately picture a little boy with this name heard of a lot of boys names it however no girls at all!😁

AnneTwackie · 04/12/2018 20:11

Know a boy and girl: Ellis- boy (ellisss), Elise- girl (elleese)

Whatififall · 04/12/2018 20:12

Boy

WerewolfNumber1 · 04/12/2018 20:12

Ellis - boy
Elise - girl

MilkyCuppa · 04/12/2018 20:12

Boy

ernjas · 04/12/2018 20:12

I think Ellis and Elise are too completely different names? Elise is only a girls name.

As for Ellis, I always picture a boy!

Pixel99 · 04/12/2018 20:13

I do think boy as DD has one (boy called Ellis that is) in her class

WomanOfTime · 04/12/2018 20:13

I've only ever seen it used as a surname.

MummyBearRose · 04/12/2018 20:13

@ernjas I completely agree! Elise is just a girls name .. Ell-ees

mothertobe789 · 04/12/2018 20:14

Yeah Elise is a different name. I was thinking of the female character Ellis Grey in greys anatomy! Lol

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stopdropandroll · 04/12/2018 20:15

ellis seems like a boy’s name to me. i’ve met a few girls called eliz as a name on its own or you could use elizabeth and shorten to eliz/el/ellie etc...?

ernjas · 04/12/2018 20:15

@mothertobe789 yeah, just wasn't sure why Elise had been brought into it 😂 Ellis is definitely a unisex name and I think a girl could pull it off and people wouldn't question it after she was named it but I do automatically think boy first!

nuttyknitter · 04/12/2018 20:16

I have a female cousin called Ellis - she's in her sixties - but I still think of it as more of a boys name.

Anythingforacatslife · 04/12/2018 20:16

I would use it for either and we seriously considered it for dd.

strawberrypenguin · 04/12/2018 20:16

Boys name. I know one boy and no girls so that's my association

RiverTam · 04/12/2018 20:17

Boy. But it wouldn’t be totally out there for it to be a girls name.

Hippopotas · 04/12/2018 20:17

I think of Ellis Peters pseudonym of Edith Pargeter who wrote the Cadfael books

DramaAlpaca · 04/12/2018 20:18

I see it as a boys' name, but I've seen it used for girls. If I didn't know otherwise I'd assume an Ellis was male.

opalescent · 04/12/2018 20:25

My daughter (nearly two) is named Ellis. We loved its simplicity and the fact that it was quite gender neutral.
It suits her perfectly and we get lovely comments from people about her name.

lebkuchenlover · 04/12/2018 21:03

Ellis = boy

Elise, Alice, Elsie = girl

Fireandfury1 · 04/12/2018 21:05

I think boy's name but I know an older woman called Ellis! Not Elise or Elsie - they are different names.

FestiveNut · 04/12/2018 21:06

Boy

AnnieOH1 · 04/12/2018 21:10

It makes me think of Emily Bronte but then it was her male pseudonym (Ellis Bell). If I got it on CV I think I'd have to wait and see, I wouldn't want to assume. I think a lot of people would think it was female if they'd never heard the name before.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 04/12/2018 21:11

Predominantly boy, but I have heard it on a few girls, so both

LovelyGirlNOT · 04/12/2018 21:13

Sounds masculine to me

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