Inspired by looking at the Baby Names board last night. I don't get the obsession with the name Alice. It's awful for a little girl and doesn't fit anyone under 50. There are a lot of great older names coming back in popularity but Alice isn't one of them. Keep it in the 50s.
Inspired by looking at the Baby Names board last night. I don't get the obsession with the name Alice. It's awful for a little girl and doesn't fit anyone under 50. There are a lot of great older names coming back in popularity but Alice isn't one of them. Keep it in the 50s.
I actually kinda like Alice. I can see it being cute on a little girl. It wouldn't be a contender for us though because MH would hate it.
Post by numbersgirl08 on Aug 20, 2015 8:03:17 GMT -5
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It's been awhile since I've read the baby names board but I recall them feeling very strongly about girls stealing boys names. It was bad when a traditional male name was used for a female
I don't get the hate, especially if we're supposed to be opening up to not accepting gender norms and letting kids be who they are. Why does a name have to be inherently "girl" or "boy"? What is wrong with taking a more traditional male name and using it for a girl (or vice versa)? The name doesn't define the kid, the kid typically makes the name what it is.
Inspired by looking at the Baby Names board last night. I don't get the obsession with the name Alice. It's awful for a little girl and doesn't fit anyone under 50. There are a lot of great older names coming back in popularity but Alice isn't one of them. Keep it in the 50s.
I know an Alice my age; she always went by Allie and it fit her very well.
It's been awhile since I've read the baby names board but I recall them feeling very strongly about girls stealing boys names. It was bad when a traditional male name was used for a female
I don't get the hate, especially if we're supposed to be opening up to not accepting gender norms and letting kids be who they are. Why does a name have to be inherently "girl" or "boy"? What is wrong with taking a more traditional male name and using it for a girl (or vice versa)? The name doesn't define the kid, the kid typically makes the name what it is.
I've always loved boys names for girls. I remember watching the show Sisters and thinking their names were so cool. (I think they may have had girls names with boy nicknames but i loved the nicknames)
It's been awhile since I've read the baby names board but I recall them feeling very strongly about girls stealing boys names. It was bad when a traditional male name was used for a female
I don't get the hate, especially if we're supposed to be opening up to not accepting gender norms and letting kids be who they are. Why does a name have to be inherently "girl" or "boy"? What is wrong with taking a more traditional male name and using it for a girl (or vice versa)? The name doesn't define the kid, the kid typically makes the name what it is.
I think the world is moving more toward not accepting gender norms (forgive me, I would like to say that better but 4 hrs of sleep); however, parents should know that not everyone is there yet. My fb acquaintance has got to know that naming her daughter Wes.ley James.on might invite those who do not see her in person to assume she's a male. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with naming a kid anything you like, but a parent might want to think about that. Shoot! By the time that little girl is in elementary school, it may not matter one bit! The more people are gender-blind (so to speak) then naming children will evolve and change and hopefully this will be a silly argument in our lifetimes.
Does that make any sense? I really shouldn't wade into these discussions with so little sleep.
Inspired by looking at the Baby Names board last night. I don't get the obsession with the name Alice. It's awful for a little girl and doesn't fit anyone under 50. There are a lot of great older names coming back in popularity but Alice isn't one of them. Keep it in the 50s.
I love how the response you got to feeling it felt old was mentioning the Alice from the book everyone knows... from the 1860's!
I could do a whole thread of what I find unpopular about the baby names board. Everything is extremely traditional... unless you get into their personal favourites and you are left scratching your head as to why they would think a name like Tadhg is somehow a more reasonable choice than Ryder on today's playground. Even the so-called traditionalists are always trying to up the ante on originality.
Inspired by looking at the Baby Names board last night. I don't get the obsession with the name Alice. It's awful for a little girl and doesn't fit anyone under 50. There are a lot of great older names coming back in popularity but Alice isn't one of them. Keep it in the 50s.
I know an Alice my age; she always went by Allie and it fit her very well.
I love Allison and Allie. Super cute names and they age very well.
My only reservation about choosing Alice or any A name is that DNiece has an A name, so for my ILs grandchildren I kinda want to make them all have different first initials....
Inspired by looking at the Baby Names board last night. I don't get the obsession with the name Alice. It's awful for a little girl and doesn't fit anyone under 50. There are a lot of great older names coming back in popularity but Alice isn't one of them. Keep it in the 50s.
I love how the response you got to feeling it felt old was mentioning the Alice from the book everyone knows... from the 1860's!
I could do a whole thread of what I find unpopular about the baby names board. Everything is extremely traditional... unless you get into their personal favourites and you are left scratching your head as to why they would think a name like Tadhg is somehow a more reasonable choice than Ryder on today's playground. Even the so-called traditionalists are always trying to up the ante on originality.
