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HelpRe: Names I'm contemplating (inc. Myra in the UK)
in reply to a message by araslanka
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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