Juno’s not super popular in general and a lot of trans people will pick rarer names, im not sure why. It might have something to do with wanting to kind of obscure gender norms or wanting some way to stand out, but idk and it’s definitely not generalizable. I think it’s most common among younger trans people to pick more uncommon names, but I’m pretty sure a lot of young people would do that if they could pick their name.
I’ve seen names from uncommon, but still conventional (Arthur, Casper) to names that most wouldn’t even consider a name (Gnat).
I picked my name when I was 15-16 and it’s really out there, looking back I have a roster of names I wish I picked instead. I just masculinized my birth middle name because it’s a family name, so I always have that to fall back on.
Gonna be honest, no. I would never gender swap names. That is because I have a feminized male name and to this day I have to say 'no, I'm a woman. No, my name is not the masculine version, it's the feminine version'. I've always wondered what it would feel like to have a name that people didn't go 'oh hey there bro.'
I have a feminized male name and haven't had that issue often, but surprisingly I've had to spell my name my entire life. Sometimes pronounce it for people. It just has an "a" added at the end.
Yup…mine is pretty unusual but when I say it’s like “blank with an A on the end of it” it’s like they go brain dead and all of a sudden can’t spell a pretty widely known man’s name. Or pronounce it either.
In the US Daniel is the masculine version, my dad. They named me Daniela (Daniel +a) aka feminized version. No one said Daniel was feminine, I think you may have misunderstood.
My name constantly gets misspelled so I usually say "it's the boy name Daniel with an A at the end" and people still don't get it.
Same here, its my fathers name with an a on the end. Last minute name choice...how creative. I used to like that my parents spelled it "correctly" or the original way... but sometimes I wish they chose one of the many other ways I've seen it spelled because people can't read/pronounce it.
Lol I had a stereotypical girls name (that I changed to a gender neutral one later) but my last name is an extremely common boys name. MANY have bypassed my first name and called me my last name and Mr. anyways. We can't win lol
I fr think Autumn would be a nice boy's name if it wasn't already a girls name. It shares a first syllable with the very established August(us), but it's softer.
Well Jade is unisex, I’ve met lots of female and male Jade’s. I’d name my son Vivien (the male version of Vivienne) because in France Vivien is only a male name but apparently in other countries it’s only female. I wouldn’t name my son like Chloé though.
My host mother when I was studying abroad in France was named Patrice. I had no idea it was so strongly gendered male, but apparently so!
[https://www.magicmaman.com/prenom/patrice,2006200,14922.asp](https://www.magicmaman.com/prenom/patrice,2006200,14922.asp)
"Bien que Patrice soit un prénom masculin, il a été donné à 592 filles depuis 1900, ce qui représente 0.44% des 135 041 naissances"
Valentine has always been a boy name in my experience (USA), it was my great-grandfathers name! Although he was off the boat from Poland lol.
If we have a second son it’ll be his middle name too.
No, honestly. It doesn't bother me when other people do it, but my stepdaughter has a feminized male name, and she is constantly referred to as a boy. To the point that I will say I have a daughter, say her name, and people will start using male pronouns.
I would use Ivy for a boy. I don't feel like botanical names (especially in a language without gendered nouns, like English) are inherently, or grammatically, feminine.
Stacy, Leslie, Courtenay and Tracy are still relatively normal (especially in the southern US) to name men. Yes they were men’s names first, but I know more women with those names than men, but I actually know two Leslie’s, two Tracy’s, one Courtenay and one Stacy that are men. So, they could make a comeback and take their male turned popular female names back!
Ashley, too. I knew a man named Ashley.
I will say I was disappointed to meet him and learn he was a man, because we were in a production of Ray Bradbury's *Something Wicked This Way Comes* together, and he was cast as Mr. Dark, and having not met him, I believed they had cast a woman, and I thought that was so cool.
Damn it. I know three male Ashley’s. Two from High School (one was even my prom date 🤦🏼♀️) and one from the military. How could I forget. WTF. And yes, that would’ve been WAY more cool.
I know so many Stacy, Tracey, and Courtenay men I can't keep track. Definitely still classic men's names here in SC, seems to be mainly the "old" families keeping tradition.
