Boys vs Girls ish

[indicinderelly.livejournal.com]

So seeing my name in a boys list a couple posts down made me think of this. (I was aware it's a boys name, or at least the boys spelling? But I haven't thought about it *too* much, except that I don't like it a whole lot)

So I wanted to get your opinions on a couple of names:

Jessica Aaron (f) (she later changed this to Jessica Erin)
Casey Paige (f) (I have not changed this..yet?)

Jon (f) (I don't know her middle name)

Edited to make the sibset more clear.

Comments

[indicinderelly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my brother and uncle are both Jon (brother named after uncle), so it was very unusual to me. I usually like unusual, to an extent, but this one struck me as odd.

They are pronounced basically the same way, but it was on her drivers licence, medical records, etc and she got strange looks and got tired of explaining it.

I think Casey is okay for a girl's name as a nickname (my opinion may be influenced by the fact that it's my name and I hate that my parents named me as a boy and after a boy so :P lol). But just as "Casey" for a girl it's weird to me. I have people (particularly males) tell me all the time how I spelled it wrong, or girls asking me if it's short for Cassandra. So IDK maybe I'm poorly influenced :)

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

Re: Aaron and Erin, I meant that it should have been Erin all along, not that she shouldn't have changed it :) I meant that just because it's pronounced the same does not mean that you can give the name Aaron to a girl. Kind of like the Francis/Frances distinction, except that that *is* the same name, but should still be spelled differently.

The only Caseys I have ever known personally were male, but I remember thinking when I met them that it was kind of a girly name. But there was a girl on Canadian Idol a few years ago named Casey, and I really liked both her and her name hehe. It suited her.

To me Casey isn't really a nickname for Cassandra ... Cass and Cassie are, but not Casey.

[indicinderelly.livejournal.com]

I knew that's what you were saying. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my response on Aaron vs Erin. I was just agreeing with you and shaking my head at my dad thinking it worked. He never understood any of her reasons for hating it.

Written out (and I guess spoken as well) Cass and Cassie make much more sense as nicknames for Cassandra, but I knew a girl who went by Casey which was short for Cassandra (I only remember her because she thought I stole her name, as if I had a choice in naming myself).