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[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I'm watching "Quintuplet Surprise" on discovery health right now.

6 kids total.

Eliot
Ryan
Lila
Brooklyn
Britain *Edit* Excuse me. Britton.
Jack


Oh, by the way. The first 5 kids I named? GIRLS. Yes, Eliot and Ryan are girls. This is an American Family. Those poor girls are in for HELL.

Funnily enough, their MALE OB? Kaylen.

Heh.

Comments

[cosmianaut.livejournal.com]

I have a female friend named Ryan and I don't think anyone has given her hell for it. I also like Eliot for a girl but that might be because of my love for Scrubs. :)

Also, Lila and Jack are two of my favorite names.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

In my 25 years, I've never met a female Ryan. It still surprises me as a girls name. Eliot as well (don't watch Scrubs, but I am an SVU fan, so my immediate reaction is "like...Stabler?" haha). And then to toss in Brooklyn and Britton? IDK... lol.

[cosmianaut.livejournal.com]

Right. That's completely understandable. I know one and she's from a set of twins. Maybe that has something to do with it. Haha. :)

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I knew a girl Rian pronounced Ryan, and met a Ryanne once too.

Never just straight Ryan though.

To me any spelling of it is masculine, but I might be biased since its my husbands name. :)

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I've seen the first five on many, many girls before. I hardly think they're in for HELL. I go by a boy name, and no one has ever once teased me for it.

[cosmianaut.livejournal.com]

I do too. I don't even remember being teased in school.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, are my older two just on the wrong playgrounds? Because kids with "different" or "weird" or "wrong" names are VERY often teased relentlessly.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I guess they are in the wrong area. I've been dani my whole life, and even just being introduced to other kids on playgrounds, birthday parties, school events, recitals, whatever... I have never ever once been made fun of for my name.

my friends, charlie, ryan, blake, daryian, andi, logan, alex and randi were also never teased.

[mamiesgoo.livejournal.com]

I've never honestly seen/heard anyone teased more than a harhar for a name, my BF is Savannah, and past the Georgia reference she gets not much else.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

the only name teasing I ever witnessed was "lol your name is kind of different" or "haha your name rhymes with some silly word" but it was never in a "fuck you I'm a bully" kind of way.

I totally had a friend named kelsey pickens and we all called her kelsey pickens her nose and omg it was so funny. it still makes me giggle. I actually just lol'd typing it.

[mamiesgoo.livejournal.com]

lol.

I know a Mike Jones, our senior year and to this day at least one person posts that damn song once a week or so. ;)

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I knew a dude named chris gains and when you say it in the right tone it sounds just like "I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH" so I was always saying "enjoy yourself" or "fuck yo couch!"

[mamiesgoo.livejournal.com]

LMAO. "I'm dead bitch"

:-c

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

he did the best dave chappelle rick james laugh too. and when you're high, stuff like that is hilarious.

[mamiesgoo.livejournal.com]

I would have no idea.

*shifty eyes*

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

nor would I.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Weird! And *I* got teased for BETTY. What the unfair hell. LOL.

[theljfromheck.livejournal.com]

my name is mariah... normal, right? i got teased about it a lot. huhhrr. damn names. my kids have somewhat different names, i hope they dont get teased for it. :/

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I got teased for Betty as a kid. What the hell!

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'm a Georgia who goes by George and no one had ever bugged me.

And my friend in elementary school had a younger sister named Elliot. It worked beautifully on her.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I have a female cousin named Ryan.

I'm a Scrubs fan, too, so even though Elliott was our boy name, I like it on a girl, too:)

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

I like Elliott and Ryan on girls and I tend to have fairly traditional tastes in names. Not fond of the spelling Eliot, though.

Brooklyn and Britton really big me. Ew.

Love Lila.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Lila brings back my SVH days, lol.

[mamiesgoo.livejournal.com]

Addison is Addison Elliot Rose. Addison is traditionally a male name, Elliiot also obviously.

I'm Jamie, Alex is a guy we have unisex names from the 80s and get mixed up as the mrs/mr on papers all the time.

I really like strong masculine names on girls with a softer name.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I know where Adds gets her middle name from. <3 I never knew Addison for a boys name! I've so far only seen the Madison/Addison/-dison names on girls (although I have also often seen them as last names).

I usually think of Jamie as being female and Jaime as being male.

[lower-class.livejournal.com]

So who is to say that these "poor girls" don't have a similar reason for why they are named?

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

You can honor someone all you want. When its a name that can potentially get them teased a bunch, stick it in the middle name slot.

And I'm going to bet there wasn't a "Great Grandma Brooklyn", either.

[mamiesgoo.livejournal.com]

I was all for Elliot being her first name.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Awww, she's so not an Elliot-first-name though. She's very Addison!

[mamiesgoo.livejournal.com]

Really cause we call her Elizabeth about 90% of the time.

Actually we call all 3 elizabeth.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Hey! Name thief!

[frost.livejournal.com]

I only like Eliot (that spelling looks weird) and Ryan on boys.
I hate Lila and Brooklyn...and, well, Britton, now that I've heard it.

[frost.livejournal.com]

*thinking*
Hmmm. I -really- like Ryan on boys. Shame it seems to be used on girls a lot nowadays. =/

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

My nearly 9 year old godson is a Ryan! :-) There is some hope left. RECLAIM THE NAME! haha

[taleofaredhead.livejournal.com]

I prefer male names to stay male and female names to stay female, but that's just my preference. Isn't one of David Beckham's sons named Brooklyn?

Britton is silly.

[chadwah.livejournal.com]

Hilary for a boy?

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Ryan would be pronounced Ree-AHN here, and I've seen it on a woman once...yet I agree, I like it so much better on boys. Elliot as a girl's name is a guilty pleasure of mine, but I prefer that on boys too, by far. Lila is pretty awesome, but Britton and Brooklyn are ugly, in my opinion.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

On the show it was definitely the regular "male" pronunciation. I had thought the quints were 3 girls, 2 boys until I noticed that during a little photoshoot 4 of them had huge flower headbands on. Made me kinda go "wtf".

I would like Ree-ann much more!

[longlostblue.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just too traditional, I am not a fan of giving boy names to girls.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

LOL, the general consensus around here has changed SOOO MUCH.

[chadwah.livejournal.com]

I've met two female Ryans in my life -- one of them would be about 12 now, the other is about thirty (my cousin-in-law). Don't think either one of them had any trouble with it, honestly. Haven't heard Eliot for a girl but I could get used to it, especially with the Eli- beginning.

[chadwah.livejournal.com]

I should also say that my daughter's name is Ezra Grace :)

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

Additionally, "Britton" doesn't strike me as feminine. While I don't think they're "doomed" (they're certainly better than some of the crazy names that show up in here), I think they're going to be subject to a lot of confusion.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

I know a female Ryan, and it kind of fits the girls I know with the name. Never actually met a girl named Eliot, but I've seen people on here mention liking it for a girl (Ellie could be a cute nickname!). I love Lila. Britton's not awful, but the only one I knew was a boy. I dislike the name Jack, because... well... I don't know why. But, it's not the worst thing ever, obviously. lol.

I don't get how they used three boy names for girls, a really pretty girly name, and then Brooklyn, which I think is awful (Brooke? Yes. Brooklyn? No). I just feel like Lila, as a girl name, sticks out against the others.