Does Parker work for a girl?

[babys2015]

I'm thinking no, but H likes it..

Back story: we have twin boys who are Ril.ey Tho.mas and Conn.or Re.id (why the periods, I don't know but that's what y'all do)..

Our third is due in May, we don't yet know the sex. We like Par.ker Br.yan for a boy and H also likes Par.ker for a girl but I'm thinking it's firmly a boy name..yeah?

I don't want everyone assuming I have 3 boys if in fact this bun is a girl..

Suggestions for a girl name that's fits in our sib set? Thanks!

[seamonster]

Parker is definitely a boy name only.

Suggestions for girl:
Maeve
Valerie
Hannah
Olivia
Grace
Ava
Eva

[Deleted]

Boy name. No ifs ands or buts.

Girl suggestions:

Victoria
Elizabeth
Diana
Catherine
Rose
Vanessa
Julia
Rebecca

[cosmicav]

Parker is a boy name 100%. And people put the periods in their kids' names so that they cannot be googled.

Some other girl name ideas:

Mara
Judith
Valerie
Molly
Ruth
Stella

[ottertails]

Using the SSA's popularity list for 2015, Parker is ranked #72 for boys and #227 for girls. Link here if you want to see for yourself (popular names by birth year and top 500); the site was being a little glitchy for me with error messages but hopefully it works correctly if you try it.

When it comes to popularity with variant spellings included (2015 births only):
For boys, Parker had 5383 births and ranked #84
For girls, Parker had 1439 births, Parkyr had 6 and ranked #259

Ideas for a girl:
Juniper/Juno
Myra
Elise
Orla
Isla
Lydia
Deirdre
Cecilia/Cecily
Giselle
Thais
Aurora
Mavis
Phoebe
Linnea
Heidi
Gemma
Maren
Calista
Olwen
Maxine
Eleanor
Leona
Cerys
Elowen
Nina
Anouk
Oriana
Moira
Rhea
Margot/Margo
Greta
Lyra
Bridget
Theia/Thea

[cabbagecabbage]

Especially because you've used Riley, a lovely and masculine name that is sometimes used for girls, you should not use a boy's name that is so strongly a boys name for a daughter. It would be very confusing.

[joy]

Ugh, Parker is a boy's name.

EDIT: Honestly, if you said your kids were Riley, Connor and Parker, I'd think you had three boys.  Tell your husband that your daughter deserves a strong name and that doesn't mean it should be male one!  There's some good suggestions in this thread.  I like your older boy names very much!

[dreadpiratebuttercup]

Definitely all boy.

[macchiatto]

I like your sons' names! (I also have twin boys, btw.) I agree with pp's that Parker is all boy.
What styles/vibes do you like for girl names?

[Deleted]

Parker is all boy. What other options do you have for a girl?

[helenahhandbasket]

Parker to me is neither a boy or a girl name. It's a surname. Surnames feel genderless to me.

BUT, it's not very feminine sounding, and I personally wouldn't use it for a girl.

Some posters use periods in their kids names to make it harder to google search those names (and ultimately "find" you or a thread in which you are discussing a friend's kid's names.)

So it's a privacy measure, but if a poster responds and doesn't add periods in their response, that response will come up in a Google search, so IMO the periods are futile unless you ask responders not to mention the names in the responses.

[Widget123]

No to a female Parker. And IMO you could do so much better than naming a potential son Parker as well.

[babys2015]

Nov 20, 2016 9:13:32 GMT -5 @twoscoops said:

Parker is all boy. What other options do you have for a girl?

No options..we don't love any girl names thus far..

[babys2015]

Nov 21, 2016 7:47:57 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

No to a female Parker. And IMO you could do so much better than naming a potential son Parker as well.

Boy suggestions?

[babys2015]

Nov 19, 2016 9:20:15 GMT -5 cabbagecabbage said:

Especially because you've used Riley, a lovely and masculine name that is sometimes used for girls, you should not use a boy's name that is so strongly a boys name for a daughter. It would be very confusing.

100% agree with this.

[Widget123]

Nov 21, 2016 21:26:39 GMT -5 babys2015 said:

Nov 21, 2016 7:47:57 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

No to a female Parker. And IMO you could do so much better than naming a potential son Parker as well.

Boy suggestions?

Going off your first two sons' names

Declan

Keegan

Nolan

Owen

Ronan

Sean