Heya, haven’t posted here in a while. So, I definitely don’t want kids for at least 5 years yet. I’m not even legally an adult until later this year lol. But for some reason, I’ve been brainstorming future baby names a lot recently. It’s more boys’ names because I’ve already got my girls’ names sorted. Well, for now. My tastes always change though XD
There’s a boys’ name I’ve liked for ages now, since maybe ten years old. Whenever I first started getting into names. And honestly, I’m starting to think that I’ll only have one kid and if he’s a boy this is the name I’d like to go with. Anyway, that name is [name_u]Skyler[/name_u]. I used to ask people their opinion on the name when I was a kid and they were mostly like, “It sounds like a girls’ name. You should give him something more manly. Here’s names I like…” I don’t think [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] sounds like a girls’ name! It’s one of the names I see as more or less totally unisex. Like [name_u]Taylor[/name_u], [name_u]River[/name_u], [name_u]Dylan[/name_u], etc. Wasn’t it initially a boys’ name anyway? I thought [name_u]Schuyler[/name_u] was but I don’t really like that spelling. I don’t think most would know how to pronounce it, unless they were name nerds. I didn’t know it until I joined Nameberry anyway lol.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having a softer sounding name anyway but I don’t want my kid to be teased because of a decision I made. Although, I was born female and given a male’s name and I don’t think anyone ever said anything about it. But I think it’d be worse the other way around. I think a boy with a girl’s name would be way more likely to be teased than a girl with a boy’s name.
I don’t know, do you think [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] has gone the same way as names like [name_u]Madison[/name_u] and [name_u]Courtney[/name_u]? [name_f]Do[/name_f] you think it’s gone completely to the girls?
I might end up just doing all this worrying for nothing… I might end up with a girl instead of a boy and even if I do have a boy, my future partner could easily veto it lol.
I think [name_u]Skylar[/name_u] is still distinctly unisex, I wouldn’t bat an eye at meeting a little boy named [name_u]Skylar[/name_u]/[name_u]Skyler[/name_u]. I think it’s very handsome.
[name_u]Skyler[/name_u] is extremely unisex to me. Could go either way and not feel too feminine or masculine. I think because it’s both based on a surname and has a nature theme, it really doesn’t have any strict ties to either gender.
[name_u]Love[/name_u] it for a boy I highly doubt a male [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] would be made fun of for his name being too “girly”.
Pre nameberry, it was fully girl to me however now, I much prefer it on a boy. I think the general public find it more girl, the nameberry community seem to find it more boy, it is, in general, pretty unisex and I do know a few [name_u]Skyler[/name_u]/[name_u]Schuyler[/name_u] etc named boys.
[name_u]Skyler[/name_u] is still unisex to me. However, the spelling [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] is the “boy spelling” and [name_u]Skylar[/name_u] is the “girl spelling” for me.
I also consider it to be very unisex (leaning boy really). Like the pp, [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] seems to be the more masculine spelling to my eye, perhaps because of the similarity to [name_u]Tyler[/name_u].
I think of [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] as feminine, but only because I have ever known female Skylers. I do think that [name_u]Skye[/name_u] is completely unisex, and I personally love it as a boys’ middle.
There was a boy in my graduating class named [name_u]Schuyler[/name_u] and he did just fine (football player, popular guy). I would assume [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] was a girl if I saw it, just because it’s much more common for girls and he’s the only boy [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] I’ve ever known (and I’ve met a few girl Skylers) but I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find out the name belonged to a boy. It definitely hasn’t become [name_u]Madison[/name_u] or [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u], where people argue that they’re girls names now because of skewed usage.
I agree. It disturbs me that so many women see no issue in speaking of names as “gone to the girls” as though femininity is some dark, undesirable state from which there is no return.
I highly doubt a male [name_u]Skyler[/name_u] would be made fun of for his name being too “girly”.