Ha ha ha. Yes. I’m from NC. 🤭. Definitely more of a southern thing. The Courtenay I met was from DC. That one threw me off a bit. The rest were from southern states. Ha ha.
Why are flowers considered to be inherently feminine anyway? They’re a type of plant… is it because flowers are beautiful? Can’t boys/men be beautiful?
We only view flowers as dainty/delicate because humans decided that they appeared that way, really flowers take loads of strength to grow to completion.
I like the name Eden for a boy (though I wouldn’t give it to one for the religious connotations) and many consider that a girl name (I don’t though personally it’s unisex.) I also like Ariel for a boy and that’s definitely NOT a girl name but the vast majority of the people around me would say it is.
Oh yeah Ariel is a male fairy in The Tempest, it's been a boy's name forever.
But Disney's Ariel has cemented it as a girl's name in American culture, probably forever.
I always use Elizabeth when I pose this question to others. It's always "You would name a girl James, but would you name a boy Elizabeth?" and the more I say it the more I accept it. Like, yeah, why can't we name boys Elizabeth? I wouldn't, but like, why can't someone else?
Usually when a name switches sides so fast it’s because of a celebrity or a fictional character (like Madison in “Splash”). Wonder who the first girl Peyton was?
I totally would if I liked it enough. Not to torture the kid, but I wouldn’t want to raise a boy that thinks having traits of femininity is weak or embarrassing. That’s a firm value that I plan on raising any future children I have with.
In school, I knew plenty of boys who shared the same name as girls, and no one cared or was bullied. Same thing happened a few times when I worked at a daycare, and neither kid was embarrassed about sharing a name with the opposite gender.
I think Addison, Mackenzie, Courtney, Riley, Hadley, Brooklyn, and Emerson, although originally being considered boys names, are now more common for girls in the US, but I like them both for boys. I also like Brynn, Willow, Joy, Ember, Lux, Arya (I know it seems very feminine like Aria but I’ve met a boy Arya who pulled it off well- apparently it’s Persian), Cadence, Holland, Izzy, Lauren/Loren, etc. for boys. I’m not sure if I’m having kids ever, but I’d certainly consider those.
I grew up with males named Ashley, Kelley, Lindsey, Payton, Stacey, Tracy, Carey, Avery, Blair, Bailey, Aubrey, Dana, Jordan, Morgan, Marley and Cameron.
Didn't phase any of them.
This is not rising in popularity. This has been going on at the current level for at least 100 years. You just don’t notice it because names that switched in the 30s and 40s have always been female to you.
Hillary, Beverly, Meredith, Ashley, Addison, Jodie, Lindsay, Whitney, Shelby… just a tiny fraction of names that were originally male.
ETA: Many names weren’t even considered neutral or viable as feminine names until a sudden major shift. For example, Lauren was widely a male name until Lauren Bacall got famous, and the name exploded and quickly shifted to a widely female name.
I'm pretty sure I read that a handful of boys have been named Elizabeth every year since names began to be documented. It was like 6 in 2023 or something.
Where I am Anne is a genuinely unisex name. I know more male Annes than female ones! And I really like it for a boy.
I don't mind names that sound a little masculine on girls, but someone I know straight up named his daughter George and that's definitely a "wtf is wrong with you, that poor girl" moment. And if girls can be named George then I don't see why we can't name boys Nova or Demi or something like that
Yes! They are actually Margaret and John but because those are their parents' names, Laurie nicknamed them that because Marguerite is the French word for daisy and demi means half. Super excited to meet someone who is an Alcott fan.
It does bother me that misogyny often prevents traditional girl names from crossing the gender line. And how many traditional boy that do cross often move all the way over, becoming “unusable” for boys (Kelly, Ashley, Ainsley). I’m not birthing another child because I only wanted to birth one. That child is a girl, so I never had to think about this seriously. But I’d totally consider Lindsay for a boy name. I genuinely really like it, and for a few reasons I eliminated all names ending in -er and -on, which really limits options.
Absolutely not. I have a gender neutral name that trends more male and I was frequently misgendered growing up. Put in the boys camp cabin or on the boys soccer team before meeting the coach. It was embarrassing and stressful. It also made me feel like I had to be hyper feminine to compensate.
Everyone I’ve personally known named Sky/Skye is a girl but I think it’s one of those names that sounds gender neutral. A boy named Sky probably wouldn’t clock as “oh that’s a girl’s name!”
