[name]Do[/name] you think that a name can be too feminine or too masculine? Is [name]Maverick[/name] [name]Ryker[/name] too male for you, or [name]Isadora[/name] [name]Henrietta[/name] [name]Leona[/name] [name]Claire[/name] too girlie, or is this not actually possible? Any comments are appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I don’t know about “too masculine/feminine”, but I think names can become too “frilly” with spelling or multiple middle names.
[name]Just[/name] my opinion, but they totally can. I personally find over the top frilly feminine names and hyper-masculine names equally unpleasant. Of course everybody has a different definition of what those type of names are so it’s all subjective. Like from your example, I don’t think [name]Isadora[/name], [name]Leona[/name], or [name]Claire[/name] are too [name]OTT[/name] girlie on their own ([name]Henrietta[/name] maybe but that’s another story), but together yes it’s too much for me. [name]Maverick[/name] and [name]Ryker[/name] are too much on their own or together [name]IMO[/name] – I know they’re just examples, but just easier for me to use your examples lol.
In my opinion, no name is too masculine or feminine. I love feminine picks like [name]Violetta[/name] and [name]Elisabetta[/name] - it’s all taste.
I love [name]Isadora[/name], but I am not a fan of THREE middle names. That is too much.
That said, I [name]LOVE[/name] super masculine and super feminine names. I like not having to guess a person’s gender by their name.
Anything can be taken to extremes.
[name]Sugar[/name], [name]Honey[/name], [name]Princess[/name], Ovary
[name]Butch[/name], [name]Dick[/name], Priapus, [name]Manly[/name]
I don’t think so. Too many MN can seem a bit pretentious, but I personally like masculine and feminine names. I’m not a fan of most unisex names, except for nature and word names which don’t usually have a gender assigned to them, but I still think most feel either masculine or feminine. I like names like [name]Maverick[/name] for a boy and [name]Isadora[/name] for a girl.
Haha, I stand corrected! Yes, a name can be overly feminine or overly masculine. 
Most definitely not too feminine or masculine.
There’s too choppy, too silly, too cutesy.
[name]Maverick[/name] [name]Ryker[/name] is too choppy, and unrealistic to me. [name]Isadora[/name] [name]Henrietta[/name] [name]Leona[/name] [name]Claire[/name] is too cutesy, and excessive imo.
Personally I find [name]Isabella[/name] to be too frilly/feminine. [name]Isobel[/name] is nice and soft, but [name]Isabella[/name] is too much.
I don’t really find any masculine names to be too much.
I think it’s possible, I mean you wouldn’t name a boy [name]Regina[/name] [name]Ophelia[/name] [name]Anne[/name] or a girl [name]Marcus[/name] [name]Alexander[/name] [name]Hunter[/name]
I don’t think so. Another member (I forget who! Sorry!) once mentioned that names are like logic puzzles. Given the taste, naming style, flow, sibling names and last name of the parents, what name will work or fit? That’s how I’m trying to approach the naming process for my little one and that’s how I try to suggest names for other people.
[name]Long[/name], multi-syllabic girls’ names and short choppy boys’ names usually aren’t a hit with me but I prefer them to unisex-sounding names.
I completely agree with the frilly part here. And the same would go for extremely butch names for boys too. So I guess I think a name can be “too much”, although I don’t know that they have to fit into the too masculine or too feminine category
Yes and no.
For me, absolutely. I prefer names to have some balance, especially when they get frilly. [name]Arabella[/name] or [name]Anastasia[/name] for example…I have friends who [name]LOVE[/name] frilly uber fem names, but for me, they need something that feels grounded. BUT…I think in general, it’s more a taste thing than anything else, names can be too feminine in the same way that some names I love would be seen as too stodgy for some, if that makes sense.
I think it depends on the names and on the person’s interests. I don’t always like frilly names, but sometimes they sound nice to me. The one frilly name that is cute, but I could never use because it is so frilly for me is the name [name]Seraphina[/name]. It is a very cute name, but I am not girly enough to have a daughter pull it off. I think having all those girls names together does look very frilly. Of course, if you like that type of name that is the most important thing.
For the boys, I don’t really like names like [name]Maverick[/name] or [name]Ryker[/name] together because of the harder sound on the end of [name]Maverick[/name] and the hard sound at the beginning of [name]Ryker[/name]. I think a tough name like that needs a softer boys name to balance it out. I don’t mind tough boys names, but they aren’t really my preferred.