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Short version: Paige and Del, both for boys. Not having kids anytime soon.


PAIGE: Okay, when I was in 9th grade, the idea of using Page for a boy occurred to me. I really didn't like Paige for a girl (still don't), but the thought of using a spelling that harkens back to the medieval job title was cool to me. Eight years later, (time flies) Page still is kind of neat to me, but probably not something I would really use. I have no particular tie to the era from which the idea was inspired and it seems too...nouny? made up? I don't know. It hasn't always been on the radar. I forget about it for awhile and then it crosses my mind again and I'm intrigued anew. However, one of the more recent times it crossed my mind, it occurred to me that Paige seemed like it probably really had been a masculine name at some point, that I must have read that somewhere when looking at masc-turned-femme names without really registering it. Well, I looked it up a couple of months ago to confirm because it's been on my mind again, and sure enough, Paige was originally a male name. I felt really satisfied that the male Page/Paige concept wasn't something I made up and that I actually could use Paige if I wanted. I'm a bit enamored with it. I really like the idea of it being used on males, which is status quo for me. I love the "girl" names back on guys, even if I don't like all of them well enough to use myself.

DELL: I love the show due South. I used to watch it everyday after school in 6th grade. There was one episode, a favorite of mine, that featured a boy (age 15? 16?) named Del. At the time, I thought he was quite cute and I really liked his character and the episode and everything, and it kind of made me fall in love with the name Del. (Just looked it up--it was a young Ryan Phillipe, ha!) The only thing is, I don't think I actually liked the name then or like it now all that much; I just like the association and the sort of earthy quality I feel it has. Every time I watch that episode, even now (yay DVDs), I still end up being temporarily in love with the name on some level. My great-grandfather's middle name was actually Dell and I definitely think I like it enough for a middle. I would probably use Dell because it is the spelling with family connections, although it has computer connections as well.

Anyway, I was just wondering what opinions fellow name people had on them.