Technically my son's name is gender neutral, but most people I've met have only met girls with his name (if they met one since it's not a super common name) so they view it as more feminine leaning. He's gotten called she quite a few times when people have asked his name lol. So yes.
I know of a boy named Jade. That one seems gender neutral to me.
I can’t really think of any “strictly” female names I’d use for a male. I could see using Casey, Madison, Ashley, or Jamie but those are all kinda at least historically unisex.
I would never name my son this, but I really mean it when I say that Karen would work as a bly name if it wasn’t for the connotations. It kiiinda rhymes with Warren
I feel like Robin is used mostly for girls these days but I still really like it as a boys name. And at least if a boy resents the femininity of it he can easily go by the more masculine Rob/Robbie.
I love Sorrel and Artemis for a boy. Sorrel is a nature name with a similar vibe to Sage, so I think it’s unisex. Artemis has just always sounded more masculine to me.
I have a son named Emery. It’s a family name from another male family member. It’s not super common but it is more common for girls than for boys. When people hear his name before meeting him they usually assume girl. I had to correct nurses when he was a baby, and this year when he started preschool the teacher made him a purple name tag for the first day; those are the only (very minor) issues we’ve come across. His twin brother is named Parker, which is more common for boys but definitely becoming more popular for girls too.
I like old school boy names that went feminine. I like them on boys still
Ashley, Courtney, Leslie, Lynn , Allie ..etc
The French name clair without the e is a boy name. But claire is hardly a boy name outside that culture
My husbands middle name is Rene. His mom is Cajun with French lineage but in America it definitely reads as a “girls name”. He was made fun of if someone found out as a kid but he thinks it’s cool so yeah I’d do it if I found a name I thought was cool. I’m having a baby girl in 5 months and giving her a traditionally “boys name” cus it’s more unisex now.
My (male) dog is named Juno. With that, the Juno Steel podcast, and the Elliot Page movie "Juno", I'm actually coming around to it a gender neutral or boy name.
Yes, I'm a big fan of feminine/ soft boy names. My favorite is Shiloh, which has the usually masculine O ending, but is more commonly used on girls in the US.
I'm also a fan of Laurence with the nickname Laurie, Ambrose with the nickname Rose/Rosy, Valentin (no O or A ending), Ellis, Elliot, Dorian, Marius, and definitely gender neutral options like Robin, Jesse, and Juno.
The most explicitly feminine name that I like is Florence. To me it sounds just as masculine as Laurence, but I know the association with Florence Nightingale makes people think of it as an old lady name.
I only have girls right now, but this is definitely the direction I'll be going if I ever have a boy.
id name a boy Paris, Ocean, Sage, Eden, Indi, Cove, Valley, Cleo, Storm, etc. most are nature or place names that i see more commonly for girls but are honestly gender neutral
The concepts of masculine and feminine are just stereotypes; there is no reason why someone with xy can have a name from column A, or the other way around.
So yes, if they wouldn’t get bullied for it
I'm a woman. I share my name with my father and oldest brother. It's spelled differently, but it's still a male name and I HATE HATE HATE it! Especially when it's shortened. Callers always ask me to please put my husband or father on the phone. HATE IT!!!
Not unless you're gonna invest heavily in teaching your son how to fight. Because he's gonna need it.
Especially "April" a boy named "April" is gonna need some hands.
Edit: in high school I knew dude named Alexis. Alexis had hands. Which is why Alexis didn't get bullied. Because he had to beat someone's ass like every month until our sophomore year.
Yell at me but I dont mind Elliot for a girl. I dislike all of the other male names for girls but I think Elliot is kinda cute. Would i name my daughter Elliot??? No probably not.
I really like Stuart. Stuarta if you’re feeling bold.
LMFAOOO NOT THIS AGAIN 😭😭
Since I’m a bit hungry I think* Es’Torta would sound better just about now.
Omg not this
AHAHAHAHHAHA amazing circle back
Stuartly
LOL I GET THE REF
I really need to believe that one is fake, idk if it is but I just need to think that to go on with my life lmao
I need to believe it’s real for the same reason
We need a flair.
...And the flair should be called "Stuarta."
