Thoughts on Zenith as a gender neutral baby name suggestion

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• Zenith •

I named my boy it earlier this year, it’s a gender neutral name meaning the highest point in the sky.
Just posting this as a name suggestion to others who may not of heard of it before.

I hope he never comes last in a test or a race. His teachers will snigger.

Just sounds like Kenneth to me 😅

Is you surname Windows?

Zenith, Nadir, Stratosphere, Orbit, Apogee, Constellation, Gibbous.

These are names you might give to… I don’t know… a server? Data centre?

I like that @op took the time to give the meaning, (although most people know what a zenith is already).

NO it’s a car lease company

My first thought also. Or a name for a cat ( I’m picturing a sleek, black cat).

This is the zenith of stupidity.

😂 as I was posting this I really tried to think of a male ith name and kept drawing blanks! How could I forget Kenneth!

Zenith Windows are my thoughts on it

Poor kid.

Use it as a middle name if you must, but it is unfair to saddle a child with a random word as a first name.

I think parents who try too hard to come up with unusual names just end up looking very silly and thinking of themselves rather than how it will affect the child.

Isnt it insurance?

Never heard of it as a name but I certainly know the word. Congratulations on your baby!

it wouldn’t be for me because I like traditional names like Matthew and Elizabeth but we all have different tastes, so it is perfectly fine as a name.

I know a teenager with a name like this. She hates it. She's very shy and it gets her a lot of attention. Her comment: "I wish my mum hadn't picked some random word from a dictionary to call me."

Dear god op, I hope you are just deliberately on the wind up.

Sounds like a name from the tv show gladiators

I think it sounds nice.
a lot to live up to, though.

It's a brand of camera. Something I'd think of for a cat maybe.

As long as you call your next child Nadir.

I always think of the Kath and Kim episode about calling Kim’s baby Epponay.

It’s yooneek, you know.

And Zowie Bowie changed his name to Duncan - which I think is still a funky name

Leslie is surely far more ripe for teasing on a 2026 baby than Zenith! Although teacher friends tell me name teasing doesn't really happen anymore anyway.

😂- love that comment.

Honestly this is not a name I would want any child of mine to have; but each to their own.

Zenith doesn't sound anything like Xena. Zen rhymes with Ben, Xena rhymes with Nina. Different vowel sounds.

Not sure if this is a serious comment but none of these are used for boys anymore.

There are some gender neutral names around:

Rowan
Robin
Frankie
Phoenix
Morgan
River

That kind of thing.

-ith is more commonly a female name ending so it doesn't sound particularly gender-neutral to me.