Opinions on unisex names

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DH and I are extremely keen on giving our DC a unisex name.

So far we have:

• Jordan / Jordyn
• Indianna
• Kennedy
• Quinn
• Bailey / Bailee
• Devon
• Jesse / Jessie
• Taylor / Tayla
• Avery

Honest opinions! (and yes we are in the UK)

They're all a bit Sweet Valley High for me. But if you like them, use them. That which we call a rose and all that.
My name, shortened, is unisex when spoken. And it's a pain in the arse sometimes. But short. So I like it most of the time!

Why would you deliberately set out to choose a name that will create confusion?

I like Avery and Taylor.

Jordan/Jordyn - absolutely awful for either gender.
Indianna - would spell it Indiana. So girly to me and not a nice name in general.
Kennedy - dislike.
Quinn - I love for a girl. Like for a boy.
Bailey/Bailee - wouldn't spell it double e. It's okay.
Devon - awful.
Jesse/Jessie - love Jesse for a boy. Jessie for a girl is awful.
Taylor/Tayla - dislike for both genders.
Avery - it's okay.

What about -
Indie?
Blair?
Darcy?
Eden?
Lennon?
Tate?
Rory?

All names I know both girls and boys of and are my favourite unisex ones.

Eva
Niamh
Olivia
Penny

Or Darby or Noa/Noah?

Like both Quinn and Avery.

Mostly for boys.

Remy/Remi or Sasha/Sacha?

Quinn looks like quim in cursive handwriting, sorry.

Drew
Jamie
Kelsey
Reece
Shannon
Cameron
Dakota
Harley
Harper
Peyton
Riley
Sidney
Logan

Dara

Rose
Poppy
Lara
Karenza

I know a girl called Julian - spelled that way. Any good?

I love Alex and Riley.

Have a friend with a DD Cooper . I reckon a lot of those "job" names could be unisex: Archer, Fletcher, that sort of thing. There's also surnames like Campbell (used for girls in America a lot) or McKenzie.

I don't think surname names work well for a girl particularly. How about a nature type name? The name of a river? Thames?

At one point a few years ago we had Cameron, Finley and Eliot at our brownies - not sure of the spellings or if they qualify as unisex but I thought I would suggest them.

Jude is biblical, isn’t it? One of the apostles?

Not my cup of tea, very American. Plenty of names are shortened to unisex names but they have a full traditional name for work/school - you have to consider this is name on their cv, can it be taken seriously?

Alexandra - Alex

Mary
Daisy
Sophia
Maud

Kennedy is ok and Jesse/Jessie, Devon, Avery and Quinn are all beautiful. Love the unisex idea!

Bailey, Jordan and Taylor are a bit cheap and naff. No offence meant to Taylor Swift. Haters gonna hate

Ice without wanting to be rude to our Antipodean cousins, they are even better than our friends across the pond with their 'yooneek' spellings so I'm really not sure I'd go there for inspiration. A friend down under knows a child called Summah, which said in a London accent, at any rate - possibly any British accent - just makes you sound incredibly gormless.

Daisy I know of two women called Julian - now I've got used to it I much prefer it for a girl than a boy!

I would also ditto the comments about Quinn being too close to quim - possibly quim is not a word in use in the US/Canada/Australia.

Never ever heard of quim..! I doubt any kids would.

Love Quinn for a boy!

Tammy But kids grow up. And they have older brothers and sisters. Quim is the first thing I would think of if I saw Quinn as a first name, I'm afraid.

yes, I didn't know this word as a child but I have known it as an adult for decades!

People have to live with their names for longer than the first 18 years of life...