Finley for a girl

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Thoughts on this?

My ds has a friend who is a girl called Finley I really like it and she doesn't seem to have any issues :)

I really like it 🥰 I think it works as a girl or boy name personally. But you will have to explain she’s a girl quite a lot when she’s a baby! Not so problematic once she has longer hair! It’s only like Riley, Eden, River.. back in the day I went to school with a female Jamie, no-one confused her for a boy!

No.

I really like it, it’s not like it’s a very hard, masculine name. Go for it

Yes, it sounds fine for a girl.

It's not super masculine like eg Romeo

How about Fionnuala?

https://nameberry.com/babyname/Fionnuala

Or Finolaa?

It's an awful name for a boy or a girl, along the lines of Casey-jayed, Kyle, Jayden etc

It really isn't along those lines at all it is a Scottish/irish name . And what is wrong with Kyle and jayden etc anyway ?

Awful for a boy and even worse for a girl.

I assumed (without thinking) that the op is English. If she's Scottish or living in Scotland then the name doesn't have the same stereotype surrounding it.
English people who name their hildren Finley, Jayden, Kyle, McKenzie, Chelsea, Chardonnay and add 'Leigh' onto names tend to be 'chavy'.

All the boy/girl patriarchy thing - all yes, BUT you could just look at it as Finley being a name that's popular at the moment to the point of being really overused and therefore pretty boring. So why not find something far less humdrum?

I must know about ten versions of Finley, all under 12 - it's DULL.

I think it’s MUCH better for a girl!

I don't like Finley or Finlay for either gender, but agree that it's not particularly masculine sounding.

I love it !!!

I have a (male) horse called Finley. So no.

I genuinely thought it was a boys name.

That's because it is.

I know a girl called Finty which I think is nice and has the same vibe?

I'm with NameChange30 here. Names that were once used only for boys sometimes end up being used for girls too. Guess what, if they become popular girls' names, they stop being used for boys at all so that boys don't get tainted by being thought to be female.

Names that are commonly used for girls never, ever start being used for boys while there are still lots of girls/women with the name.

Calling a girl a traditionally male name does very little to challenge this.

The real change would be if we saw lots of little boys called Margo, Rose, Sophie, Victoria etc.

I won't hold my breath.

nameberry.com/blog/unisex-baby-names-names-that-morphed-from-blue-to-pink This article lists lots of names that have switched from boys to girls in the US, and when it happened.

www.bustle.com/articles/155836-14-baby-names-for-boys-that-are-typically-girl-names This article suggests some names that are currently popular for girls but could be used for boys. Very telling that all the author is doing is pointing out that every single name on the list was originally a boy's name and maybe the trend could be reversed. No suggestion that names that have always been mostly used for girls could start being applied to boys.

I think Finley sounds quite soft and feminine.

Finnian would be a stronger boys name imo.

Terrible.

It’s a boys’ name. Simple as that. And not even a particularly nice one.

Boys name.

There was nothing soft and feminine about my Great-Uncle Finlay!

Definitely works as a girls name, it just so happens that it predominantly being used as a boys name as it's on trend for boys.

It makes me think of the children's books Finley Flowers and she's a girl?

I taught a Finnleigh - loved the name for her but the spelling is too much!