"Girls" Names For Boys?

[Jossina]

I've just read a fantastic article www.kaseyedwards.com/the-subconscious-bias-of-unisex-baby-name-trends/ that made me think what "girl" names I think would work for boys. They are:

Grace
Natalie
Abigail
Kathryn Katharine
Rachel
Dora
Deborah

I really like short names that are unisex sounding anyway, DD is Jean, and DS is looking likely to be Ren.
It’s a very interesting article.
Shows how ingrained gender biases are really.

rose gold
Kyle
Rylie
Lesley
Cameron
Alex
Chris
Francis
Ashley
Blair
Casey
Drew

With the exception of Alex (always understood to be short for Alexandra), Chris (short for Christine) and maybe Blair and Cameron I think those are all very clearly boy's names. I cannot imagine calling a little girl Kyle.

RoseGold, if you are a fan of trash tv, like I am 😂 there is a female Kyle on housewives of Beverly Hills. She is (or was) an American tv soap actress.
I think once you know someone of that name, it just becomes them.

It's cultural sexism which has been ingrained for a long time. More masculinity is supposedly a promotion, more femininity a demotion. That's why it only tends to happen in one direction.

I like Kim and Kelly

I know a man called Verity.

I know a boy called Joy.

I knew a huge beast of a man called Julie and could never get my head around it!

@NewAccount270219: I'd have thought Ashley was more commonly a girl's name. I was at school with one in the 1970s. My daughter was at school with a female Casey.

And as someone said earlier, Lesley is the female version of Leslie.

There's a male crime writer called Kerry Wilkinson, and I know a male Beverly, but I agree that the general trend is that, once a name starts to be given to girls, it becomes "devalued" as a boy's name and becomes far less common in men. I know that Lesley isn't exactly a fashionable girl's name at the moment, but I think Leslie is even less so for boys. The youngest one I know personally is in his 70s!

The only name I can think of that is truly unisex is Ashley, but I wouldn't be surprised if it became more common for girls over the next couple of decades.

I know a baby boy with the middle name Rose and I think it works so beautifully. It was so refreshing to hear 😍

Francis is not unisex. That is the male version. The female is Frances.
Marian is a male name in some countries.
As are Simone, Andrea, etc.

Rose can also be a surname, though can't it. Therefore I'd assume it was either mum or dads surname and they were using it as middle name.

Tracey
Valentine
Jerry / Terry
Pat

I know adult men named Loren, Jodie, Grace and Kiki..

I know a boy called Eden

Rowan is a boys and girl’s name. The actress who played the mother in the Walton’s was called Michael. There’s Zoe and Zoey (boy). My stepson is Kit and my friend’s wife is also Kit (both their names not short for anything). I know two male Robins.

I think i was ahead of this trend! I liked kim. For a boy but not for a girl.

My sons name is a “girls” name. I do pronounce it differently than the girls version though and there is an indicator that it has a different (dont want to be too identifying) pronunciation but people do often ignore that or don’t understand it and call him the girls name.

I would consider kelly for a boy if I had another.

I also know men called Jody and Kerry.

Eden. More usually used for girls, but brilliant as a boy's name IMO.

As pp, some of the names are surnames. Grace, Rose, Eden etc are fine as surnames but not as boys' names.
Names like Michele, Nicola and Andrea are boys' names in Italy, Laurence is a girl's name in France.
I'd go for names that are not ambiguous. I am not keen on frilly long names.
However cute you might think calling your daughter Charlie or your son Eden is, it won't be you being mistaken for the wrong sex, when your child's peer group has four boys called Charlie or 3 girls called Eden in it.

'Andrea' as a girl's name is a bit odd, given that it means 'manly' (from the Greek andrós, the same root as e.g. androgen)

“Very interesting article. Maybe the solution is not to call our boys girl's names but to give out girls girl's names so they don't think they have to be a boy to have any value in society”
This.

@ErroltheDragon - is it John Wayne ( Marion) - - haven't googled honest guv - can i claim my £5 ?

But then ( and not a boy girl thing ) I do think I recall Michael Caine was born Maurice Micklethwaite. & Cary Grant - Archibald Leech.

If anyone needs a pub quiz contender for names - I am available on request

I know a couple of blokes called Tracey 🙂 and one called Kim 🙂