100% boy

Most of my favorite names for boys ([name_m]Grayson[/name_m], [name_u]Emmett[/name_u], [name_u]Elliott[/name_u], [name_u]Everett[/name_u], [name_u]Sawyer[/name_u], [name_u]River[/name_u], [name_u]Emerson[/name_u], and [name_u]Rowan[/name_u]) seem to fall somewhere in girl territory. Did the going-girl status ever sway you away from a name you liked? And just curious if anyone can suggest similar names that are 100% boy!

[name_f]May[/name_f] we all raise sons whose masculinity isn’t threatened by the possibility of sharing their name with a girl.

Honestly all the names you listed are 100% masculine to me.

No, having parents use boy’s names on girls (or more masculine sounding names) has not/will not sway me away from those names. I will choose names that are special to me and that I feel a strong attachment to. For example, I adore [name_u]Addison[/name_u], only on a boy/man, I have it on my list and it doesn’t bother me at all that some girls have the name. Actually I have only known one person with the name, a boy that was on my son’s baseball team.

I have asked my son and his friends about this. They all said it would not bother them. They felt that if anyone should feel uncomfortable/bothered, it should be the girl wearing a boy’s name, but felt that it wasn’t a big deal either way.

I knew two male Kellys and one male [name_u]Ashley[/name_u] growing up. No one made fun of them or told them they had girls names. And there were a lot of female Ashleys and a couple Kellys.

LOL i love this.

Honestly, none of those names are overly popular for one gender over another, except for [name_u]Everett[/name_u] and [name_u]Emmett[/name_u] I think? I’ve never heard of either used on girls before.

Also, sharing a name with girls is not the end of the world - just ask the dozens of male Taylors and Mackenzies I grew up with.

And, there’s no such thing as a 100% boy name - back in the 1980s, classics like [name_m]Matthew[/name_m], [name_u]Michael[/name_u], [name_m]David[/name_m], [name_m]Robert[/name_m], [name_m]Christopher[/name_m], [name_m]John[/name_m] and [name_u]James[/name_u] ranked in the top 1000 ([name_m]Matthew[/name_m] ranking as high as the top 300) at some point for girls. That didn’t stop mothers from making [name_u]Michael[/name_u] the #1 boys name throughout the 80s and 90s.

All the names you listed seem 100% boy to me! Like a PP said, I like [name_u]Addison[/name_u] on a boy.
my favourite names for a boy are [name_u]Eden[/name_u] and [name_u]Riley[/name_u], but everyone thinks they are female names.

It used to but not anymore. I don’t understand the logic that girls can have boy names but boys can’t have unisex names. [name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_u]Madison[/name_u], [name_u]Aubrey[/name_u], and [name_u]Harper[/name_u] for a boy, and I would use them if they weren’t so common, although I’d feel the same way if they were super common for boys too. It’s the popularity that bothers me, not the girls. I grew up with a boy named [name_f]McKenna[/name_f] who rocked his name, and was one of the most popular kids at my school.

Overall, I was just curious, and not at all worried about how a boy would feel about his gender because of a name. To clarify, I’m just hoping to avoid a name choice that ends up being often mistaken or needing explanation. (To this point, I also like names that are easily spelled.) I worked with a [name_u]Ryan[/name_u] and she didn’t like how people were surprised and even uncomfortable to meet her, when expecting a guy to walk in.

Thanks for the all the feedback.

I agree with all the names you listed as being perfectly masculine to me. Except [name_u]Rowan[/name_u] and [name_u]Emerson[/name_u] – I don’t mind those on girls, though they are not my style.

[name_u]James[/name_u], [name_u]Ryan[/name_u], [name_u]Dylan[/name_u], [name_u]Cameron[/name_u], [name_u]Devon[/name_u], [name_m]Lincoln[/name_m], [name_u]Finley[/name_u]/[name_u]Finn[/name_u], [name_u]Quinn[/name_u], [name_u]Logan[/name_u], [name_u]Hunter[/name_u], [name_u]Parker[/name_u], [name_u]Bentley[/name_u], [name_u]Darien[/name_u], [name_m]Ezra[/name_m], [name_u]Luca[/name_u], etc. all belong to the boys, imo, and I have seen them all either worn by girls or mentioned as possibilities for a potential daughter. Personally, I just don’t like those names on girls. But, of course, that’s just me. :slight_smile:

To me, all the names you mention are male.

If I favored one of these names, I wouldn’t hesitate to use it for a boy.

To me, almost all of the names that some consider unisex are not. [name_m]John[/name_m] is a boy and [name_f]Susan[/name_f] is a girl in my world.

[name_u]Leslie[/name_u]

[name_m]Amen[/name_m].

My son is named [name_u]Sage[/name_u].
Another boy we know is named [name_u]Eden[/name_u].
[name_m]Grayson[/name_m] and [name_u]Emmett[/name_u] are boys names to me from your list. But you can’t control what other people will do with a name, so there’s nothing 100% anything out there. I would have said that [name_u]James[/name_u] is 100% boy to me, but check out how many celebrity girls were named [name_u]James[/name_u] in the last few years!