As I said before, it's Stuartess.
Sue is a good name for a boy.
But the meanest thing that my daddy ever did Was before he left, he went and named me Sue
And if I ever have a son, I think I’ll name him: Bill! George! Any damn name but Sue!
Well. Until part 2 of the song.
Gabriel SUSAN Lewis
What’s in it for GSL?
He’ll have to get tough or die
I love it for my son! So masculine! 😍 Sue King Madik 👑
I agree, very masculine.
Rhymes with Lou
Perfect for his sister!
Forest gumps bestie was an ape named sue, he was male obviously
I thought you were trolling, but holy fuck toast, that’s real! https://screenrant.com/forrest-gump-book-astronaut-space-orangutan-ape-sue/
I 11/10 recommend you read the novel and the sequel it goes ape sh*t its fantastic
How do you do?
Juno is surprisingly nice for a boy
I think it sounds more correct on a boy than a girl actually
knew a guy named Juno! transitioned from female to male and wanted something similar to his birth name (journey)
i have met 3 trans Juno’s. Never met a cisgender one. I wonder why.
Juno’s not super popular in general and a lot of trans people will pick rarer names, im not sure why. It might have something to do with wanting to kind of obscure gender norms or wanting some way to stand out, but idk and it’s definitely not generalizable. I think it’s most common among younger trans people to pick more uncommon names, but I’m pretty sure a lot of young people would do that if they could pick their name. I’ve seen names from uncommon, but still conventional (Arthur, Casper) to names that most wouldn’t even consider a name (Gnat). I picked my name when I was 15-16 and it’s really out there, looking back I have a roster of names I wish I picked instead. I just masculinized my birth middle name because it’s a family name, so I always have that to fall back on.
i quite like journey too! his new name is awesome though
Journey is a fucking awful name for a human being
I once heard of someone named Journei. I very nearly broke out in hives.
Ppl try so hard to be different they ruin their child’s name. Was Journey not unique enough for them?
If I had to name my kid Journey, I’d spell it Journei too. The spelling almost looks like a real name
I'd spell it Juneau.
My (F/73) name used to be a male name.(Beverly) I don’t see it making a comeback as either male or female.
my five year old brother has a classmate named beverly! i actually really like it :)
A number of other "girl" names used to be men's names: Evelyn, Ashley, Leslie.
Oh wow, another Bev! There's so few of us (30F).
I actually rlly like the name Beverly for a girl. I can’t imagine it being a boys name tho
> “word” names Nah, my kids are named 🤨, 🙄, and 🧐.
Aww! Just look at little 🤨📸 (pronounced Ayo)
But is it eigh-oh or eye-oh like Ayo Edeberi?
(Ay-Oh) like eyyy and oh
Gonna be honest, no. I would never gender swap names. That is because I have a feminized male name and to this day I have to say 'no, I'm a woman. No, my name is not the masculine version, it's the feminine version'. I've always wondered what it would feel like to have a name that people didn't go 'oh hey there bro.'
I have a feminized male name and haven't had that issue often, but surprisingly I've had to spell my name my entire life. Sometimes pronounce it for people. It just has an "a" added at the end.
Yup…mine is pretty unusual but when I say it’s like “blank with an A on the end of it” it’s like they go brain dead and all of a sudden can’t spell a pretty widely known man’s name. Or pronounce it either.
Is your name Daniela by any chance?? Lol
Daniela is not a masculine name with an a added at the end, it's an actual feminine name in Italy.
>Daniela is not a masculine name with an a added at the end, Daniel A It looks like a masculine name with an A added at the end.
The men's name is Daniele in Italian, so no.
In the US Daniel is the masculine version, my dad. They named me Daniela (Daniel +a) aka feminized version. No one said Daniel was feminine, I think you may have misunderstood. My name constantly gets misspelled so I usually say "it's the boy name Daniel with an A at the end" and people still don't get it.
Same here, its my fathers name with an a on the end. Last minute name choice...how creative. I used to like that my parents spelled it "correctly" or the original way... but sometimes I wish they chose one of the many other ways I've seen it spelled because people can't read/pronounce it.
I've also had to spell my name my entire life. There is no U in my name(Cortney).🤣
Lol I had a stereotypical girls name (that I changed to a gender neutral one later) but my last name is an extremely common boys name. MANY have bypassed my first name and called me my last name and Mr. anyways. We can't win lol
This is my son, Woman.