That board is so strange. I feel like they are obsessed with certain names for no apparent reason. I don't really hate the name Alice, I know several (older) ladies with that name and I have good associations with it, but I just got turned off of it after reading that board and seeing them push it so much!
It's been awhile since I've read the baby names board but I recall them feeling very strongly about girls stealing boys names. It was bad when a traditional male name was used for a female
I don't get the hate, especially if we're supposed to be opening up to not accepting gender norms and letting kids be who they are. Why does a name have to be inherently "girl" or "boy"? What is wrong with taking a more traditional male name and using it for a girl (or vice versa)? The name doesn't define the kid, the kid typically makes the name what it is.
I think the world is moving more toward not accepting gender norms (forgive me, I would like to say that better but 4 hrs of sleep); however, parents should know that not everyone is there yet. My fb acquaintance has got to know that naming her daughter Wes.ley James.on might invite those who do not see her in person to assume she's a male. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with naming a kid anything you like, but a parent might want to think about that. Shoot! By the time that little girl is in elementary school, it may not matter one bit! The more people are gender-blind (so to speak) then naming children will evolve and change and hopefully this will be a silly argument in our lifetimes.
Does that make any sense? I really shouldn't wade into these discussions with so little sleep.
I agree that it should be considered. I guess I'm thinking more of names like Ryan that have become more gender neutral but the board would get up in arms about how traditionally male names should NOT be used for a girl. Also, let's be honest, I can't blame parents who want to name their daughter a name that could be a male, given that we still have far to come in equality. There was just a story last week about an author who sent the exact same draft out to the same number of publishers under a traditionally male and female name. She got over 5x the positive responses when she submitted under the male name than under the female name. That sucks.
And someone who does name their daughter Wes.ley James should definitely not be complaining if she is mistaken for a boy sometimes!
The baby names board also seems to conveniently forget that so many "traditional" girls' names were actually masculine. Like Ashley, Evelyn, Kelly, Cary, etc.
I HATE the way those women bash the crap out of posters based on names. And the "sib set" thing. Ugh.
When I taught history we spent time talking about our government and the kids were so surprised that Lindsay Graham is a man. I always got tons of giggles but then I told them how many girl names used to be for boys.
Ive mentioned before that i love the name Alex for a girl. Id probably name her Alexandra but call her Alex. However, I have totally toyed with the idea of naming a girl Alexander. I think it would fit a girl.
I think it's the teacher in me since I get 120 new students every year with all kinds of names, but I like names that people can spell and pronounce correctly without being told. And knowing if it's a boy or girl is nice too.
I think it's the teacher in me since I get 120 new students every year with all kinds of names, but I like names that people can spell and pronounce correctly without being told. And knowing if it's a boy or girl is nice too.
I'm a hypocrite, because my kids' names do match pretty well, but I think too much stress is put on the whole "sibset" thing. The name needs to match the kid first and the siblings second.
I think it's the teacher in me since I get 120 new students every year with all kinds of names, but I like names that people can spell and pronounce correctly without being told. And knowing if it's a boy or girl is nice too.
With our last name, DH and I wanted to make things easy on DS and his teachers. The only thing he'll need to do is tell them the nickname we call him. Also very normal
I'm a hypocrite, because my kids' names do match pretty well, but I think too much stress is put on the whole "sibset" thing. The name needs to match the kid first and the siblings second.
Agreed. There obviously can be names that are too similar. I love the name Oliver, but would never use it because that would be a ridiculous sib set. But they don't have to "match" or go together.
My coworker has a son named Addison. He's 27 or 28. It's hard for me to think of that as a boy name but I guess in the late 80s it wasn't a popular girl name like it is now.
My coworker has a son named Addison. He's 27 or 28. It's hard for me to think of that as a boy name but I guess in the late 80s it wasn't a popular girl name like it is now.
My teacher in HS had a son named Addison. He's probably 25 now. He always joked that it was his 6th kid and he was just "adding one more son".
Post by mommycoffee on Aug 20, 2015 12:36:18 GMT -5
As name is gender neutral, used more for boys I think. I'm pretty sure Hs fam thinks I was trying to go against the norm with her name but in reality H named her. Cs name is a classic, old school name and I adore it and it fits her so so well.
As far as sib set naming goes I think its more important for them not to sound to similar than it is trying to make them a set. For instance, i like the name Nathan. I would never use it if i had another boy for (i think) obvious reasons.
FFTC i dont even know why i am discussing baby names. I honestly dont think #2 will be happening for us. Thinking about baby names i will probably never use just makes things ten times harder.
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