Harris…for a girl?

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AIBU?

I misheard the name “Karis” a few weeks ago and thought, ‘Harris as a girl’s name, how cool.’

I’ve done some superficial research and it seems that Harris is mostly used a boy’s first name, if at all, as it is a surname, really.

But I think it’s very fresh and cosmopolitan, and I like the unisex vibe.

What comes to mind when you think of a girl called Harris? Thoughts welcome!

Rolf

Sounds like a boy with a squint in the lower third at Mallory Towers- awful.

Malory Towers is a girls school.
And they had a girl called Darrell 😂😂😂

That would be funny if she married a Mr Tweed and took his name. Although it could be worse, I knew someone once whose wife’s first name was the same as his surname, so she ended up like Pat Pat or Taylor Taylor (the days when women always took the married name). So maybe Harris Harris.

Why is that so funny?

Carys is a beautiful Welsh name. Harris is a boy's name. Karis is a spelling mistake, in my opinion - and a hideous one at that.

Because someone said that Harris sounded like "a boy at Malory Towers" and everyone saying that Harris is a "boys name" and you shouldn't give a girl that name.

I still don't understand why you find Darrell so funny.
It's not a common name for men or women.

Have you read the Malory Towers books?
The point was people on this thread were saying you couldn't possibly give a girl a boys name (Harris)
Someone made a joke about a boy called Harris at "Malory Towers".
Malory Towers is a fictional book about a girls boarding school.
There is a fictional character called Darrell (a boys name).
The character of Darrell - despite her boys name turned out just fine.
That was the joke. If you've never read the books then it doesn't matter 🙂

I read them as a child. Darrell is a surname. I didn't think it was a boy's name at the time. I still don't see any joke there. I just thought it was a bit different.
There were girls with names like Alex, Chris, Nicky, Lindsay, Lesley and Jackie at school. Should I have found their names hysterically funny?

I thought Alicia was a nice name but the character wasn't, and poor Gwendoline Mary was so dreary, and Billie was going to be the heroine because she was a tomboy. I thought the Wilhelmina a bit of a stretch.

Enid Blyton named Darrell Rivers after her husband whose name was Darrell Waters.

@Emanwenym don't worry about the joke.
I was just making it because people seem to think that naming a girl Harris is the most bizarre thing you can do ever in the history of the universe - like no girl ever
has been given a "boys" name.
Harris is fine for a girl. Unusual - but perfectly fine.

Enid Blyton's husband was Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. The Darrell was probably a family surname.

Harris has been used for a girl. Baby name explorer. Doesn't make it right.

I’d think "Poor child, to have parents like that."

@Emanwenym so do you think Enid Blyton shouldn't have named her character Darrell?
Because it's a surname and/or a boys name?

@Needmorelego, Why do you ask that? I've not posted anything to suggest it.

It was a question.
Not a statement.
I was just curious.

Love this reply 👏.

I felt similarly about Alexaaaarndra. Great name but that pronunciation, which is not how I would say it, would do my head in day in day out.

I don't understand why you asked it. When I read the books, I didn't think anything of it.
Most of the names weren't ones I knew so it seemed no stranger than Alicia or Felicity.
It's not like she was called Harris Rivers.

(It was Bill not Billie. My mistake)

I remember being puzzled by the four Famous Five children being called Kirrin because they were related via Aunt Fanny IIRC. My cousins had different surnames to mine.

Good Scottish name but definitely for a boy.

Don’t like it - too harsh for a girl

@Emanwenym I was just curious that's all 🙂
The fact that you (and probably a zillion readers) didn't think there was anything unusual about the name Darrell shows that a girl called Harris probably wouldn't have other children thinking much about her name either.

Harris is a popular boys name in Scotland. I love it 🥰

Harris is not a unisex name 🤭