[name_u]Elliot[/name_u] is the only boy name my husband and I can agree on. I was shocked to see it break the 1,000 mark for girls, but I guess it shouldn’t be, since [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] Chalke played an [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] on Scrubs.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you see [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] becoming a truly unisex name like [name_u]Jordan[/name_u] or more of a girl’s name like [name_u]Avery[/name_u] or [name_u]Harper[/name_u]? Or will it be like [name_u]Dylan[/name_u], way more popular for boys but still used steadily for girls?
We might stick with it because we both love it, but I don’t want to use it if it becomes a solidly girl name.
We also like [name_m]Marshall[/name_m], [name_m]Marcus[/name_m], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] and [name_m]Quentin[/name_m], but not as much as [name_u]Elliot[/name_u].
[name_u]Elliott[/name_u] / [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] is still all boy. [name_m]Even[/name_m] if some girls are named that, they get a boy name NOT a unisex one.
Definitely use it!
People shouldn’t need to worry about using boyish names on boys.
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u] is still solidly a boy’s name. [name_m]Don[/name_m]'t jettison it because a couple hundred people out of thousands and thousands used it for their girls. Look at the number one girl’s name on the SSA list. Then look at [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] on the SSA list for girls. It’s not going to amount to much in the grand scheme of things.
100 years ago, [name_u]Meredith[/name_u] and [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] were boys names.
When my mom was a kid, every [name_u]Ashley[/name_u], [name_u]Dana[/name_u], and [name_u]Lindsay[/name_u] she knew were boys.
When I was a kid, every [name_u]Avery[/name_u], [name_u]Madison[/name_u], and [name_u]Emerson[/name_u] I met was a boy.
As you know, all the aforementioned names are now considered girl names.
Now, some parents are naming their daughters [name_u]James[/name_u] or [name_u]Michael[/name_u]. It makes my blood boil. [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] is a boy name.
I love [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] for a boy! It’s one of my absolute favorites!
I don’t really see it as a girl’s name at all. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, I think most people wil still automatically assume it’s a boy.
To me, [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] is all boy! I can’t imagine it on a little girl, even though it is rising in popularity. It almost sounds like a Hipster Cowboy name to me, a la today’s blog. If you and your husband both love [name_u]Elliot[/name_u], use it!
Out of your other names, I like [name_m]Marcus[/name_m] and [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], but definitely not as much as [name_u]Elliot[/name_u]. Good luck!
Honestly I can easily see it on both boys and girls, like I do [name_u]Avery[/name_u], [name_u]Ashley[/name_u], [name_u]River[/name_u], [name_u]Sage[/name_u], [name_u]Finley[/name_u], …
I pointed this out in a recent [name_u]Elliot[/name_u]-on-a-girl thread:
Children named [name_u]Elliot/name_u in 2012 (if anyone wants to go past the top 1,000, be my guest)–
boys
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u] (242) 1,480
[name_u]Elliott[/name_u] (277) 1,252
[name_u]Eliot[/name_u] (935) 215
girls
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u] (862) 307
It’s pretty safe to say that this is still a decidedly male name that is only used on girls occasionally. Out of ever 100 people named [name_u]Elliot/name_u, only 9 are girls.
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u] is all boy to me! Please use it!
Also if people are afraid to give their boys boyish names because a couple of hundred girls get it, it one day will go the girls. But every other boy name would too. And then they’re will be no boy names left!
Major over reaction. You can not possibly think that there will be a time when there will be no boy names. I feel like this whole subject over [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] has been a big over reaction. There has been other names asked about and the reactions were no where close to how they were over [name_u]Elliot[/name_u]. I honestly wonder if this comes from fear that [name_u]Elliot[/name_u] might be going to the girls sooner then later.
that was a joke! I do think that there will always be boys names left, as the naming style changes over the years, so maybe [name_u]Meredith[/name_u], [name_u]Addison[/name_u], [name_u]Madison[/name_u] and [name_u]Ashley[/name_u] will go back to the boys one day. But for now, girls are being names [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] and also [name_u]Elliott[/name_u], some people even prefer those for girls (why?). And back in the day there had to be a time when parents who wanted to name their son [name_u]Meredith[/name_u] thought that, after hearing it on more and more girls, it might be too girly.
I don’t think that will ever happen to [name_m]Walter[/name_m], [name_m]Ronald[/name_m] or [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] but people seem to like giving their girls soft (which isn’t a bad thing) boy names & I hate it.
[name_u]Elliot[/name_u]/[name_u]Elliott[/name_u] is a boy name. Seeing it on a girl makes me cringe. I HATE boy names on girls. I hate it more than anything else.
So everyone that hates boys names on girls would never consider - [name_f]Beverley[/name_f], [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u], or [name_u]Vivian[/name_u] (to name a few examples)? I have seen people that have voiced their opinions over how awful it is to name girls boy names with [name_u]Aubrey[/name_u], [name_f]Audrey[/name_f], and other boys names on their favorite lists.