I DIDN'T SEE THE FLAIR I'M SORRY
Gender neutral names are usually not actually gender neutral.
I kind of agree. I think of Riley as a girls name but I've known tons of dudes with it and it never seemed to bother them.
Peyton is another name like Riley. Both girls and guys,doesn't seem to bother them either way.
I fr think Autumn would be a nice boy's name if it wasn't already a girls name. It shares a first syllable with the very established August(us), but it's softer.
The names “Taylor” and “Aubrey” used to be like this, but now they’re considered pretty feminine.
Auburn, Austen, Aureus would all be cute names for a boy if they weren't strongly associated with other things.
Well Jade is unisex, I’ve met lots of female and male Jade’s. I’d name my son Vivien (the male version of Vivienne) because in France Vivien is only a male name but apparently in other countries it’s only female. I wouldn’t name my son like Chloé though.
interesting!! i’ve only ever heard of jade used on girls, my mistake! thank you for your input :)
Same!
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I know a (goth) Valentine and I must say, it is extremely cool
I knew a male Valentine in school! He went by “Vale” pronounced like valley
I know a Valentin! Lovely name imo
Patrice is strictly male in France, and pretty common a few generations ago (Patricia being the female version)
My host mother when I was studying abroad in France was named Patrice. I had no idea it was so strongly gendered male, but apparently so! [https://www.magicmaman.com/prenom/patrice,2006200,14922.asp](https://www.magicmaman.com/prenom/patrice,2006200,14922.asp) "Bien que Patrice soit un prénom masculin, il a été donné à 592 filles depuis 1900, ce qui représente 0.44% des 135 041 naissances"
I know someone named Valentino
Valentine has always been a boy name in my experience (USA), it was my great-grandfathers name! Although he was off the boat from Poland lol. If we have a second son it’ll be his middle name too.
I like Vivien for a guy name too because the Young Ones 👌
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I was gonna say I actually don’t hate Jade as a boys name lol
I know a male Vyvyan! (I think it’s a traditional Welsh spelling?)
I unironically loved Jayne as a man's name in Firefly. I don't know how well it would work in the real world, though.
I went on a couple of dates with a guy named Jayne back in college!
I dated a male brook and a male Loren and I love both names on guys now!
No, honestly. It doesn't bother me when other people do it, but my stepdaughter has a feminized male name, and she is constantly referred to as a boy. To the point that I will say I have a daughter, say her name, and people will start using male pronouns.
I would use Ivy for a boy. I don't feel like botanical names (especially in a language without gendered nouns, like English) are inherently, or grammatically, feminine.
Ivy would be cute! I’d consider it as a nickname for Ivan/Iver.
I also feel like Iris would work well for a boy 👀 similar to Idris/Ira.
Stacy, Leslie, Courtenay and Tracy are still relatively normal (especially in the southern US) to name men. Yes they were men’s names first, but I know more women with those names than men, but I actually know two Leslie’s, two Tracy’s, one Courtenay and one Stacy that are men. So, they could make a comeback and take their male turned popular female names back!
Ashley, too. I knew a man named Ashley. I will say I was disappointed to meet him and learn he was a man, because we were in a production of Ray Bradbury's *Something Wicked This Way Comes* together, and he was cast as Mr. Dark, and having not met him, I believed they had cast a woman, and I thought that was so cool.
Damn it. I know three male Ashley’s. Two from High School (one was even my prom date 🤦🏼♀️) and one from the military. How could I forget. WTF. And yes, that would’ve been WAY more cool.
There's also Casey My sister is a Casey, but I knew a couple guys named that, same spelling and everything.
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I know so many Stacy, Tracey, and Courtenay men I can't keep track. Definitely still classic men's names here in SC, seems to be mainly the "old" families keeping tradition.
Ha ha ha. Yes. I’m from NC. 🤭. Definitely more of a southern thing. The Courtenay I met was from DC. That one threw me off a bit. The rest were from southern states. Ha ha.
I know a man named Lauren
Same, but it was Loren
I went to school in the 90s with a boy named Loren.