My advice would be, go with what you love. Fear-based naming isn’t going to make anyone happy. :slightly_smiling_face:

Honestly for me names I like on both genders which gender it leans towards depends on a combo. Eg. If I find a combo for a girl the name will be on my girls list but if I find a better one for a boy itll be on the boy list.

Preach!!

And honestly, I think all these names are perfectly handsome and fine on boys. Being unisex doesn’t make them un-masculine.

Girls are icky, wouldn’t want to burden a boy with anything girly. If there’s even a trace of femininity about my favourite boy name I’d absolutely never use it.

I don’t think there’s a problem.
Some of my favorites for boys are more feminine than, say, [name_u]Sawyer[/name_u] and [name_u]Everett[/name_u]. You’re not going to meet hardly as many boys named [name_u]Harper[/name_u], [name_u]Avery[/name_u], and [name_u]Cheyenne[/name_u] as you will girls with those names, but I like them anyway.

I wouldn’t use a boy name that was equally shared with girls. Most of yours don’t. Similar names:

[name_m]Griffin[/name_m]
[name_m]Shepherd[/name_m]
[name_m]Julian[/name_m]
[name_m]Tobias[/name_m]

I would never deprive myself from giving a masculine name I love because other people use it wrong. I think we must give these names to our little boys, they are 100% masculine names and gorgeous… I would do it, and I would defend my choice.
However, I can understand it bothers you. I guess if some people accept threads about masculine names on girls, we can accept that some people don’t want their son to share a name with girls :wink:

Let me try names that are almost not given to girls:
[name_m]Carl[/name_m]
[name_m]Christian[/name_m]
[name_m]Ernest[/name_m]
[name_m]Alfred[/name_m]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_m]Garrett[/name_m]
[name_m]Rhett[/name_m]
[name_m]Jared[/name_m]
[name_m]Andreas[/name_m]
[name_m]Gordon[/name_m]
[name_m]Maverick[/name_m]
[name_m]Orion[/name_m]
[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
[name_m]Guy[/name_m]
[name_m]Tristan[/name_m]
[name_m]George[/name_m]
[name_m]Harold[/name_m]
[name_m]Gerald[/name_m]
[name_m]Denzel[/name_m]
[name_m]Beau[/name_m]
[name_m]Teague[/name_m]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_m]Patrick[/name_m]
[name_m]Thaddeus[/name_m]
[name_m]Jagger[/name_m]
[name_m]Atticus[/name_m]
[name_m]Gunnar[/name_m]
[name_m]Clayton[/name_m]

Recorded once by the SSA:
[name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m]
[name_m]Art[/name_m]
[name_m]Shepherd[/name_m]

Names that have never been recorded by the SSA for girls:
[name_m]Robinson[/name_m]
[name_m]Nils[/name_m]
[name_m]Thompson[/name_m]
[name_m]Angus[/name_m]
[name_m]Fergus[/name_m]
[name_m]Finnian[/name_m]
[name_m]Erickson[/name_m]
Alberic
[name_m]Rodrigue[/name_m]
[name_m]Caspar[/name_m]
Arcadius
[name_m]Sven[/name_m]
[name_m]Cyrus[/name_m]
[name_m]Sirius[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucius[/name_m]
[name_m]Wolfgang[/name_m]
[name_m]Oak[/name_m]
[name_m]Hawk[/name_m]
Marriott
[name_m]Job[/name_m]
[name_m]Joachim[/name_m]
[name_m]Vadim[/name_m]
[name_m]Ephrem[/name_m]
[name_m]Wolf[/name_m]
[name_m]Ajax[/name_m]
[name_m]Sadik[/name_m]
[name_m]Maxen[/name_m]
[name_m]Arsen[/name_m]/Arsene
[name_m]Isidore[/name_m]
[name_m]Hawthorn[/name_m]
[name_m]Bear[/name_m]
[name_m]Cosmo[/name_m]
[name_m]Oslo[/name_m]
[name_m]Orso[/name_m]
[name_m]Orson[/name_m]
[name_m]Eliezer[/name_m]
[name_m]Eleazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Hermes[/name_m]
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
Baltus
Timeus
[name_m]Artus[/name_m]
[name_m]Priam[/name_m]

Also, some of the names you are considered are not really popular for girls:
[name_u]Elliott[/name_u] - 16% More masculine
[name_u]Emerson[/name_u] - 66% More feminine
[name_m]Grayson[/name_m] - 2% More masculine
[name_u]Emmett[/name_u] - 4% More masculine
[name_u]Everett[/name_u] - 1,5% More masculine
[name_u]River[/name_u] - 37%. Tend to be more “unisex” regarding to the stats.
[name_u]Sawyer[/name_u] - 28% More masculine
[name_u]Rowan[/name_u] - 46%. Tend to be more “unisex” regarding to the stats.
I don’t even understand why they are all orange ^^

