I am a girly girl and I love super feminine names. But… do you ever worry about giving your little girl a name that’s too girly or frilly. I mean it’s fine if she is a girly girl but what if she grows up to be a tom boy. I have a friend named [name_f]Tiffany[/name_f] and she is such a tom boy never wears make up and steers clear of anything too girly. She now goes only by [name_f]Tiff[/name_f]. She recently had a daughter and named her [name_u]Rowan[/name_u]. She didn’t want her daughter to be locked into a super feminine name. My niece is a sports fanatic and star hockey player (not to say you can’t be into sports and girly). She feels the same way about her feminine name. It seems like a girls name that is more gender neutral can work for a tom boy or girly girl but not so much the other way around. I guess gender neutral names are on trend right now. What do you think?
Most (if not all) names on my list are very feminine and I like it that way. We won’t be able to accurately predict the kid’s personality anyway so I say it’s better to just go with the name we love. If my daughter turns out to be a tomboy, she can always choose a boyish nickname (e.g., my super girly top choice, [name_f]Seraphina[/name_f], can be Raph or [name_u]Finn[/name_u]), fine by me. For every tomboy girl with a feminine name, you can find a girly girl with unisex/boyish name who hates her name for being not feminine enough. Again, we can’t predict. I prefer to name my kids the name I love rather than choosing a gender neutral name I don’t love only to regret it later though.
My mom actually made this comment to me about my one combo, [name_f]Juliet[/name_f] [name_f]Sophia[/name_f]. She told me it was too girly and princessy as a critique. (my mother’s style is very different than mine as her daughters names are [name_u]Shannon/name_u and B0bbie [name_u]Jo[/name_u]) It made me think about this because she said it to me like it was a bad thing to do to my child. I think femininity can be strong as well, and I don’t think its a bad thing to have a strong girly name. Like the previous poster said, if my daughter grows up to be more of a tom boy and wants to go by a less feminine form of their name( Such as [name_u]Jule[/name_u]/[name_u]Jules[/name_u] for [name_f]Juliet[/name_f]) or anything else they can think of, that’s fine with me. The same would go for my boys, if they wanted to go by another nn of their name that more suited their personality, I’d be fine with that too. Most times kids grow into their names, no matter what you name them.
@princessshannon [name_f]Juliet[/name_f] [name_f]Sophia[/name_f] is perfect and beautiful and why is she butting in anyway? She already got her chance to name her kids.
No. I think your style is your style. You can’t name your kids based on the “what ifs” of their personality.
PrincessShannon and C@29 you have both picked beautiful names and they come with great nick name options. So true that there is always the option for a nickname later on.
Would anyone ever ask “don’t you think that boy’s name is too masculine?”
All the other posters here are totally on point. You get one chance to name each child, and you have to do it well before they develop any meaningful personality traits. You cannot predict what kind of people they are going to be. You just name them something that you love as much as you love your little tiny person, and then they grow into it and make it their own. Everyone has angsty periods over their names for whatever reason–too girly, not girly enough, too many L’s, too many other kids have it, NO other kids have it, whatever. There’s not a magical formula for the perfect name that everyone will love and your kid will never, ever rebel against. You just go with your gut, and give them a decent middle name to fall back on. You’ve got this. [name_m]Don[/name_m]'t second guess yourself.
All very good points above.
Also - you cannot predict naming fashions of the future - things might seem and sound very different in a couple of decades, who knows how?
Plus, you cannot predict your child’s future - they might move to somewhere where their name will just have a different sort of ring or meaning to it. Like, where I was born my name is totally normal, but the country I now live in, it’s totally unpronounceable and causing me occasional trouble. My parents would not have predicted that 
and I just deal with it in my own sweet way.
So go for what you love, and the future will just take care of itself one way or another.
Names are only ‘too girly’ due to your own personal associations.
Different people would think different names are girlier than others or vice versa.
Go with whatever name you love.
