Girls with predominantly boys names - anyone?

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has anyone given their dd a name more commonly used for a boy?

any regrets? problems? any opinions (very stupid question on MN!!!)

Mainly junkmail it has to be said so it doesn't really count

my dd is charlie- jayne or cj

no problems as she is a very cheeky charlie lol but she does go to nursery with 3 boy charlies which is why we added the -jayne

DS is called Dylan

he does look cute in a dress though!

The Highland custom od naming the first child, male or female, after the father is dying out now, but in our village in the 1870s, there were several women called Hughina, Murdina (from Murdo), Thomasina and Colina.

The nurse-tutor was named Kennethina, one of my classmates was Jamesina, and my flat-mate was Andrewina.

How to feel second-class?

Sorry, that should be the 1970s, NOT the 1870s!!!

Britney Spears' sister Jamie Lynn has just had a daughter Maddie Briann.

I also met a three year old girl Jamie recently.

god comerscroft I could've been a Bob

Sasha is also a girl's name in Russia-- a short for Alexandra

Does Stevie as a girl's name have a longer form, too? I'm sort of liking it...

I actually wanted dd to have a name that wasn't specifically female - as I do. Coming from the dark and distant ages, I am sure the fact that some people thought I was male opened doors!

Dd is Alex, although for the first few hours of her life, she looked like being a Robyn!

My niece is called Bobbie.
I worked with a girl called Peta
A school friend had a sister called Lorry

Stevie would be Stephanie presumably.
Also know a female Gerry (Geraldine)
Julian used to be a girls name in the middle ages.

I desperately wanted the name Dylan for DD1, but DH just as desperate not to have it - said it was a boys' name & that's that. Although I love the name we gave her in the end, still think Dylan would've suited her, & am campaigning for it if the new one is a girl. Having about as much success, though...am liking the name Rowan, though..

theory Stephanie maybe?

nooschmoo shall we start a campaign together - although with dd2 it was me pushing for it and now its dh - you could use that as ammo

A friend's daughter has named her baby girl 'Brogan'.

Shudder........makes me think of heavy brogue shoes.

I generally don't like boys' names on girls, but I have always thought that "Marie-Pierre" was a lovely name.

I hate the French unisex Claude, Dominique, Frédéric(que) etc....

my name is unisex and has been mentioned a few times on this thread. i love it as people always remember me.
i do get people who respond to an introduction with
'but thats a boys name' (which is so rude) to which i reply
'gosh, really? well i dont think i am a boy'

didnt bother me at school, only problem i have had is in hospital having dd's they kept calling me fiona, which is my middle name as they thought it was a typo

Dylan for a girl? Really? It's dreadful! Why?

I have a unisex name, and it caused all sorts of problems when I was a child - the worst being my being unable to have my tonsils out when I was supposed to, as they had decided that with my name, I had to be a boy, and had booked me onto the male ward ...

That said, I love my name, and, while it still causes me to get letters and phone calls addressed to "Mr", I wouldn't change it for the world (mind you, it's also an archaic Welsh name, so I love it for its very unusualness (not a word, but hey ... ))

reading this thread i have a mental image of a school full of young girls running around with deep voices and beards no idea why because i quite like some of the names mentioned.

someone at the hospital the same time i had ds called their little girl Sydney. One of my friends has a little little called Ellis, thats kind of unisex.

I lived until a couple of years ago in the Outer Hebrides. As a teacher there I taught several Murdinas, Donaldinas, Donaldas, a Jamesina, a Calumina. Lots of teenagers brashly being "Dina", "Dene", "Mina" etc to shrug off the male bit.

I think actively choosing to call your girl a boys name or vise versa is a little odd. Dylan is a lovely name, but it is a boys name. You need to wait until you have a boy! Names which can be used for either a boy or a girl are different (and yes I know usage changes, but I think it a little unkind to have to be the one making the change). If I am going to meet a Hilary or a Rowan or a Kim, I know they might be male or female. Francis/Frances gives a clue, as does Robin/Robyn. And nick names are obviously fine (personally I would never give a child a shortened version of a name even if I always used the shorting). If you really like a boys name then I would look to see what the female form was and if you like it, use that (however I always cringed about Nigella Lawson, although I suspect that was more to do with Nigel)