Drew (girl)

[Azitwas]

I really love Drew for a girls name. We are due in July and only really like this name for a girl. We don't know the sex. Grandfather is Andrew so it is also after him.

My only reservation is we don't have a feminine sounding surname, so written down as a full name and read, to me sounds like a boys name. I may be overthinking and does it really matter... lots of unisex names around now...

I'm looking for some views? Thanks

Drew is lovely for a girl, I like unisex names. Don't draw it out to some weird elongated name for the birth certificate just for the sake of it. If you like Drew, call her Drew x

I don't particularly like unisex names, but I agree with @AndTheListGoesOn about not using an elongated name just for the sake of it.

I don't like boy's names for girls, think it's sexist as never happens the other way round. And especially wouldn't use Drew which is so heavily associated with one individual.

I don't like giving girls, boys' names - or boys, girls' names in truth, though that seems to happen far less, so it's a no from me.
Drew is short for Andrew, and clearly a boy's name.

Lesley, Stacey, Hilary, Ashley.... I'd say these are all widely accepted as women's names yet they are used for men too.

@AndTheListGoesOn those are all boy's names that are now used by girls. People don't call their sons those names anymore because they're girly, and they see that as a bad thing. Fine for a girl to aspire to masculine qualities, but not the other way round.

@AndTheListGoesOn , Lesley is from Leslie, a boy's name. There are lots of Lindsays and different spellings of it my age, but it was a boy's name. As @villamariavintrapp pp, they fall out of use as boys' names.

I think Drew is lovely as a girls name. I have met a young girl called Drew, I don't think of it as a boys name at all. It's unisex.

i immediately think of drew barrymore and i just love her. She seems so lovely on anything ive seen her inZ

My name is Drew! No I’ve has ever thought I was a guy, and I have a masculine first name as a surname too. It’s never hurt me

Agree!

I've always thought that Andi for a girl is quite cool. Although we also have a fairly masculine sounding surname and I appreciate that may not work.

I wanted to call my second baby Stevie if it was a girl (it wasn't and we ended up with a very traditional name) but when I said it aloud with our surname it just reminded me of an old, crude taxi driver.

My name is Drew and I’m frequently complimented on my name as it’s still quite unusual. Never had any issues in school growing up or being told it was a ‘boys name’. I would go for it, I’ve seen it used recently for a middle name, I know a Lilly Drew and an Ella Drew.

It’s usually short for Andrew.

I wouldn’t.

No such thing as a unisex name. Oh yes-there's one. Frances/is. Apart from that, there are boy's names which are sometimes used for girls.

And when boys' names start being used for girls, they stop being used for boys.
(see Hilary, Ashley, Evelyn etc. )

Drew has never been a top name for me.

You could go with..
Sandy - Alexandra or Cassandra
or names that stem from Andrew..
Andrea
Andreya
Though the meaing for all Andrew associated names is 'manly and virile'.

Lovely, really pretty name

Drew is a male name. - for Andrew.
Dru is a female name. -for Drusilla.

Yet it is society that deemed them 'boys' names 🙄 you were probably one of the people who teased me for mine as a child ffs. And actually it does happen the other way around.

How is it “society”? St Andrew was male. That’s a fact.

Never heard of Drew Barrymore?

@CurlewKate , Francis and Frances are two different names and aren't unisex.
Some of the nature names (e.g. Star, Eden, River, Sunny) could be considered unisex, I suppose.

Because I think using traditionally male names on girls is a feminist issue I was a bully as a child? Quite the stretch...

Ds1 plays football with a Drew. It's a boys name.