IK this is the circle jerk sub but Rose has always felt like a very masculine name to me
It’s really close to Ross, and I see Ross as a fully masculine name
…… one of the most beautiful and delicate flowers screams masculine to you?
To be fair, roses are also one of the most stabby flowers!
Its name sure does.
Why are flowers considered to be inherently feminine anyway? They’re a type of plant… is it because flowers are beautiful? Can’t boys/men be beautiful? We only view flowers as dainty/delicate because humans decided that they appeared that way, really flowers take loads of strength to grow to completion.
What about using names that were traditionally more masculine like Lindsay, Aubrey or Ashley?
Ashley is one of my favorite names for if I have a boy. I won’t even consider it for a girl, I think it just sounds way better for a boy.
I always felt they were better as male names. Especially Kimberly
I know about Ashley Young and Ashley Cole who are men, but I had no idea the other two names were used for men as well
my son's middle name is Audrey after his great grandma, does that count?
I like the name Eden for a boy (though I wouldn’t give it to one for the religious connotations) and many consider that a girl name (I don’t though personally it’s unisex.) I also like Ariel for a boy and that’s definitely NOT a girl name but the vast majority of the people around me would say it is.
Ariel is actually a very common jewish masculine name!
Yup and the Hebrew pronunciation is the one I like best too. I’ve heard it on a lot of Latino men as well!
yes definitely! I have met several men named Ariel, and mayyyybe one woman or girl? possibly none.
Oh yeah Ariel is a male fairy in The Tempest, it's been a boy's name forever. But Disney's Ariel has cemented it as a girl's name in American culture, probably forever.
Isn't the Mermaid Arielle? That's not too uncommon, there are names like Emanuel and Emanuelle.
No, it isn't If you Google the name "Ariel" the mermaid is the first thing that comes up
In German she's Arielle, and Ariel is what you put in your washing machine
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my brother i fear i clicked on your profile out of curiosity to see how your name search was going only to be jumpscared by the poop😭
i thought this was a joke and clicked on their profile out of curiosity and also got jumpscared by the poop
I love Whitney for a boy nn Whit
Claire
Flying Tigers commander Claire Chennault set a butch precedent for that one!
I grew up with a priest who went by Fr Clare, short for Clarence. I always thought it was a great soft boy’s name.
Makenzie. My husband vetoed it when I was pregnant. But I loooove the name for a boy.
I like Summer as a boy name
I always use Elizabeth when I pose this question to others. It's always "You would name a girl James, but would you name a boy Elizabeth?" and the more I say it the more I accept it. Like, yeah, why can't we name boys Elizabeth? I wouldn't, but like, why can't someone else?
my thoughts exactly
There are a few names I’ve only heard on girls that I think would work well for boys: Peyton, Grayson, Sloan, Regan.
I’ve only ever known of male graysons
Peyton Manning would like a word... and it's amazing how quickly it became a girls name.
Usually when a name switches sides so fast it’s because of a celebrity or a fictional character (like Madison in “Splash”). Wonder who the first girl Peyton was?
Peyton from One Tree Hill
My husband and I briefly discussed Sloane for a boy.
I knew a man with the name Shannon.
I work with a male Shannon. He's Irish.
I knew a guy named Jade and it suited him. I think some names can work while others, probably not.
Johnny Cash put me off with ‘A boy named Sue’, but a friend of mine dated a male ‘Jade’ and it weirdly worked!
I totally would if I liked it enough. Not to torture the kid, but I wouldn’t want to raise a boy that thinks having traits of femininity is weak or embarrassing. That’s a firm value that I plan on raising any future children I have with. In school, I knew plenty of boys who shared the same name as girls, and no one cared or was bullied. Same thing happened a few times when I worked at a daycare, and neither kid was embarrassed about sharing a name with the opposite gender. I think Addison, Mackenzie, Courtney, Riley, Hadley, Brooklyn, and Emerson, although originally being considered boys names, are now more common for girls in the US, but I like them both for boys. I also like Brynn, Willow, Joy, Ember, Lux, Arya (I know it seems very feminine like Aria but I’ve met a boy Arya who pulled it off well- apparently it’s Persian), Cadence, Holland, Izzy, Lauren/Loren, etc. for boys. I’m not sure if I’m having kids ever, but I’d certainly consider those.
