Opinions? Can [name]Alastair[/name]/[name]Alistair[/name] be a girls first or MN?
Sometimes I feel like there aren’t going to be any masculine names left because everybody is using them on girls. Granted [name]Alistair[/name] already has a softer sound, I would still rather see it on boys.
In one word: No.
[name]How[/name] about [name]Alice[/name], [name]Alison[/name], [name]Dara[/name], [name]Daria[/name], [name]Lisette[/name], or [name]Alessandra[/name]?
Sorry, I unfortunately don’t think so. I love it for a boy, but for a girl it just feels wrong to me.
[name]Juniper[/name] [name]Alastair[/name] is very rhymey… I have a 3/3 name and I quite like it, but it doesn’t have the singsongy sound of [name]Juniper[/name] [name]Alastair[/name].
[name]Juniper[/name] [name]Alice[/name]?
[name]Juniper[/name] [name]Ailis[/name] (“ay-lish”)
[name]Juniper[/name] [name]Estelle[/name]
[name]Juniper[/name] [name]Adare[/name]
[name]Juniper[/name] [name]Griselda[/name]
[name]Juniper[/name] [name]Lisbet[/name]
I agree with this.
While I like spunky, tomboyish names for girls quite a bit, I tend to think that co-opting traditionally male names is both unnecessary and unfair – to all involved. To the girl, who is stuck with a boy’s name whether she likes the idea or not, to the parents, who will always field questions regarding why they gave a boy’s name to a girl (did you think it was going to be a boy? did you WANT it to be a boy? is she named for someone? no?), and lastly to the dwindling cache of great male names. There are a LOT more choices for girls than for boys.
With that last point in mind, with so many choices for girls, why use a boy’s name?
Family or personal significance is the only real exception I can think of.
Of course, you’ll use whatever name you like in the end, which is as it should be. [name]Just[/name] food for thought.
Well I’m actually NOT going to use it if it makes you all feel better. LOL. In general I agree that boys names for girls is way to popular and slightly annoying. (although there are some that I like ok) But for some reason I have always thought of [name]Alistair[/name] as a feminine name. I guess I’m just weird. I love it but could never use it on a boy because it seems feminine to me. I was just wondering what everyone else thought, evidently its just me. LOL.
I do find [name]Alistair[/name] to be feminine sounding, as I said above, it has a softer sound to it. But because it has been used traditionally on men that is what makes it masculine.
Definitely, 100% no, never, ever!
I think it’s actually pretty masculine-sounding, so no. And as others have said, there are so many girls’ names to choose from, and not nearly as many boys’.
Also, the new Breaking [name]Dawn[/name] movie is coming out pretty soon; there will be a character named [name]Alistair[/name] (with a different spelling, maybe) so the name will be on the raydar. Any name in a movie that big will be on the radar, especially if it’s unique. And it will be used on a male character–thus further imprinting it in everyone’s heads as a boy’s name.
Soooo, you just wanted to start a busy thread? 
Boys’-names-on-girls is a very very common topic of conversation on these boards. I don’t even visit very frequently and I know that. The response is always exactly the same, so you could probably imagine how people would react to your question.
I actually quite like it on a girl, why not?! If [name]Sydney[/name] can sound sophisticated on a female why not [name]Alastair[/name]? I say go for it but consider placing a very feminine name in the middle by all means.
There’s Alastríona (al-as-TREE-na) which is a feminine form of [name]Alastair[/name].
I don’t like it, but worse things have happened in the world and I won’t fret on girls being given boys names when there are other more important things to fret about. I would say that if she went to the [name]Scotland[/name] area she would probably get strange looks but maybe they would get used to it?
I do like the suggestion of the feminine form of the name from the pp. I also like [name]Alice[/name], since they seem to share a common sound.
I have to agree ,it is a boys name
Well, if [name]Alison[/name] can be a girl name why can’t [name]Alistair[/name]? It sounds more feminine to me since it doesn’t include -son! I would be more likely to consider it with a traditional fn like [name]Mary[/name] personally, but [name]Juniper[/name] [name]Alistair[/name] is fine
[name]Glad[/name] you’re not actually using it for a baby. If you like the name though, I would suggest using it for a female pet. No one really cares if your dog/cat/goldfish’s name doesn’t make any sense gender wise.
Well I do like the idea of using it on a pet! I’ll probably stick to that and leave my poor baby out of it. LOL.
PS I prolly won’t be popular for this but I HATE the twilight series!!! I blame it for making my DDs name SOOOOOOOOOO popular. ([name]Isabelle[/name]) Yea I know its actually [name]Isabella[/name] thats so popular but same thing nearly! I never would’ve named her that if I had realized the association and how it would sky rocket in popularity a few months after her birth! But thats not what this thread is about… sorry!
applauds loudly It was the worst thing ever written in the history of literature… and then 50 Shades arrived…
I like the name Alaistair ON A BOY… but the similar [name]Adair[/name]… ( which is originally masculine)… I can totally see and would actually use ( if dh ever let me) On either a boy OR a girl!