Plus how about names like Theodora, Georgiana, and Thomasina.
I wouldn’t mind if people named their little girl Elliotta / Elliota, I don’t like it but it would be a feminization of a name, not actually giving the girl a boy name.
I would think when the first people named their girls [name_f]Beverly[/name_f], others thought that was weird however now, decades later, it’s normal. Those names already went to the girls. So we grew up thinking those were girl names.
Maybe a name like [name_u]James[/name_u] might only be popular for girls in 70 years, however now it’s just strange.
So [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] when it went to the girls should have been [name_f]Evelyna[/name_f]. It should have also been [name_f]Viviana[/name_f], Beverlya, Kellya, Ashleya. I say NO. An A on the end doesn’t always feminize a name. So a boy’s name like [name_m]Ezra[/name_m] should be a girls name? I say NO.
Yes, you grew-up believing certain names have always been girl names, BUT they were not. The only difference between names changing over then and the names changing over now is that we are witness to these ones changing. There will be many other changes that go on well past all our deaths. Decades from now people will most likely never realize [name_u]Madison[/name_u], [name_u]Taylor[/name_u], and [name_u]Morgan[/name_u] were ever boy names…BUT they were.
There are plenty of Biblical male names that end in -a/ -ah. [name_m]Ezra[/name_m], [name_m]Judah[/name_m], [name_u]Micah[/name_u], [name_u]Noah[/name_u] are a few that come to mind.
I’ve seen [name_f]Jamesetta[/name_f] as a feminization of [name_u]James[/name_u].
I took [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] off my girl list when I found out it’s a traditionally male name. Its popularity also played a role, as I do not want my child to go through what I went through as a kid, having a ridiculously common name, and always having to answer to FirstName LastInitial. I wish American culture would stop thinking of the feminine as the lesser. I have a problem with the boys names on girls trend because once a name goes solidly female, it will likely never be “man” enough to use on a boy. If gender-swapping names happened both ways, I’d be okay with girls named [name_u]James[/name_u], if we saw an equal number of boys named [name_f]Sue[/name_f]. We as a society are fine with bestowing a baby girl with a boy name, but a little boy would be teased from here to next [name_f]Tuesday[/name_f] if he were given a girl name. [name_u]Ever[/name_u] male [name_u]Ashley[/name_u], [name_u]Courtney[/name_u], and [name_u]Dana[/name_u] I knew as a kid was incessantly teased for having a girl name. The same does not hold true for girls.
When I first heard [name_u]Emerson[/name_u] and [name_u]Madison[/name_u] girls, I wanted to scream. “-son” means “son of.” [name_f]Every[/name_f] [name_u]Madison[/name_u] and [name_u]Emerson[/name_u] I knew as a kid was a boy. When boys are named [name_f]Poppy[/name_f], [name_f]Susan[/name_f], or [name_f]Rebekah[/name_f] (and people see it as socially acceptable), I’ll accept gender-bending names. Until then…
There are plenty of Biblical male names that end in -a/ -ah. [name_m]Ezra[/name_m], [name_m]Judah[/name_m], [name_u]Micah[/name_u], [name_u]Noah[/name_u] are a few that come to mind.
I’ve seen [name_f]Jamesetta[/name_f] as a feminization of [name_u]James[/name_u].
I took [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] off my girl list when I found out it’s a traditionally male name. Its popularity also played a role, as I do not want my child to go through what I went through as a kid, having a ridiculously common name, and always having to answer to FirstName LastInitial. I wish American culture would stop thinking of the feminine as the lesser. I have a problem with the boys names on girls trend because once a name goes solidly female, it will likely never be “man” enough to use on a boy. If gender-swapping names happened both ways, I’d be okay with girls named [name_u]James[/name_u], if we saw an equal number of boys named [name_f]Sue[/name_f]. We as a society are fine with bestowing a baby girl with a boy name, but a little boy would be teased from here to next [name_f]Tuesday[/name_f] if he were given a girl name. [name_f]Every[/name_f] male [name_u]Ashley[/name_u], [name_u]Courtney[/name_u], and [name_u]Dana[/name_u] I knew as a kid was incessantly teased for having a girl name. The same does not hold true for girls.
When I first heard [name_u]Emerson[/name_u] and [name_u]Madison[/name_u] girls, I wanted to scream. “-son” means “son of.” [name_f]Every[/name_f] [name_u]Madison[/name_u] and [name_u]Emerson[/name_u] I knew as a kid was a boy. When boys are named [name_f]Poppy[/name_f], [name_f]Susan[/name_f], or [name_f]Rebekah[/name_f] (and people see it as socially acceptable), I’ll accept gender-bending names. Until then…