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[lkw18.livejournal.com]

In another comm. someone asked what everyone's favorite boy and girl names are...

sooo many people said Jordan for girls. Funny thing is Jordan is one of my favorite names for a BOY but I HATE it for a girl. Same goes for the name Bailey. Thoughts? Is anyone else like this? where you love a unisex name for one gender but hate it for the other?

also...someone said her ex-boyfriend's name is Lindsey...and while my kneejerk reaction was pretty much wtf? it's kinda growing on me now...

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[darabelle.livejournal.com]

haha that just reminds me of the time my ex and i were listening to the radio in the car and they were talking about stevie nicks and a past SO of hers named lindsey and we got all excited for a second that she'd had a relationship with a woman, and then we found out lindsey was a guy. =\

[lipsandhips.livejournal.com]

lindsey buckingham, the co-creator of fleetwood mac with mick fleetwood. and he was in a band with stevie called buckingham nicks before fleetwood existed.

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

=D

[lipsandhips.livejournal.com]

all originally boys names

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

my favourite high school teacher was a Scottish man named Lindsay. I thought it was cute for a girl, but as a guy my knee jerk reaction too was 'uhh wtf?' but after having him for two years, i thought about his name a lot and now i prefer it for a boy.

because of that, i have started to prefer that names of that sort (Alexis, Jordan, Shelby, etc) for boys.

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

There was a time when Lindsay, Kelly and Ashley were boys' names. Theyve gone to the girls now.


I dont like Jordan either way, but I think of it as a girl.

[cleddy.livejournal.com]

Courtney-i hate it for a boy but I know several!!

And while Skylar/Skyler is a unisex name, it's my daughter's name, but I dont really like it for a boy-i guess mainly because the nn Skye seems feminine to me...

Kelly and Ashley should be for girls only too!!

Oh and Peyton..I think it should be a boy name.

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

Love the icon! =D

[anapology.livejournal.com]

I think peyton should be a girls name!

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

I'm all for Peyton being a girls name too.

I think Kelly can easily go both ways... I know more male Kelly's than female ones.

[tinylittlestars.livejournal.com]

I prefer Jordan and Bailey for boys too. I could possibly do Jordyn for a girl, but not Bailey.

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I like Jordan as a girl's name, but not as a boy's. Same with Casey. I'm not really fan of most unisex names, though.

And Lindsa(e)y is TOTALLY a girl's name!! Haha, okay, so maybe I'm a little biased, but it's definitely a girl's name.

[colin-chaotic.livejournal.com]

I love Bailey! AS MY LAST NAME. Ahem, sorry. Better now.

Jordan will forever be a girl's name to me thanks to the TV show Crossing Jordan. Lindsey, I had always known was a boy's name, but until Lindsey McDonald on Angel, I couldn't imagine naming a boy Lindsey. Now I totally can. I actually prefer it on boys, because on boys it seems interesting - on girls, it screams "bitch" to me, because all five of the Lindsays/Lindseys I've know have been complete and total jerks. Not saying they all are, but it's just that little automatic reaction, you know?


(Anyone else get the sinking feeling that in ten/twenty years, there's going to be comments of "OMG, Jackson/Tristan/Tyler is a GIRLS name, how could they name a BOY that?!" 'Cause I do. I mean, it's already happened with Madison, and Aiden, and tons of others.)

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

I actually prefer it on boys, because on boys it seems interesting - on girls, it screams "bitch" to me

ya! that's kind of why it's growing on me...you don't hear it often for a boy [even though originally it was i know] and i think that's what makes it unique.

haha yeah good call about the jackson/tristan/tyler. i guess it's just all relative to time.

[pregosaurus.livejournal.com]

Madison has always seemed masculine to me. I'm not crazy about the name anyway, but I would put it on a boy before a girl.

Courtney will always be a boys name to me... Maybe it is a coastal thing, I grew up in the east with only male Courtneys and out west I have only met girl Courtneys.

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

im in the UK and i don't know any girls names Jordan, only boys. (well apart from the glamour model Jordan).
And I know a few boys called Ashley too, over here if you say your son was called Ashley, most people wouldn't be like "omg why did you call him that, it's a girls name" it's just accepted as a boys name i guess.

I do like Jordyn for a girl though, only spelt like this =)

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

named*

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people who like Bailey as a girl's name & even have a daughter named Bailey.

We already have Owen picked out for our boy's name, if we are having a boy. If it is a boy and in the future our next baby is also a boy, I want to name him Bailey.

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

awww yay!! bailey has been my favorite boys name for many years now.

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

Ever since my old favorite show Party of Five back in the day, I've loved the name Bailey... also where I first heard the name Owen too, coincidentally lol

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

Like Ashley, Lindsay was a boys name first. Bailey is nice..but the name of a dearly loved pet, so everytime I see that, I think of a Shih Zhu :P

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

i get that a lot..."oh that sounds like a dog's name!" because i also like the name chance :)

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

I've never warmed to Casey for a girl, but love it for my male rabbit.

There are some names that have gone so far into 'girl territory' or just absurdly popular for girls that I can only really see them as female names; otherwise I tend to prefer unisex names on boys. Particually 'surnames' and such (though Harper is 'all girl' to me as my main association is Harper Lee).
All those girls being given trendy Mc- or -son names drive me nuts, as those pre/surfixes mean 'son of', y'know as in a male child. *rolls eyes*

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

as those pre/surfixes mean 'son of', y'know as in a male child

haha yeah good point

[trivher.livejournal.com]

Most unisex names I love for boys. A few examples....

Sidney
Taylor
Avery
Teagan
Morgan
Ariel
Blair
Dana
Jody
Mackenzie

For Lindsey I think it works for both genders quite well. I think of Lindsey Buckinham (I think that's his name) from Fletwood Mac.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I like jamie for a boy but not for a girl. I like aaron for a boy but not erin for a girl. there's probably more...

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

I really hate Kerry for a boy. Mostly because my name is Kari and I don't want to think that it's a unisex name. :P

Bailey is definitely a girl's name for me, but I can go either way on Jordan. I like Jordan better for a girl, but it's ok on a boy I guess. I don't think Lindsey works for a boy at all. Way too feminine nowadays.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I used to like Jordan and Taylor for girls, but this was when I was like, 15. Now MOST Jordans and Taylors are girls and I don't like it. Bailey, to me, will always be nothing more than a name for a DOG.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

ps; what comm was this? am I allowed to ask that?

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

sure.. ask_me_anything :)

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

I like Jordan for a girl. Jordan is a female character in The Great Gatsby and I love her. I don't like it for a boy -- it sounds very "boy band."

[http://users.livejournal.com/espoir---/]

Thank you! haha My name is Jordan (I'm a girl. I'm 19) and I love my name. Growing up I was told Jordan was a boy's name (which it mostly was at that time) and I hated it. I was actually named after the character in The Great Gatsby... my mom was an english teacher.

[jojodancer77.livejournal.com]

Im Jordan also. I am 21, and I had another girl and then a boy in my class at school. Personally I love my name bc not many people my age have it. Yay for Jordan's!!

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Jordan- dislike it for either sex, but prefer is on a boy.
Bailey- way to cutesy for anyone above the age of 5, only on a girl!
Lindsay- I hate hate hate this name on anyone!

I love Quinn for a girl, not so much on a boy.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

i like bailey for a boy too. makes me think of the tv show "party of 5". i think his character was bailey, anyway...

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i cannot stand the name jordan, for either sex. i feel the same way about taylor. hate them with a passion. sorry. i know im not really addressing your question.

i had a boss named lindsey. loved him, still love the name.