It astounds me how I can pick 10 girls names off the top of my head that I love but boys just take so much more effort. Anyone else like this? Or the other way around?
My girls list is a lot longer than my boys list. I currently only have four on boys list. I have a couple boy names I’m so-so about that I used to really love and I guess they are still kind of on the list. 
I hope I have a girl next because I don’t really want to deal with deciding on boys names, haha. We have a top choice for a girl, almost 100% she would be [name]Claire[/name]. I guess right now I’m more struggling with the middle name choices for my boys. I think [name]Avery[/name] and [name]Weston[/name] are at the top for first names, but not sure about their middles.
LOL, for me its the opposite. It’s much easier for me to come up with a name combo I’m happy with as far as boys names go, not so with girl names.
It’s the opposite with me too… I have plenty of boys names and combos that I love but not a single girl name I feel “in love” with. I also feel more adventurous with boys names for some reason.
Boy are harder for me as well this time around. Last time I struggled w girl names.
I’m the opposite for a couple of reasons. Firstly, at least for my first son (when he comes along someday) his middle name is pretty much set in stone as it is in honor of a loved one. This means I only have to pick a first name which brings me to the second reason I find boys easier. My boys list only has a few names on it that I am seriously considering. There are always a couple of names rotating on and off the list as fleeting fancies come and go but there are only a very small handful that I’m really considering and of those there are two that are a head above the rest. On the other hand, my girls list is extensive! There are just so many beautiful guirls names that it is much harder to narrow down what I really would want to use and for girls I have no family or friends etc. to honor. For me that makes the boys list most likely to be easier since it’s shorter and easier to whittle down.
I totally agree. I find myself only really looking at the girls names because for my personally there are more girl options, and for boys it’s traditional, made-up, or over-popular!
I am one of the “opposites.” I can do a boys’ Top Ten off the top of my head, but for girls, to fill in the Top Ten I have to use a few names I’m not crazy about. It may be because I’m a [name]Christian[/name] and know a lot of families who use mainly Bible names, and there are way more great boy’s names in the Bible than girl’s names. I wouldn’t necessarily use all Bible names–in fact, not a single one of my girls’ Top Five are in the Bible, though a couple are clearly Bible-inspired–but I theorize that may be the origin of my ease with boys’ names and my difficulty with girls’. I don’t know. I just find it much harder to fall in love with a girl’s name. Maybe thelifespark is right–there are so many girls’ names, it’s harder to choose!
I’m the opposite. While I like a lot more girl names, I love only a few. Boy names are just so much easier and there are more options.
That’s my biggest problem with girls names. Sheer volume gives me a headache. Plus my style girls name wise is much mroe all over the place whereas I have a much more specific genre I like for boys–i.e. mostly Biblical and old fashioned–even though I am not religious I find these names the most handsome and classy on boys. For girls I like a mixture of old lad chic, romantic, and literary and the list is easily 10x as long as my boys list.
For my mom, it was always more difficult to pick girls’ names than boys, but I feel the same as you: girls are easier, boys…not so much. I already have 2-3 girls names that I’m in love with and plan on using. Boys…I have some that I like, but none I’m 100% sure that I want to use.
As for my mom ([name]Kristen[/name] [name]Lee[/name]) on the other hand, always told me that she tried to pick masculine names for my brothers:
[name]Timothy[/name] [name]Tyler[/name] (Named after his father, but goes by [name]Tyler[/name]) 19,
[name]Davis[/name] [name]Cole[/name] (My mother’s maiden name, and his middle name is shared by our father) 9,
and [name]Jake[/name] [name]Ryan[/name] ([name]Jake[/name] was the only name her and my step-father could agree on, [name]Ryan[/name] is his middle name also) 5.
She also tells me she had much difficulty picking out my name ([name]Zoey[/name] [name]Abbigail[/name], though I now perfer the spelling of [name]Zoie[/name]) 16.
Here are some of the names she has picked out for me:
[name]Kendall[/name],
[name]Cassidy[/name] “[name]Cassie[/name]”,
and [name]Alyssa[/name].
Ugh, I am so like this! I mean, I’ve gotten to the point where I have about 4-7 names I really love for each gender and it’ll probably stay like that forever, those are just the names I love. And sometimes the last couple names will swap on and off (like [name]Eleni[/name] over [name]Hannah[/name] one day, and then the other day [name]Hannah[/name]'s on the top 7 and [name]Eleni[/name]‘s not…), but it’s pretty much just set at around 7. However, I can still come up with a solid top 10 (or maybe even 12!) for girls, but I am trying to complete my boys’ top 10 right now and I can’t seem to find more than 8 that I really love. I really don’t know why it is, the certain style I love seems to have an abundance of names, but none of them really wow me like my top 8 do.
Boy names are much easier for me to pick than girls. I think it’s cause girls give strong impressions in high school or at least for me.
Boys’ names are way easier for me than girls’ names. I could make a list of boys’ names I love in a heartbeat, but make a list of girls’ names I love? That will take me a while. It’s harder for me to fall in love with girls’ names. Part of it has to do with my longing for a son. When I imagine myself with children, the children are either all boys or mostly boys. I’ve never been able to see myself with more than one or two daughters.
I’m definitely the other way around, but it kind of balances out.
I like a TON of girl names. My ‘like list’ is very lengthy. When it comes to narrowing them down, though, I lose about 90% of the time between the ‘like’ and ‘love’ categories, so my short list is rather tiny for girls after I make the category jump.
I like less boy names overall, but I love more. I could make 20 boy combos that I’d use in a heartbeat with relative ease. I’d have an easier time pulling my own teeth than to do that for girls.