[name]Avery[/name] has long been my favorite name for a boy, but I’m worried it has become too girly. I think it’s just too popular in general now for me to use, but I’m still curious what other people think - would you still name a boy [name]Avery[/name]? And would a little boy [name]Avery[/name] be in a class with 5 girl Averys?
I’d also love to hear other boy name suggestions from others who like [name]Avery[/name]. This baby is a boy and I fear he will be nameless…it was so much easier to name our daughter!
I love [name]Avery[/name] on a boy and hate it on a girl. I’ve only met 1 girl [name]Avery[/name] but I’ve met a few boy [name]Avery[/name]'s and recently discovered I had a male [name]Avery[/name] in my family tree.
Names that feel like [name]Avery[/name] to me:
[name]Riley[/name]
[name]Peyton[/name]
[name]Chase[/name]
[name]Asher[/name]
[name]Oliver[/name]
[name]Kendall[/name]
[name]Everett[/name]
[name]Griffin[/name]
[name]Phoenix[/name]
[name]Bailey[/name] (I’ve actually known more male [name]Bailey[/name]'s than female)
[name]Ridley[/name]
[name]Amos[/name]
[name]Hugo[/name]
[name]Milo[/name]
I would absolutely use [name]Avery[/name] for a boy! It’s on my top 10, potentially even my top 5. I absolutely adore it, and I think it works so well for boys still. I paired it with two clearly masculine MNs ([name]Avery[/name] [name]Ian[/name] [name]George[/name]) so he has something to fall back on should the dreaded worst happen, but I can’t imagine that it would. Despite the fact that [name]Avery[/name] is so popular for girls, it’s the most popular it’s ever been for boys (sits at number 201 on the SSA list for 2011), and it’s very much on the rise! As far as unisex names on boys go, I think [name]Avery[/name]'s a clear winner.
Then again, [name]Avery[/name] has a lot of meaning to me. Its meaning honors my sister, and it’s a very popular name in my grandfather’s ancestral line, so I feel like it honors both of them very well. And there’s this radio drama I grew up listening to (and I’m sure my children will, too, when they’re old enough to appreciate it!), and the main character’s name is [name]John[/name] [name]Avery[/name] [name]Whittaker[/name]. He’s such a great role model and such a perfect character, and I know any [name]Avery[/name] I might have would get a huge kick out of being named after him. I am guessing none of those would mean anything to you, haha, but all the layers of deep meaning to me make the name so usable and so charming and handsome. I’m not sure I’ll ever get to use [name]Avery[/name], but I absolutely hope that I do one day! My only concern is that it’s rather close to my second favorite boys’ name, [name]Everett[/name]. Still, I think it’s perfect.
I can’t really think of anything to suggest, apart from my own list, haha. The FNs I love:
I love [name]Avery[/name] for a boy. It really ticks me off that people are starting to use this for girls. It’s a boy’s name! You wouldn’t name your daughter [name]William[/name] or [name]Michael[/name] or [name]Walter[/name], so why are you naming her [name]Avery[/name]?
As to popularity, I think it’s popular on NB, but [name]IRL[/name] it’s not as common.
I live in the UK where the name is basically unknown (I think there were 7 female [name]Avery[/name]'s and 6 male [name]Avery[/name]'s born in 2010) but I was quick to check the SSA list for [name]Avery[/name] because I adore it on a boy and find it so trendy and unattractive on a girl. I was happy to see that it is still rising for boys in the US and hopefully it continues too - it’s time that people started fighting back for those boy’s names!
lol, people actually are naming their daughters [name]Michael[/name]. I’ve come across it several times.
And really?! I didn’t think [name]Avery[/name] was popular at all on Nameberry! Everyone always complains about how tired they are of hearing [name]Avery[/name] on girls. Sure, quite a few people like it, but I think others outside of Nameberry love it so much more.
If you love a name you should not give up on it easily. And I too have only met 2 girls named [name]Avery[/name]. That being said, the SSA list has [name]Avery[/name] as #18 for girls with 7,303 being given the name in 2011. For boys it’s ranked #201. So the girl Averys might not live in your neighborhood, but in real life I would consider it a popular girls name.
Thanks, everyone! Many of your other name suggestions suit me quite well, too, so that’s so helpful!
It’s true that [name]Avery[/name] isn’t all that popular for boys, but it is way up there for girls and I see it on several lockers at DD’s preschool (in pink). My assumption is that our little boy will be a bit on the nerdy side, given his parentage, so I don’t want to give him a name that his classmates will associate with girls.
DD’s name has never been in the top 1000, so while popularity and sibling matching isn’t a huge issue for me, I would like something fairly unique so it doesn’t sound too strange when I call them together! [name]Avery[/name] fits the bill very well when you consider it as a boys’ name, but those people using it on girls are ruining it!
[name]Avery[/name] sounds like a girl’s name to me, it just sounds feminine to my ear. It’s also a name I could easily see taking off in popularity for a girl name. [name]Just[/name] my honest opinion.
Still, I think it’s perfect. 