Boy-o, you’re sure getting a hard time on this thread, haha! I think it’s a fair question:

100% B-O-Y:

[name_m]Abraham[/name_m]
[name_m]Adam[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
[name_m]Andrew[/name_m]
[name_m]Benjamin[/name_m]
[name_m]Brandon[/name_m]
[name_m]Brian[/name_m]
[name_m]Brody[/name_m]
[name_m]Caleb[/name_m]
[name_m]Calisto[/name_m]/[name_m]Calixto[/name_m]
[name_m]Calvin[/name_m]
[name_m]Carlos[/name_m]
[name_m]Charles[/name_m] (not [name_u]Charlie[/name_u], though)
[name_m]Christopher[/name_m]
[name_m]Connor[/name_m]
[name_m]Clark[/name_m]
[name_m]David[/name_m]
[name_m]Davis[/name_m]
[name_m]Derek[/name_m]
[name_m]Dex[/name_m]
[name_m]Drake[/name_m]
[name_m]Duke[/name_m]
[name_m]Edward[/name_m]
[name_m]Egbert[/name_m]
[name_m]Elijah[/name_m]
[name_m]Emil[/name_m]
[name_m]Eric[/name_m]
[name_m]Ezra[/name_m]
[name_m]Forrest[/name_m]
[name_m]Garrett[/name_m]
[name_m]George[/name_m]
[name_m]Hector[/name_m]
[name_m]Henry[/name_m]
[name_m]Hersch[/name_m]
[name_m]Hugo[/name_m]
[name_m]Hugh[/name_m]
[name_m]Ian[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaac[/name_m]
[name_m]Isaiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Ivan[/name_m]
[name_m]Jack[/name_m]
[name_m]Jacob[/name_m]/[name_m]Jake[/name_m]
[name_m]Jeffrey[/name_m]/[name_m]Jeff[/name_m]
[name_m]Jesus[/name_m] (hey-zus)
[name_m]John[/name_m]
[name_m]Jonah[/name_m]
[name_m]Joseph[/name_m]
[name_m]Joshua[/name_m]
[name_m]Josiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Kenneth[/name_m]
[name_m]Kent[/name_m]
[name_m]Kevin[/name_m]
[name_m]Liam[/name_m]
[name_m]Luke[/name_m]
[name_m]Mark[/name_m]
[name_m]Martin[/name_m]
[name_m]Maximilian[/name_m]
[name_m]Miles[/name_m]
[name_m]Milo[/name_m]
[name_m]Nicholas[/name_m]
Oatis
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m]
[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
[name_m]Patrick[/name_m]
[name_m]Paul[/name_m]
[name_m]Peter[/name_m]/[name_m]Pete[/name_m]
[name_m]Rhett[/name_m]
[name_m]Richard[/name_m]/[name_m]Rick[/name_m]
[name_m]Robert[/name_m]/[name_m]Rob[/name_m]
[name_m]Roman[/name_m]
[name_m]Romeo[/name_m]
[name_m]Ross[/name_m]
[name_m]Samuel[/name_m]
[name_m]Sean[/name_m]
[name_m]Stephen[/name_m]/[name_m]Steven[/name_m]
[name_m]Thomas[/name_m]
[name_m]Timothy[/name_m]
[name_m]Travis[/name_m]
[name_m]Trevor[/name_m]
[name_m]Victor[/name_m]
[name_m]Vincent[/name_m]
[name_m]Wesley[/name_m]
[name_m]William[/name_m]
Wilmington
[name_m]Wyatt[/name_m]
[name_m]Xavier[/name_m]
[name_m]Zachary[/name_m]

And these are just all from memory! There are a bunch more, like [name_m]Butch[/name_m], haha!

No, I like androgynous names. And most Berries don’t so don’t be fooled by the snarky replies.

As for your names, they still lean more masculine because they aren’t overused for girls
[name_m]Grayson[/name_m], [name_u]Emmett[/name_u], [name_u]Elliott[/name_u], [name_u]Everett[/name_u], [name_u]Sawyer[/name_u], [name_u]River[/name_u], [name_u]Emerson[/name_u], and [name_u]Rowan[/name_u]

This reply does not address my question at all. Further, the writer assumes that unisex names will threaten boys’ masculinity, UNLESS we raise them correctly to overcome this threat?!

Overall, this is preachy, off-topic, and offensive. Masculinity and femininity aren’t defined by names. They are determined biologically and socially.

Bearing or giving a gendered name is more a matter of convenience. Most people prefer that their name indicates their gender. A great example is those who are transgender. Originally given a name for their biological sex, they later change it to match the gender they identify as. Therefore, their original name had no bearing on their masculinity or femininity. Instead, they choose a new name to place them in their gender category.