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HelpRe: Names I'm contemplating (inc. Myra in the UK)
in reply to a message by Ottilie
Casper Elliott Fox - woa, Eliott Fox is so seriously cool. I dunno about Casper really. The flow is great as a whole name but I dunno about having the first name Casper.
Caspian Douglas Jude - weird. Caspian is a G.P of mine. It's wistful and romantic and strong, and then you follow it up with Douglas! Douglas is all stocky ugliness and muddy boots. I don't think they go together at all.
Hugo Vivian Tobias/Thomas - Hugo Vivian Tobais. Love this! I love Vivian on boys or girls and I'm getting really into Hugo just now.
Linnet Matthias Henry - Uhm. Probably you're going to get a lot of people saying this, but Linnet is a girl's name. I don't think it's ever been used on a boy... and it's fine to say in theory "people give boys names to girls so why not the other way around" but I think any boy named Linnet would grow up cursing whoever was to blame.
Matthias is awesome. Henry does nothing for me.
Caspian Douglas Jude - weird. Caspian is a G.P of mine. It's wistful and romantic and strong, and then you follow it up with Douglas! Douglas is all stocky ugliness and muddy boots. I don't think they go together at all.
Hugo Vivian Tobias/Thomas - Hugo Vivian Tobais. Love this! I love Vivian on boys or girls and I'm getting really into Hugo just now.
Linnet Matthias Henry - Uhm. Probably you're going to get a lot of people saying this, but Linnet is a girl's name. I don't think it's ever been used on a boy... and it's fine to say in theory "people give boys names to girls so why not the other way around" but I think any boy named Linnet would grow up cursing whoever was to blame.
Matthias is awesome. Henry does nothing for me.
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The site may list Linnet as feminine, but I honestly don't think it strictly has to be. I say LIN-uht as opposed to lin-ET. If I raised a son who thought having a softer, more "feminine" name was something to be embarrassed about, I'd consider myself to have failed, in part, as a parent. Also, having known males with more feminine names, I can honestly say it's never been an issue for them.
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I say LIN-uht as well. Like the bird. Lin-ET would be Lynette, no?
Have you ever heard of Linnet on a boy? To me it doesn't seem like using a name like Ashley or Vivian on a boy, both of which I love. It's more like giving a boy a name like Amy. No, okay, something less common and more nature-y. Ivy. Why should Ivy be only a girl's name? It's just a plant. It sounds a little like Ivor. Surely Ivy would be great on a boy! But no one uses it, and I bet any boy turning up in highschool with the name Ivy would have hell to pay.
Maybe you'd bring your boy up to believe there was nothing wrong with a typically feminine name but until most people agree with you, I don't think using one would be the best idea.
My experiences with "most people" make me want to do nothing to provoke them to go for my kids.
Have you ever heard of Linnet on a boy? To me it doesn't seem like using a name like Ashley or Vivian on a boy, both of which I love. It's more like giving a boy a name like Amy. No, okay, something less common and more nature-y. Ivy. Why should Ivy be only a girl's name? It's just a plant. It sounds a little like Ivor. Surely Ivy would be great on a boy! But no one uses it, and I bet any boy turning up in highschool with the name Ivy would have hell to pay.
Maybe you'd bring your boy up to believe there was nothing wrong with a typically feminine name but until most people agree with you, I don't think using one would be the best idea.
My experiences with "most people" make me want to do nothing to provoke them to go for my kids.
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No, but I've never heard it on a girl, either. Honestly, I sincerely doubt a boy named Linnet would get treated that badly because of it; I've known (male) Leslies and Storms and Atlantas and god knows what else throughout my childhood and into secondary school, and no one ever saw them as weird, they were just people's names. Names don't "provoke" kids.
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