opinions?

[platomapus.livejournal.com]

my boyfriend and i went on a saturday drive this past weekend and drove all around this camp that he and his dad used to go to (and still do sometimes) and all of the roads had very unique names. one, Ira, that i reaaaaaally liked, he didnt. then i saw another that i really liked, Ellis...both for a female, of course. what do you guys think about both??

Comments

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Ellis strikes me as being a very masculine name, too--but moreso than that, a surname. I'm not a huge fan of using surnames as first names (Jackson, Harrison, MacKenzie, and so on) so I don't really like it.

As for Ira--yes, it is traditionally a male name. However, I think many members of this community should keep in mind that a lot of other female names--Lindsay, Hailey, Shirley, Ashley, to name a few--were once strictly masculine, as well. With the -a sound on the end of it, Ira could very well pass as a feminine name, especially since the name itself is largely unknown these days. At the very least, it's not nearly as bad as naming your daughter a name that manes "Son of Kenneth!"

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

*Means. I cannot type, it seems.