Cool/tom boy/no frills - girls names

[Pippathenippa]

Appreciate this style isn’t to everyone’s taste & ‘you won’t know what she’ll be like’ has been thrown around but then you don’t know if she’ll be sickly sweet when you call a little girl daisy? You may recognise me from the Connie or Frankie thread! I still feel like I’m looking for that perfect cool name for our second little girl! Please give me all your amazing suggestions, you’ve all been so helpful so far!

Who says that?

Possibly those suggesting actual male names?

@BertrandRussell

Seriously. Can anyone who thinks it is explain to me why it’s OK to give girls boy’s names and not the other way round?

They’re not ‘boys’ names though, they’re unisex but more commonly used for boys. There are names like that the other way around too. I’m not calling my daughter Dave. Read my list?

@CountNaught I don't know if it also the name of a flower but it is Norse and it means loved by God/s or godly beautiful. Ase/r are the Nordic gods. So for example, a common male name Asbjørn would mean godly bear.
Sigrid for example means victory and beauty.

@Bertrand - Evelyn or Hillary - but pretty much agree with you . They used to be unisex names ( He Evelyn and She Evelyn - Waugh )

Eden, Ada and Rose are all lovely, OP.

Blake

What about "The Kraken"?
The Kraken takes no shit. From anyone.

Bert has popped up on so many recent threads to be the voice of supposed modern feminism.

I wish I could be bothered to provide links but I must dash to give out my daughter, Nigel, to bed.

“Bertrand - Evelyn or Hillary - but pretty much agree with you . They used to be unisex names ( He Evelyn and She Evelyn - Waugh )”

Sorry to be tedious-but they were both originally male names. As they transitioned they were for a while unisex, then became female. The Waughs were the intersection point! Ditto Joscelyn and Lesley.

“What about "The Kraken"?
The Kraken takes no shit. From anyone.”
I genuinely know a girl whose second name is Danger!

Tomboy is as tomboy does. It's nothing to do with the name. One of the most tomboy girls I knew as a child has a very female name. Did it hold her back in her chosen field? Not a bit!

As so many others have said, suggesting that male names or names of ambiguous gender are somehow more 'cool' than traditionally female names does a very, very grave disservice to young girls. Surely, we should encourage them to think that it's what they hope for and dream and achieve that defines them, not whatever their parents chose to name them .

When it comes to careers, names given by parents SHOULD NOT MATTER. Ability, self-confidence, hard work and willingness to learn and share and progress SHOULD.

@ Bertrand - stand corrected - I had thought that circa 1910 / 20s they were genuinely unisex names / female names used less often for male children. I live and learn

@florascotia2 you’re reading way too much into it. Whilst I don’t disagree with the point you & others have made if you look at my list of names they’re mostly girls but more short & strong names as opposed to flowy & pretty. This was my intention from the start, not to suggest boys names/boys are better in anyway. It’s just my personal taste in names.

Lexi
Lois
Ariel

OP Am delighted to hear it. My comment was not really aimed at you but at some other contributors to the thread. If you like 'short and strong' names then that's entirely your choice. But so often on threads like this, people seem to think that giving a girl a name that has for 1000 years and more been associated with boys is somehow progress. To my mind that only reinforces the old ( and wrong) notions that girls are intrinsically inferior.

I'm not saying that girls/boys or men/women are entirely the same, however. That would be nonsense. Each sex/gender role - and individuals within those roles - has its own strengths and weaknesses.

But it was you that used "tom boy" in your title, OP, right next to "cool". Thats not people reading too much into stuff: your title implied that you were looking for something masculine and that that would be better.
If you'd just said strong and non-frilly perhaps there'd not have been the confusion?

Erica

Oh drop it @BettyUnderswoob if you don’t want to suggest names just ignore the thread. The word ‘tomboy’ has never offended anyone I’ve met in real life people just nit pick on here.

@Pippathenippa
Has anyone suggested Mika?

Pronounced mee-ka

I resent being called embarassing. I have been distracting myself waiting for my frilly names (strong, courageous, empathetic, clever) daughter’s blood test results at the same time as trying to address sexism.

@CoperCabana 😴
Oh my (sensitive, sweet, empath) daughter with a strong non frilly has kept me pretty distracted to.

Thanks @Cosmoa I really like it but a close friends daughter is called Mika! Good suggestion though/

Jamie? Jesse? Bobbie?

A few more for you (apologies if already mentioned).
Caro (Caroline)
Bobbie (Roberta)
Jamie
Sam (Samantha)
Ashley
Nicky (Nicola)