Gotta agree with this; it’s funny how one never, ever hears anyone comment: “I like Rafe, Holt, and Steel for a boy. But I’m worried that he won’t be a super manly-man who grows up to be a construction worker or a bladesmith, and maybe he’ll be uncomfortable with an obviously masculine name. What if he wants to be a nurse? Or a kindergarten teacher? Maybe I should stick with Jamie, Jordan, or Taylor because those are unisex. Or Chris and Sam because he could lengthen those into Christina and Samantha if he wanted.” The majority would laugh if they overheard this conversation - yet we worry that Seraphina, Anastasia, or Juliette are branding our daughters with an unbearable future if it turns out that they aspire to be a rugby star. What if the rugby star also loves to shop and play with makeup when she’s not training? Personality traits are not mutually exclusive.
Anyway, that’s the long way of saying no - I don’t think a name can be too girly. The fact that we as a culture can ask this question but never even consider the reverse is rather insulting, and raises yet more disturbing questions. (I’m not picking on you for asking it, by the way - just musing aloud.)
Go with your heart. Your daughter’s personality will shape and mold the name as she grows. And as others have said, none of us have any control over who that little infant grows into. You only get so many chances to name children in your lifetime, so relax, enjoy, and take pride in what you ultimately decide. (I think your attitude has a lot to do with how she’ll feel about the name as well. If you’re uncomfortable with ultra-feminine names, she’s obviously going to pick up on it at some point. But if you name her Amarantha and go through life with her as though it’s no more ridiculous or outlandish than Blake or Hayden and it need not stop her from climbing trees or snowboarding down mountains or whatever the heck she wants to do, she’s likely to be a lot more comfortable and confident wearing it.)
I second this, it’s not said enough on this site, but personalities are not set until approximately 7 years of age (according to my college professors a couple years back in child development classes), so to name your child based on a ton of “what if’s” is rather odd really. You can’t plan ahead that well, so no, I don’t think it’s an issue at all, and I think style is your own, it’s not really something to compare with others, because no one will have the EXACT same likes and dislikes and connections to names as you do. Style is very individual, and should not be changed because of another’s opinion of it.
I’m a very girly girl, with a unisex name. While my name is more used for girls, it does have rather famous cases of being used on men. Do I find my name masculine? Maybe, but not to a point where I feel as though I’ve been damaged by my parents because of my name. I make up for it with the way I dress, act, and the things I do, really, and I feel that a tomboy named Arabella or Minnie would do the same.
I think I agree with the majority of posters here, go with what you like! Most names now have oodles of nickname options that if your children really want to, they can go by whichever nn they choose. That being said, you could choose a more feminine girly first name, and a more neutral middle name as an alternative, that way your daughter could simply go by her middle name if she preferred.
Personally, I’m a fan of very feminine sounding names for girls, and strong masculine names for boys. That’s just my own personal style. So, honestly go with what you love. [name_f]Juliet[/name_f] [name_f]Sophia[/name_f] is gorgeous btw, top marks from me!
I say no, names can’t be to girly or boyish when used on the correct gender.
I say no too. At the end of the day, no one really cares about the name of someone, but more so how they dress, their behaviour and their hobbies and interests. Those sort of things shape us into the labels of tomboy or girly-girl (if we’re discussing the female gender here, and I do hate labels). Thankfully, though, I am not a huge fan of really feminine girl names and ultra masculine boy names, so Isabellina or Spider-[name_m]Man[/name_m] won’t be an issue if Isabellina wants to cut trees down for a living and Spider-[name_m]Man[/name_m] wants to be a makeup artist.
[name_m]Just[/name_m] because a girl is a ‘tomboy’ and doesn’t like dresses or make up and wants to play soccer and climb trees, doesn’t mean that she can’t have more feminine aspects to her or her personality and that she can’t be proud to be an empowered woman! So I would agree! Plus [name_f]Juliet[/name_f] is a beautiful name