Josephine or Astrid

[ShutUpAlex]

Stuck between these two for a girl.

Also some boy name suggestions as I haven’t seen a single boys name that ive liked!

Astrid

Josephine. Classic. Not one that's fashionable for a few years then marks you as born in a particular decade. It's a lovely name.

Joseph for a boy?

Josephine

@ILoveStickers

Love Astrid.

Josephine is fine, but I'm personally not a fan of female versions of male names.

How does this policy work with gendered language?

I think they’re both lovely. How refreshing to hear such normal, proper names spelt correctly.

Josephine by far. Not keen on Astrid at all.

Like them both

Josephine is a beautiful song by Chris Cornell. I think that would nudge it over the line for me.

Josephine definitely. Astrid will be the next Isla, they'll be everywhere and it'll lose it's attraction.

I think Josephine is a lovely name. My view of Astrid might be coloured by my DHs thieving ex.

Josephine for sure , Astrid too harsh .

No, not Astrid, reminds me of an aliens name.
Probably the asteroid association my brain automatically does.

I like both names, although I would go for Josephine myself as I feel its the "safer" option. Astrid reminds me of Fringe so there is a positive connection 😁

I really like both but would probably go with Josephine as I feel Astrid may becoming a bit faddy and will date.

Josephine is lovely and I also love Josie, Sephie and Joey

I love Josephine, I think it's beautiful and elegant.

Agree with pps about Astrid being very of the moment. I think it will be a name that is very obviously from this decade. Not necessarily a bad thing, but Josephine is timeless.

@TatianaBis "How does this policy work with gendered language?"

How do you mean? Sorry, genuinely don't understand the question! Not a policy, just a personal preference?

Astrid

Boys name suggestions:
Josiah
Joel
Cosmo
Joss
Conrad
Hector
Ash
River

My mum was Josephine. Known as Jo or Josie. It's a lovely name. My daughter has it as a middle name.

[quote ILoveStickers]@TatianaBis "How does this policy work with gendered language?"

How do you mean? Sorry, genuinely don't understand the question! Not a policy, just a personal preference?[/quote]
Some languages are gendered right?

Astrid, but then I’m Scandinavian and I love it.

This reminds me of a time my SIL suggested I name my dd Fanny, as I already had an Alexander. I was like ‘My poor child would be ridiculed”. So stay away from Fanny but Astrid is lovely.

I’m Scandinavian, and it sounds fine in Scandinavian.

Doesn’t sound great in English.

Astrid is a divine name. Josephine is nice but feels a bit frumpy - sensible middle aged women.

@TatianaBis "Some languages are gendered right?"

Yes? I'm not sure what that has to do with the OP's question!

I just happen to like girls' names without a male equivalent, on the whole. So, in this case, I like Astrid more than Josephine.

It is also true (but irrelevant here) that I like Sofia, Eva and Caterina in Italian, and Sophie, Madeleine, Genevieve, Agathe and Chloé in French! (Just using my friends' names as examples, but I do like them!) Languages with grammatical gender have plenty of these kinds of names too.

Astrid! Lovely name

Josephine

I am a Jo (Joanne) and therefore a bit biased towards the name. I have some friends who lengthen my name to Josephine and love it!

The 'Jo' names are also fairly uncommon these days having been wildly popular when I was a child.

Sorry but I think Astrid is quite clunky. It's like Gertrude.

Josephine