Boy's style and Girl's style completely different.

General Name Discussion
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I was looking over my style of boy’s names and girl’s names and I’ve noticed they are completely different. The girl’s list is ever-changing, and the boy’s list has pretty much stayed the same in the last 10+ years - rarely do I add or erase any names ([name]Mason[/name] was the lastest addition about 4-5 years ago). Does anyone have something similar with their lists? Oh - and I’m not fond of alternative spellings with boys, whereas with the girl’s I am. And the girl’s names are all over the place on the SSA chart, but the boys are pretty much in the top 200.

Boys are:
[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Christopher[/name]
[name]Ryan[/name]
[name]Nicholas[/name]
[name]Dylan[/name]
[name]Brandon[/name]
[name]Brendon[/name]
[name]Brayden[/name]
[name]Mason[/name]
[name]Lucas[/name]
[name]Nathaniel[/name]
[name]Nathan[/name]
[name]Sean[/name]
[name]Kyle[/name]
[name]Jesse[/name]
[name]Ashton[/name]
[name]Jeremy[/name]
[name]Damian[/name]
[name]Keegan[/name]
[name]Justin[/name]

Here is SOME of the Girls (they’re all over the place):
[name]Victoria[/name]
[name]Caitlyn[/name]
[name]Cailyn[/name]
[name]Leighton[/name]
[name]Seneca[/name]
[name]Cadence[/name]
[name]Sariah[/name]
[name]Juliana[/name]
[name]Willow[/name]
[name]Willa[/name]
[name]Daniella[/name]
[name]Ella[/name]
[name]Angelica[/name]
[name]Ashlyn[/name]
[name]Alanna[/name]
[name]Sienna[/name]

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I have very boring taste in boys names - very classic and overused in most generations, for the most part. I can’t get into this style and flair with boys names too much. I think at last check, [name]Donovan[/name] was as crazy as I could manage to go, as opposed to [name]Daniel[/name] and [name]John[/name], etc., like that.

For girls, I am a little more whimsical, I’d say. Not by a huge amount, but I would say I don’t even have one style of girls names that I love the most. I usually say I like short, but not too short, nor plain names, maybe from another country, but I also like older names, I also like names that aren’t so old yet, and some of them are longer than I think I would actually use, but I still love them.

For the most part, though, I feel they are the kind of names that will always go with really safe-style traditional boys names because those names are timeless - I wouldn’t have to pair that with a classic girls name. I am trying to think of any girls name throughout history that wouldn’t have probably had a brother with a traditional sort of name. I think you have to go way outside the box to find a name that sounds really awkward with plain old [name]John[/name], in which case, um… [name]Timothy[/name]. ??? That’s a little on the quirky side for me, but I love the nn [name]Tim[/name].