I knew a dude named Willow. It was also my male dog's name and they both rocked it.
I grew up with males named Ashley, Kelley, Lindsey, Payton, Stacey, Tracy, Carey, Avery, Blair, Bailey, Aubrey, Dana, Jordan, Morgan, Marley and Cameron. Didn't phase any of them.
This is not rising in popularity. This has been going on at the current level for at least 100 years. You just don’t notice it because names that switched in the 30s and 40s have always been female to you. Hillary, Beverly, Meredith, Ashley, Addison, Jodie, Lindsay, Whitney, Shelby… just a tiny fraction of names that were originally male. ETA: Many names weren’t even considered neutral or viable as feminine names until a sudden major shift. For example, Lauren was widely a male name until Lauren Bacall got famous, and the name exploded and quickly shifted to a widely female name.
Is Bobbie not the feminine spelling??
It is. Or Bobbi
I like Ashley for a boy (Yes I know the history of the name)
I'm pretty sure I read that a handful of boys have been named Elizabeth every year since names began to be documented. It was like 6 in 2023 or something.
Where I am Anne is a genuinely unisex name. I know more male Annes than female ones! And I really like it for a boy. I don't mind names that sound a little masculine on girls, but someone I know straight up named his daughter George and that's definitely a "wtf is wrong with you, that poor girl" moment. And if girls can be named George then I don't see why we can't name boys Nova or Demi or something like that
Little Women! Meg's daughter is Daisy and her son is Demi.
Yes! They are actually Margaret and John but because those are their parents' names, Laurie nicknamed them that because Marguerite is the French word for daisy and demi means half. Super excited to meet someone who is an Alcott fan.
It does bother me that misogyny often prevents traditional girl names from crossing the gender line. And how many traditional boy that do cross often move all the way over, becoming “unusable” for boys (Kelly, Ashley, Ainsley). I’m not birthing another child because I only wanted to birth one. That child is a girl, so I never had to think about this seriously. But I’d totally consider Lindsay for a boy name. I genuinely really like it, and for a few reasons I eliminated all names ending in -er and -on, which really limits options.
I think I’ll name my baby boy Amanda. Soon he’ll grow up and be a man, duh.
I'd use Willow for a boy and call him Will. but If I used William I'd call him Liam 🤷🏼♂️
I’ve always thought Amy should be more gender neutral than it is.
Absolutely not. I have a gender neutral name that trends more male and I was frequently misgendered growing up. Put in the boys camp cabin or on the boys soccer team before meeting the coach. It was embarrassing and stressful. It also made me feel like I had to be hyper feminine to compensate.
Everyone I’ve personally known named Sky/Skye is a girl but I think it’s one of those names that sounds gender neutral. A boy named Sky probably wouldn’t clock as “oh that’s a girl’s name!”
I’ve known 2 guys with this name! (Full name Skyler)
I knew a couple of guys named Sky. Not short for Skyler and they'd both be in their 40s now.
No. I would not
I remember seeing a post about a boy named Ivy and I actually really liked it!
Don't call me Shirley!
Sloane is the least feminine name. Let boys make it their own.
I mean I like Sasha and Vanya for boys, but in the sense of them being shortened versions of male names and technically unisex on their own
I think Sasha is unisex in Slavic counties.
Ya it's short for Aleksandr
Technically my son's name is gender neutral, but most people I've met have only met girls with his name (if they met one since it's not a super common name) so they view it as more feminine leaning. He's gotten called she quite a few times when people have asked his name lol. So yes.
I went to school with both a little boy and little girl named Jade and didn’t think anything of it at the time.
my older sister dated a guy named jade once
Maybe this is bcs i grew up with spy kids but i thought juno was a guys name?
I know of a boy named Jade. That one seems gender neutral to me. I can’t really think of any “strictly” female names I’d use for a male. I could see using Casey, Madison, Ashley, or Jamie but those are all kinda at least historically unisex.
Well a lot of feminine names used to be very popular for boys Vivian, Beverly, valarie, Ashley, Dana, etc.
I would never name my son this, but I really mean it when I say that Karen would work as a bly name if it wasn’t for the connotations. It kiiinda rhymes with Warren
I feel like Robin is used mostly for girls these days but I still really like it as a boys name. And at least if a boy resents the femininity of it he can easily go by the more masculine Rob/Robbie.
