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[notmybusiness.livejournal.com]

A few kids' (all under the age of 4) names I've come across lately:

Peter
Asher

George

Spicer (f)


Spicer really threw me for a loop. I'm not sure where the heck it came from or if there is a meaning behind it. It just seems really really weird to me.

Also, WDYT about the name Beau for a girl? I associate it with a boy, but it seems the only people I've ever met/heard of named Beau are girls. Thoughts?

Comments

[annamonster.livejournal.com]

My best friend when I was 4 was a little girl named Bo. What I didnt know until I was much older is that Bo was short for Roberta. I always loved her name. If I named a little girl Bo I would spell it Beaux. But I've never met a single girl aside from my friend named Bo in any spelling.

[notmybusiness.livejournal.com]

I definitely prefer the Beau(x) spelling rather than Bo. It reminds me of Little Bo Peep. Haha. It's a cute nickname though.

[chadam-lives.livejournal.com]

spicer?! Spicer is a company that make bread here in Ireland. Great name there, lol.

I like the name Beau, but I think it should be a boy's name rather than a girl's, wouldn't 'belle' be the equivalent?

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Beau translates to handsome (and beaux for plural), so it's way off on a girl!

[notmybusiness.livejournal.com]

I would think so, yes. It's just strange to me because I recently met a girl named Beau. There is also an actress/model named Beau Garrett. I was thinking of the little girl in the movie Signs, too, but when I looked it up her name was spelled Bo. It's weird because I've never actually met a male Beau before and it is very clearly (to me anyway) a boy's name.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Bo is a girl's name, because it's sometimes used as a nn for Deborah.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

My nickname is Bo, and I'm a girl, but I think it should be a boy's given name if it's spelled Beau, and if it's spelled Bo it's really only a good nickname.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

I like Peter and George. Spicer is ridiculous. And Beau makes zero sense for a girl since it's a masculine word.

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

Spicer is...really bad.
Beau is for a boy.

[mrssubee.livejournal.com]

I've known people with th last name Spicer- maybe it's a family name
but, still

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

same. that's what i was thinking.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Beau is for a boy. Belle/Bella is the female equivalent.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Asher seems to be getting really, really popular.


Bo is a girl's name, and usually short for something, but Beau is absolutely positively a man's name. Ridiculous on a girl. It's meaning in French is also 100% masculine. I can't see Beau on a girl any more than I can see a name like Harry or Keith being a female name!

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Beau is definitely a male name. Naming a girl Beau would be like naming a boy Belle.

WTF at Spicer.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I don't like it, but I have heard of Spicer before -- one of the villains in Titanic was Spicer Lovejoy (although I can't remember him actually being referred to by that name haha).

I love Peter and George, like Asher. Beau on a girl just doesn't make sense.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Since Beau is my favourite name for boys, I really don't see it on girls. I know of girls that are named Beau/Bo, but I don't think that makes it unisex, it's a boy's name on a girl. Kind of weird.

I like Asher. I've only heard Spicer as a surname, so it's really weird as a first name, even more so on a girl, I think.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

In The Netherlands (where I live), Bo/Beau for girls is very common. In fact, it was a girl's name to me until I heard of boys called Beau! It's one of those rare absolutely unisex names to me.

I really like Asher...but Spicer is just weird!