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!
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
Post by cabbagecabbage on Nov 19, 2016 9:20:15 GMT -5
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.
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!
Post by helenahhandbasket on Nov 20, 2016 17:28:43 GMT -5
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.
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.
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