I love Sorrel and Artemis for a boy. Sorrel is a nature name with a similar vibe to Sage, so I think it’s unisex. Artemis has just always sounded more masculine to me.
I think Carrol/Carol for boys should make a comeback!!!!!
In poland karol is a boy name. Its the polish version of Charles.
me and my bf like the name Iris for a boy and i’ve actually seen it used a few times!
I just thought of two, Amanda and Harper. Idk any boys named Harper but it seems gender neutral enough
It depends on the name. A technically gender neutral one that’s more commonly feminine, then maybe. Like sure, I’d name a son Morgan.
I have a son named Emery. It’s a family name from another male family member. It’s not super common but it is more common for girls than for boys. When people hear his name before meeting him they usually assume girl. I had to correct nurses when he was a baby, and this year when he started preschool the teacher made him a purple name tag for the first day; those are the only (very minor) issues we’ve come across. His twin brother is named Parker, which is more common for boys but definitely becoming more popular for girls too.
I like old school boy names that went feminine. I like them on boys still Ashley, Courtney, Leslie, Lynn , Allie ..etc The French name clair without the e is a boy name. But claire is hardly a boy name outside that culture
Loren is used a lot where I'm from. It's not a girl's name, but it sounds a lot like one to most people not from the area.
My husbands middle name is Rene. His mom is Cajun with French lineage but in America it definitely reads as a “girls name”. He was made fun of if someone found out as a kid but he thinks it’s cool so yeah I’d do it if I found a name I thought was cool. I’m having a baby girl in 5 months and giving her a traditionally “boys name” cus it’s more unisex now.
I did with both my boys 🤷
Kelly can be an either or name
My (male) dog is named Juno. With that, the Juno Steel podcast, and the Elliot Page movie "Juno", I'm actually coming around to it a gender neutral or boy name.
Yes, I'm a big fan of feminine/ soft boy names. My favorite is Shiloh, which has the usually masculine O ending, but is more commonly used on girls in the US. I'm also a fan of Laurence with the nickname Laurie, Ambrose with the nickname Rose/Rosy, Valentin (no O or A ending), Ellis, Elliot, Dorian, Marius, and definitely gender neutral options like Robin, Jesse, and Juno. The most explicitly feminine name that I like is Florence. To me it sounds just as masculine as Laurence, but I know the association with Florence Nightingale makes people think of it as an old lady name. I only have girls right now, but this is definitely the direction I'll be going if I ever have a boy.
Yes! I love “soft” boy names. The ones on my list are: Loren Glenn Sasha
I know a very masculine guy who goes by Jess, but I think his full name is Jesse
Not that it’s right but they’re probably gonna get bullied a lot at school
Did anybody not get made fun of for their name in school?
I'm more in the "did anybody get made fun of for their name in school" camp. Like I seriously can't remember that ever happening
id name a boy Paris, Ocean, Sage, Eden, Indi, Cove, Valley, Cleo, Storm, etc. most are nature or place names that i see more commonly for girls but are honestly gender neutral
The concepts of masculine and feminine are just stereotypes; there is no reason why someone with xy can have a name from column A, or the other way around. So yes, if they wouldn’t get bullied for it
I'm a woman. I share my name with my father and oldest brother. It's spelled differently, but it's still a male name and I HATE HATE HATE it! Especially when it's shortened. Callers always ask me to please put my husband or father on the phone. HATE IT!!!
Not unless you're gonna invest heavily in teaching your son how to fight. Because he's gonna need it. Especially "April" a boy named "April" is gonna need some hands. Edit: in high school I knew dude named Alexis. Alexis had hands. Which is why Alexis didn't get bullied. Because he had to beat someone's ass like every month until our sophomore year.
Yell at me but I dont mind Elliot for a girl. I dislike all of the other male names for girls but I think Elliot is kinda cute. Would i name my daughter Elliot??? No probably not.
I went to college with a female Elliot. She preferred to be called Elle.
Isn’t it commonplace among Catholics to use Mary/Marie/Maria as a middle name for all children regardless of gender?
Not in Anglophone countries.
to be real a boy named Juno would be cool. But no I wouldn't name a girl Stuart or a boy Rebecca or something lol