Avery

[LuckyFlash]

DH and I both love the name Avery for a boy. I realise it’s a bit marmite so not especially looking for preference on the name. My worry is that although it is traditionally a boys name, the popularity of it as a girl name in the US will take over entirely. Very happy with a unisex name but I hate to give my kid a name that in 30 years time is the new ‘Hillary’ or ‘Leslie’ where men are almost laughed at for having a ‘girls name’. Thoughts?

I absolutely love it, but having lived for a short while in Canada it was very common there as name for girls. So I would always think of it as a girls name. I seriously considered it for DD1 but realised that it might get a strange reaction in the UK (which this thread is proving). I know not is traditionally a boy's name but I personally feel it is quite a feminine name.

I've only known it as a surname.

Boy's name.

And a deatheater in Harry Potter

I thought of it as a girls name, and one I absolutely love, but not sure about a boy....would be worried everyone would assume he is a girl

I came on to say I absolutely love this name! But for a girl sorry op.

I first heard it when 9yr old dd was watching something or other American on YouTube and think it’s gorgeous. She used it for one of her American girl dolls.

I would find it odd for a boy but of course it’s your choice.

I think it's a great name but I do think it is more for a girl .

Avery is Fern’s older brother in Charlotte’s Web, so I’ve only ever known it as a boy’s name.

Greengrocers scales and bird enclosure are my first thought.

I desperately wanted to call DS1 this as I wanted a name that was not unheard of but was unusual enough for him to be the only one at school with it for example. I was watching Nashville at the time and loved it.!DH didn't like it at all and we called him something else, Top 100 but not outrageously popular where we are. I pretty much forgot about it until he started nursery. Where there was another boy called Avery

It's a lovely name, I'm sure it's veering towards unisex now but still definitely acceptable for a boy, I'd probably just go with a bit more of a masculine middle name.

I assume boys name

LOVE this name, was really gutted that it doesn't go with our surname so I couldn't use it for DD. I probably wouldn't use it for a boy though...

I like it and it's unisex to me.

My youngest (girl) is Avery x

It’s unisex now, originally a boy’s name. It’s fine. I know a 1 yr old boy called Avery

Unisex. There was an Avery on Nashville. I think it's ok

While traditionally a boy's name it is used so much more for girls these days, that, yes, it's like Hilary and Leslie. And Ashley and Kelly and Evelyn.

I know four Avery's, but then I'm in Oz and it's a very popular name here. All girls, BTW.

OP, were there any other names you like?

Didn't know Avery was a name but l would say it is a girl's one at a push.

Avery is a market leading brand of printable labels

I think of address labels

A bird enclosure is an aviary not an avery

Always thought it was a girls name but this based solely on only knowing one - a girl.
Also think of Avery hill - area of SE London.
Also labels.
For a boy it reminds me of Aubrey.

Oh god - I can’t look past the bird cage aspect - which would be spelt aviary. Conjures thoughts of newspaper & bird shit. I suspect for many people. Why would you?!

I like it and would say its unisex