Is it cruel to give your son a “unisex name” nowadays

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Elizabethdelver11 · 21/05/2022 13:21

This is random but i was just looking through the new US Name list and names that were once male names are predominantly girls names and have been for the past 20 years. It just got me thinking about how it would be cruel to give your little boy a name like Ashley, Taylor, Addison, Avery nowadays. (I Always thought Ashley sounded like a girls name anyway)They don’t even make the top 200 now for boys. I would imagine boys today would be heavily bullied to have such “feminine” style names. They are unisex but I think many people now associate them with girls! I know I do. What’s everyone’s opinion on this? Is it just me

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Penguinsaregreat · 27/05/2022 22:37

Well said Babyjellyfish.

IStandWithMaya · 27/05/2022 22:48

I know a boy called Lindsay. It's almost never used for girl babies these days!

Notateacheranymore · 27/05/2022 22:56

MiddleNameJane · 21/05/2022 14:44

I don't really like this widely-held view that it's "cool and modern" to give a girl a boy's name, but "cruel" the other way round.

I'm not saying that's your view OP but I hear it a lot on and offline, either implied or explicitly stated.

OP, try being a Vivienne in the early 80’s when the only other time this name was heard in my Northern industrial town was being screeched out of Rik Mayall’s gob on a weekly basis.

Always hated my name for this reason, and I was even bullied by my older brother to save himself from being bullied by his peers for having a sister with a boy’s name.

The nuance of spelling was COMPLETELY lost on those kids. But I like to think today’s kids are more enlightened. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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