Would you use a unisex name?

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Or one that was more common for a boy, but you use it for a girl (maybe like Cameron or Finlay)?

Me? No
but I am an old stick-in-the-mud when it comes to names

(I was coming round to Cameron for a girl after watching House till I realised it was her surname...)

I would but im a wierdo.

No. Apart from Rowan. And possibly Robin.

Well my 3rd dc is called Robyn. I love it and she really suits it but it has taken a while to get used to (she's 6mths) and I do end up saying to everyone 'she's a girl Robyn' (even though she's wearing pink).

I also like Charlie and Alex for girls.

yes, I would.
I really liked Tarryn/Taran for ds2 although everyone kept saying it's a girls name

I've got a boy Robin. I was reading recently that although it was originally a boys name since the 80's only 1 in 4 Robin's has been a boy. If we'd had a girl she would have been Robyn. Must admit we've never met another boy Robin in his age group (he's 4).

i love boys names for girls.

i chose a very pretty (imho) girly name for Dd but we have ashortend version that is a boy name that we use as well.

Nah, Hatrick. Not for another couple of years anyway

Where does the name Tarryn come from? I would have said it's prety unisex - I certainly woudn't know whether it was a girl or a boy.

Why is it OK to give girls boys names, but not te other way round?

My BF called her lttle girl Charly. I also like unisex names like Sam and lee/leigh - DH hates them though

My DS is known by his initials which is fairly unisex. I prefer unisex names in some ways but then the way people are so obsessed with labelling gender gets on my nerves anyway.

Tarryn is more commonly a girls name here in Scotland

we have just called DD3 Dylan and she suits it perfectly - a lot of people just don't like it but I don't care

your baby, your time to choose what you call them

I was at school in the early 80s with a girl Tarryn, although she was known by her middle name - Jana

Robyn is very cute, tnmm.

It depends on the specific name for me.

seeker- do you know the Johnny Cash song A boy named Sue? I think that's why the girl-boy way round is less smiled upon. That and the sexism inherent in our society...

It's interesting - as soom as a unisex or boy's name becomes popular for girls, it stops being a boys name. Think of Hilary, Joscelyn and Vivian, for example. All started as male, but would sound pretty odd for a boy now.

Possibly I'd use a unisex name, dh probably less keen. Someone I know with a newborn has called him Rowan. I also know two female Rowans and two male Robins. I once knew someone with two boys, Rowan and Linden, which I rather like.

can be a bit about perception really...
to me Courtney and Ashley are, forinstance more boysnames then girlsname....so, I may have used them for a boy, but not for a girl despite liking it....

being unisex name would, basically, not put me off a name in general....!

but you might want to use middlenames that are more defining for the gender...just incase

Yes - I love the ambiguity. Quite liberating - for girls especially. I like the idea of a c.v. that doesn't give away gender.

The flip side of that is my neice, who has been Sam since she was a baby has recently started to call herself Samantha. She is starting to make a name for herself professionally (she's an academic) and she is fed up with the universal assumption that Dr Sam is a bloke. she turns up at radio stations to do interviews, for example, and there is always a double take!

I love the name Jamie for a girl or a boy. If I have another child they will be called Jamie.

There's always Jordan...

If I liked the name and felt it 'suited' the baby (as much as a name can suit a baby) then yes, of course.

Tarryn is nice, and Rowan.

Yes I think some of them are lovely although some are just rediculous I once met a girl called Daniel, not Dannielle.

My little sister is Jaimee.

I love Jaimee, Robyn for a girl, Sam, Danni and Jordan oh and I also know a guy called Jodi whilst I love it for a girl can't decide about a man.

our DS is called Rowan, so yes, I would

We've met a Rohan, but never another Rowan as yet so we're glad we've got something different but not wierd

it would still be ok to call a boy Kelly im sure. what about Peta, my big sis middle name... sounds so feminine! thinking about it, dont most names have a fem/masc version?