Anyone else dislike traditionally boys' names being used for girls?

[Innitoutit]

Does anyone else hate the trend of giving girls traditionally boy names (Elliott, Ezra, James, Scottie, Tommy, etc.)? Currently pregnant and had a family member suggest one of these types of names for our daughter and almost rolled my eyes when she said it. I don't understand why it's so popular at the moment and why so many parents seemingly want their daughters to be seen as masculine. Maybe it bothers me because you never see it go the other way round. You never see feminine names become unisex. It does seem to be more popular in America (thankfully), but I can see it increasing in popularity here.

I was actually referring to the pronunciation, not the strict spelling of this particular instance. The point being that a British family which wished to follow the French tradition might choose a different spelling as there is more than one version in English.

For avoidance of further doubt: the suggestion in the books is that the twins were named for male ancestors called Nicholas and Lawrence because their family had expected that boys might be born. Nicola is clearly a feminised version; Lawrence is not, so MIGHT (were these real people and not a book...) be given unchanged from this particular UK male version but informed by knowledge of the French girl's name Laurence...again, no suggestion that there was any French ancestry involved either.

Oh God - now you are going to point out the differences in pronuniciation between the English and French...😅

My great aunt, has she lived would be 120 now was a Tommy (only found out at her funeral it was short for thomasina)

My Romanian plumber is called Marian. When he settled in Spain he quickly found out that it is a girls name here. So he is Mariano in Spain and Marian in Romania. No guy would be saddled with a girl´s name and bear it or be allowed to get away with it.

Surely she was? The terrifying grandmother who was the reason Mrs Marlow rode sidesaddle so she wouldn’t have how she looked from behind constantly criticised? And that Patrick escorted to Mass? She even has a name-but I can’t remember it….

Yes! It was bad enough to grow up with the feminised version of a boys' name, as it often got mispronounced, and I was sometimes assumed to be male if someone knew my name before meeting me.

One of my (very few) favourite boys' names is becoming more popular for girls, so any potential DS may face assumptions that he is a girl, despite it usually being associated with a great uncle with gout or something!

I know a Laurence and she says the name as it is said where she comes from, just like the Nicola I know says his name the way he says it.

differences in pronuniciation ha ha.