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Post by pjaye on Nov 8, 2022 3:55:32 GMT
And ow Rebel Wilson has just announced her new daughter is named Royce, I think that's awful for either sex, but particularly a girl.
And before we get the "but her name is unusual" comments, "Rebel" wasn't her given name, she was christened Melanie Elizabeth Bownds.
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Post by craftymom101 on Nov 8, 2022 18:10:23 GMT
I like the name. I know a female "Aaron," who is awesome. My daughter is Erin, and she absolutely hates her name, because it sounds like a boy name. Just this past weekend, we went to Starbucks and they wrote Aaron on her cup. She just did a super hard eye roll. She’s hated her name since pre-school, when she found out about the boy name. DH purposely wanted her to have a boy name (let’s name her Roberta, but call her Bobby, or Jessica=Jessie, etc.). Erin was my compromise. She said she would have preferred the ones my husband picked, and insisted that she be called her full name (except for Roberta, she didn’t like that one). As a fellow Erin, this makes me sad! I like my name, even if there are boy “Aarons” out there. Allow I talk fast and on the phone some people think my name is “Anne” or “Karen” and I have to correct them. Hopefully your daughter will learn to love her name. ❤️
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 8, 2022 19:23:51 GMT
I don't care about Wesley as a girl's name. Twitch from the Ellen show has a step daughter with that name.
I associate that name with a relative who is kind of a dick and that annoying kid from Mr. Belvedere. 😃
For me, it's the creative spelling that will be a PITA for the rest of their lives.
Sincerely, First name with two capital letters.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 8, 2022 19:44:56 GMT
Sincerely, First name with two capital letters. I had to think about this one... still can't come up with much, but I do remember a girl a few years behind me in school whose name was B'Ann. Pronounced like it was spelled: Bee-Ann. Her mother's name was Breeze, if I recall correctly.
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Post by melanell on Nov 8, 2022 21:05:04 GMT
I don't think the lack of boy names is that big of a concern. Half the population will just continue to name their boys a variation of -ayden. Aiden, Ayden, Aidan, Aydan, Aaden, Jayden, Jaidan, Jaiden, Kayden, Braydan, Braiden, Zayden, Caiden, Cayden, Raydon, Paydon. I hear you. But that still doesn't help the boys named Zayden when it suddenly becomes a top 20 name for girls instead.
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Post by aprilfay21 on Nov 8, 2022 21:27:08 GMT
I don't think the lack of boy names is that big of a concern. Half the population will just continue to name their boys a variation of -ayden. Aiden, Ayden, Aidan, Aydan, Aaden, Jayden, Jaidan, Jaiden, Kayden, Braydan, Braiden, Zayden, Caiden, Cayden, Raydon, Paydon. I hear you. But that still doesn't help the boys named Zayden when it suddenly becomes a top 20 name for girls instead. Sounds like an opportunity to teach them that a name doesn't make a man, and it's not something to gatekeep.
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 8, 2022 21:34:52 GMT
I had to think about this one... still can't come up with much, but I do remember a girl a few years behind me in school whose name was B'Ann. Pronounced like it was spelled: Bee-Ann. Her mother's name was Breeze, if I recall correctly. WendyJo BrendaLee
Not my name, but you get the idea.
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Post by picotjo on Nov 8, 2022 21:48:21 GMT
I suppose they could have named her Emilleigh or Emileigh which IMO would have been even worse. I know a girl named Emmaleigh. She will forever be spelling her name. I don't mind Wesleigh. Drake I dislike.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Nov 8, 2022 22:10:58 GMT
I had to think about this one... still can't come up with much, but I do remember a girl a few years behind me in school whose name was B'Ann. Pronounced like it was spelled: Bee-Ann. Her mother's name was Breeze, if I recall correctly. WendyJo BrendaLee
Not my name, but you get the idea. I was thinking along the lines of McKenzie or MaryJane. Or SueEllen. There's someone on my town's Fb group called L-La pronounced Ella.
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Post by Peal on Nov 8, 2022 22:16:41 GMT
Wesley is my son's middle name. And my FIL's middle name, and my niece's son's first name.
If I were to run into a girl named Wesleigh, I would judge her parents pretty harshly in my head.
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 8, 2022 22:21:58 GMT
I was thinking along the lines of McKenzie or MaryJane. Or SueEllen. Yeah, it's basically two names mashed into one. I however live in Utah where everyone tries to be unique. Only child #1 has his name spelled right most of the time despite my best efforts to choose the most common spellings of common names my other two children constantly have them spelled wrong.
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Post by charlatan on Nov 8, 2022 23:57:46 GMT
WendyJo BrendaLee
Not my name, but you get the idea. I was thinking along the lines of McKenzie or MaryJane. Or SueEllen. There's someone on my town's Fb group called L-La pronounced Ella.I think I'd legally change my name. I can't imagine how many times that person has had to explain their name and deal with the inevitable dumb comments and jokes.
