Rory, for a girl?

[TheMummyJade]

I recently met some parents at the playground who had a daughter named Rory and now I'm really considering it. I know it's typically a boys name but I think it sounds really nice, and suited the young girl I met with the name. I also like it for the fact it's a 'boys name', because I think it will then suit our other children's names, since they're all boys. When we mentioned it to my SIL, she said it reminded her of Gilmore Girls, which isn't a bad thing, but do you think that's what people will always connect it with? I am starting to really like it, but don't know how it compared to some of our other top options, e.g. Lydia, Keira, Mia, Violet, Elodie.
Thanks in advance everyone x x ❤️

Romy did come from Rosemary originally, though.

@harrietm87 , the rapid rise in popularity is from 3 girls in 2011 to 39 girls in 2022, compared with from 586 boys to 1435 boys.

@Potentiallyplausible , it was from Rosemarie, and it was a stage name.

How about Brian or Steve?

Or Wilfred or Hubert?

Love it, especially as short for Aurora

Actually quite cute for a girl with the Rorie spelling, looks more feminine! Love it (unsurprisingly, as it rhymes with my DDs name!)

I know baby girls called Riley, River, Robin ...

@Alphabetamega "I love it. My DD10 has a traditional boys name, while sometimes she’s misgendered it doesn’t bug her or us. She unusually proud of the fact she’s got a ‘traditional’ boy name and is a girl - she loves it."

I hope your DS Sophia is proud of the fact that he has a traditional girl name. If not, why not?

Every Rory I know is boy.
We have a baby Rory in the family.

I was talking about boys.

the rapid rise in popularity is from 3 girls in 2011 to 39 girls in 2022,

Wow, that's a large increase in Rory used for girls. And that's on top of Auroras, Lorelais being k own as Rory

I really like it (but I also really like surname names so what do I know)
As someone with a 'boy' name myself, I can confirm that it is quite common for people to expect you to be male - but it has never been more than a 2 second conversation
Them: Oh, I assumed from your name you were a boy
Me: Oh did you
End of confusion

Why don't we give boys girl's names?

Short for Aurora, fine. On its own - will get mistaken for a boy. I can’t work out why it’s short for Lorelei personally, except that it is on Gilmore Girls.

@harrietm87 , R names are very popular for boys now.

@MerryMarys , percentage-wise it's a huge increase but tiny in terms of how many more boys are called Rory now. Aurora is in the top 50 but it's not that popular.

Probably because we don't want to

Doesn't mean parents can't give their girls unisex or boys names. We thankfully live in a free society

Yes, we live in a free society and when no longer children can choose new names instead of the naff ones our parents gave us.

Love it. Full name Aurora. Nick name Rory

It’s lovely, but bear in mind that there is nowhere to turn should your daughter struggle with the letter ‘r’. ‘R’ surrounded by vowels, argh.

@MerryMarys "Doesn't mean parents can't give their girls unisex or boys names. We thankfully live in a free society"

Of course they can and we do. But aren't you a little curious about why it's OK to give girls boy's names (or unisex names, which is basically the same thing) but not the other way round?

Aurora with shortening Rory is better

We have a girl Rory in LLL tonight

Tho gay and dresses/is the male in the relationship

Hope I've worded that correctly

I wouldn’t use Rory for a girl.

I think Aurora is one of the worst girls names so I wouldn’t use that just to use Rory as a nickname.

Who are all these people demanding others ‘explain their name’? Why would she have to explain her name? I’ve never asked someone to do that, never heard anyone ask that of others, or had someone complain to me that people have asked them to explain their own name.

I have an unusual name, so do a lot of my friends, I’d think someone was a complete plonker if they asked anyone to ‘explain their name’. Maybe it’s a good way of weeding out people you don’t want to talk to ever again?

In addition, I have a son with a nickname that’s a traditionally female name. It’s not been an issue so far, but we live in an area where people don’t tend to be as closed minded about names that aren’t Jane and James.

Obviously anyone can call their child anything. But surely it's worth thinking about why giving a girl a boy's name is considered a good thing and as least one poster on here has said something for her to be "proud of" while nobody ever gives a boy a girl's name. And why names which have always been boy's names but start to be used for girls plummet in popularity for boys....

Likewise. As soon as I read that it was for a girl, my mind straight to the Gilmore Girls. But IIRC, Rory is actually a nickname for Lorelai. @TheMummyJade You could go for Aurora or Lorelai and have Rory as a nickname to give more options in the future?