Our baby girl will be named [name]Kensington[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]. Please help us find a super feminine middle name that flows well with the others.
Thanks!
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Hannah[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Amelia[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Matilda[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Lara[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Ava[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Lily[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Anna[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Ciara[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Cora[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Ivy[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Rose[/name] [name]Cruise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Hope[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Elise[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Eloise[/name]
I’m blanking right now. I’ll come back if I think of more!
Why not find her a super feminine first name? [name]Kensington[/name] is harsh to saddle a child with.
Welp, it’s one thing to offer a negative opinion when someone asks for it, but to be so critical when the person’s already decided on it…eh, okay.
For the record, OP, even though I was down on [name]Kensington[/name] before, I really do think [name]Kenzi[/name] is a fine nickname, and I doubt such a name will bring any hardship on your child at all. Nameberry tends to have really conservative naming practises. Anyway, I have nothing to add to the middles already suggested.
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Reina[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Rosa[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Lila[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Mary[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Iris[/name]
This was tougher than I thought!
I think something two syllable sounds the best. [name]Kensington[/name] [name]Maya[/name], [name]Kensington[/name] [name]Jana[/name], [name]Kensington[/name] [name]Mabel[/name]?
A) I’m not conservative with names, lol, I just feel as thought something as blatantly masculine has no place on a little girl.
B) The child is not named yet - also, when you put something on the internet, you [name]WILL[/name] get comments, plain and simple. I think it’s a horrid choice and doing a little girl a disservice. You can think differently all you want, but I stand by what I said.
The OP started a thread just three days ago soliciting opinions on [name]Kensington[/name], which were about 90% negative. The negativity was fairly overt and strident-- no “it’s nms” statements, but detailed explanation of why people really didn’t like it. I’m curious why the OP decided to ignore that feedback and settle on the name?
I guess that sounds pretty conservative to me, alas.
No, I don’t agree with the huge social implications of girls being able to be masculine but boys not being able to be feminine, it goes [name]WAY[/name] beyond a personal sense of style. My own list is full of weird obscure names, I am far from conservative. I also believe that there is NOTHING wrong or weak about femininity, which seems to be a huge point with the masculine names for girls thing.
Exactly. It’s first wave feminism, not second-wave. Very 70s.
Eh, first of all, 70s feminism = second wave.
Secondly, the argument doesn’t much hold up to scrutiny, when you consider that the same folks who call boy names on girls “horrid” don’t call girls doing other traditionally masculine things (like playing sport, for example), “horrid”. I’m not sure which brand of feminism says it’s all right for girls to do only traditionally feminine things, when they may like traditionally masculine things, too, which may include having a name that’s associated with boyishness. I know very few people to have given their daughters more unisex or boys names because they thought it was “stronger”. They do it because they like the sound or they think it’s cool. This is coming from a super high femme person with a boy name, whose male children sew, knit, with one who does ballet. It seems like the solution would be to create a culture in which boys and men are allowed to do traditionally feminine things, not berating women who happen to like the way [name]Kensington[/name] sounds on a girl.
Again - it’s a name site and when you post something on the internet,m you will get opinions. Its your own choice to be offended or let it bother you.
Secondly, the “sounding cool” excuse is getting so old. In a perfect world, men and women would be completely equal - a man could be into musical theater and dress in a skirt and not have his sexual orientation questioned, but as it stands, girls can do things men can and it’s ok, but not the other way around. I don’t see it turning around - I really really rarely see a post about a unisex or feminine name for a boy. Doesn’t happen. If it DID, it would be different, but it doesn’t. So why would I encourage the double standard.
I just wanted to add that as a mother of boys, I wholeheartedly disagree with the double standard and we don’t put gender stereotypes onto our children, they do as they please, dress how they like and play with whatever toys strike their fancy. I can’t advocate the continuation of the double standard - until males are given feminine names, I won’t be ok with females being given male names. I don’t think it’s right - at all. And I hate the whole anti-femininity movement thats been going on for the past decade or so.
So you encourage girls not to play sport, to wear only dresses and skirts, to have only long hair, to not pursue the sciences, too…since you wouldn’t want to encourage the double standard, after all, right? I guess I’m just confused by the argument, why names receive such ire, compared to all other facets where girls can do more traditionally masculine things. But apparently, a name crosses some invisible line.
“Sounding cool” seems like a perfectly good reason to pick a name to me, if not to you, which, hey, is valid. There are more girl Isabellas than there are girl Logans, and therefore a girl [name]Logan[/name] will sound slightly more novel than a girl [name]Isabella[/name], which tends to translate to “sounding cool” for people. If that’s what people like, that’s they’re prerogative.
I’m not offended. I’m not sure why someone disagreeing with you qualifies as taking offense.
And in what universe can girls do anything men can and it’s okay? Not when women are still underpaid for the same work, are less likely to have their books published even though women dominate the reading world, are less likely to be hired in academia, the technical world, be more discriminated against in any STEM fields, when girls, especially in their teen years, are called all kinds of slurs because they don’t conform to whatever the standards of beauty or femininity are, etc, etc, eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, more likely to feel ugly and undervalued, etc etc. I suppose I’d like to live in this magical world you describe. It certainly would’ve made my life much better.
And we clearly disagree on all this, and fighting on the internet is the silliest thing one can do. So I’ll roll out of this discussion.
Of course I don’t disagree with girls doing those things - like I’ve stated, I don’t raise my kids with those gender guidelines.
You obvioulsy have no idea what I’m trying to say, so I’ll just leave it at this - I don’t agree with the double standard, but encouraging it by using masculine names on girls but not feminine names on boys DOES NOT do anything to change that way of thinking. All it’s doing is propelling the idea. Also - I [name]DO[/name] believe there is a difference between men and women, there is no denying that and I think that not embracing that difference is just as detrimental as the double standard. Men and women should have the ability to do the same things, but that doesn’t mean embracing and celebrating femininity should be discouraged - which is basically the message that this trend is sending out.
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Ayesha[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Aria[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Eva[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Esme[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Iris[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Iona[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Orla[/name]
[name]Kensington[/name] [name]Olivia[/name]
I think all of these sound good with [name]Kensington[/name], and I’m sorry your thread has been hijacked by rudeness, feminism and over inflated egoism.
Good luck!
LOL! ok. 