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Post by peasquared on Nov 9, 2022 0:45:05 GMT
I like her name. I have always loved the spelling of Leigh. I come from a family of uncommon names (although mine has become quite popular the last 10 - 15 years. So much so, that now people ask me if I changed my name. I think the younger generation, who are the ones having babies, are more open to gender neutral names than their parents. (Just my opinion) Either way, I'm sure she is the apple of her mommy and daddy's eyes.
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Post by RosieKat on Nov 9, 2022 2:11:19 GMT
so no judgement but a secret bit of judgy.. lol LOL, can I steal this comment for my real life? It's pretty perfect for a lot of things! And yeah, I do agree here. It's not my cup of tea at all and I think it will cause challenges for her for her whole life. Admittedly I'm pretty traditional about names, and what someone names their own kid doesn't really impact my life, so I guess...no judgment but a secret bit of judgy?
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Post by RosieKat on Nov 9, 2022 2:15:22 GMT
Seems that moms of girls only think about how the girl will like having a “boy” name. But as a boy mom I recognize that there is even more stigma when girls start to have their names. My oldest has a name that I had only heard of boys having, but there were some girls in his school that had names that sounded the same but spelled differently (kind of like wesleigh here). It isn’t a huge deal, but he has mentioned several times over the years that he doesn’t like that and it makes his name seem like a girls name. After we had my youngest I started seeing more girls with his name as well. I was really hoping it wasn’t going to become more popular for girls than boys. I get that people don’t have to consider other people’s feelings when they name their kids, but wanted to share a different perspective. I definitely agree that can be an issue. When DD was born, the "boy" name we had thought of had Rowan as the middle name. At the time, it was more commonly known as a boy name. Now, I only see girls with it and I'm really glad we had a girl then, and decided we liked a different boy name before DS was born. As it is, DS has a name that has a more common female counterpart and he gets called that by people just reading his name (doctor's appointments, for example) as it is.
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Post by Gennifer on Nov 9, 2022 14:15:26 GMT
I was thinking along the lines of McKenzie or MaryJane. Or SueEllen. Yeah, it's basically two names mashed into one. I however live in Utah where everyone tries to be unique. Only child #1 has his name spelled right most of the time despite my best efforts to choose the most common spellings of common names my other two children constantly have them spelled wrong. Don’t forget the other charming Utah trend, where all 8 kids start with the same letter. I have two sisters (and two brothers) with traditional names, two with mashup double names, and one with a made up name with two capital letters, but we all start with G. (Including my parents.)
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Post by CardBoxer on Nov 9, 2022 15:07:23 GMT
I had to think about this one... still can't come up with much, but I do remember a girl a few years behind me in school whose name was B'Ann. Pronounced like it was spelled: Bee-Ann. Her mother's name was Breeze, if I recall correctly. WendyJo BrendaLee
Not my name, but you get the idea. Peggy Sue is an ear worm now. Buddy Holly song. Double names or names where the first and middle name fit together seem mainly a southern U.S. thing. I googled to check. “You don't need a map to know when you're in the South, just listen for the double names. When you hear mamas calling for little Sarah Jean or Bobbi Sue, or the waitress's nametag reads Eliza Jane, you'll know you're in the South. Southerners love a good double name, especially when it comes to naming little girls. But where did it all begin? In Europe, many countries that had strong ties to the Roman Catholic Church and wanted children to be named after a saint, but since things could confusing in a classroom filled with nothing but Annes, Barbaras, and Catherines learning their ABCs, clever parents started to double up on names. Soon there were Anne Catherines, Catherine Annes, and as the Beach Boys reminded us, Barbara Anns.” For the rest of the article: www.southernliving.com/culture/double-names-souther-tradition
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Post by melanell on Nov 9, 2022 17:55:47 GMT
I hear you. But that still doesn't help the boys named Zayden when it suddenly becomes a top 20 name for girls instead. Sounds like an opportunity to teach them that a name doesn't make a man, and it's not something to gatekeep. Johnny Cash taught me otherwise. Seriously, I'm not judging anyone or telling anyone what they should or shouldn't name their kids. I just happen to know a few guys who went through this exact thing, so I think of them when these sort of name threads pop up. And since this thread was asking what we thought, I shared my thoughts.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Nov 9, 2022 18:34:43 GMT
My sister just named my new little nephew Marco and as a teacher all I can think of is how many times he will be sitting in class at the beginning of the year or with a sub where they call roll and when the teacher says Marco everyone else will yell Polo! My nieces and I pushed the name Graham which was their 2nd choice, but in the end Marco won. Or Marco could be the one to respond with POLO when his name is called. That way he's cutting off any teasing before it starts.
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Post by SabrinaP on Nov 9, 2022 21:12:35 GMT
My sister just named my new little nephew Marco and as a teacher all I can think of is how many times he will be sitting in class at the beginning of the year or with a sub where they call roll and when the teacher says Marco everyone else will yell Polo! My nieces and I pushed the name Graham which was their 2nd choice, but in the end Marco won. Or Marco could be the one to respond with POLO when his name is called. That way he's cutting off any teasing before it starts. Yep we decided he would either be tough or the class clown! We shall see!
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