Boys names on girls

[crazybouncycrls.livejournal.com]

Today at the library I met a little girl named Hunter (Which I consider a male name)
and her little sister (about 6months) was Logan (another male name to me).

WDYT?

Comments

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

I personally love boy names for a girl. Logan I've seen a couple of times on a girl and I like it. Hunter (not a fan of the name in general) makes think of the actress Hunter Tylo.

[holidaylights.livejournal.com]

I've seen about as many female Hunters as male, I think. It and Logan aren't really my style for either gender, but I like them just fine on both.

[bonobaby.livejournal.com]

I don't mind them but when I hear Hunter I think of that TV show back in the late 80's early 90's on Aussie ABC TV... his name was Hunter and he used to cruise around on a bicycle.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

CC the cat!!!!

[retrodancekitty.livejournal.com]

To me Logan is androgynous, but Hunter is very male, also considering it is a noun for a male figure, that has a female counterpart, Huntress. I actually might approve of Huntress, I like the sound and Tress could make a lovely nickname.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there was a female hunter word, I've always called all people who hunt hunters regardless of gender. Good to know.

[duck-deluxe.livejournal.com]

I think "Hunter" is a tacky name on anything other than maybe a dog, so boy or girl, I don't like it.

"Logan" will always be a boy's name in my head, no matter how many people slap it on a little girl. It just sounds masculine to me.

[beanxsprout.livejournal.com]

I agree with this comment.
{My son's name is Logan, and I cringe every time I hear it on a little girl}

[vanish.livejournal.com]

I consider them boys' names, as well, and have never met a girl/woman with either name. I like gender-nonspecific nicknames for kids, and while I'm not really opposed to giving a child of Sex A a name that is commonly given to Sex B, I personally don't think it's a good idea due to confusion and setting the kid up to explain her/himself for the rest of their life.

"Yes, I really am a girl, and yes, my real name is Donald. No, I'm not joking."

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I don't like either name on boys, but I especially don't like them on girls.

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

Neither Hunter or Logan are my style. But I am a fan of using boy names on girls. After all, my daughter is named Dylan.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I think Dylan's cute for a girl!

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! =D

[ealexsism.livejournal.com]

Is this a trend, this name for girls? I met another 6 year old Dylan the other day and thought it was adorable.

[autopsycorpses.livejournal.com]

As a girl with a "boy" name, and also a person who despises gender stereotyping, I say, names are just names. Like, the color red would somehow look different if you called it by some other moniker?

Also, names have a way of crossing back and forth over time. Kelly, Lindsay/Lindsey, Whitney, Robin...

I went to school with a girl named Justin (Yes, Justin, not Justine), and I know a girl named Marshall....

I don't buy into gender-segregating names, just like I don't buy into the whole "Pink is for girls, Blue is for boys" bit....

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

For the most part, I agree with you.

I think the issue some people have with boy's names on girls, though, is that they pick the name because they want their little girl to sound 'tough,' thus implying that there aren't any tough girl's names out there. There's some true gender-stereotyping there!

Having said that, I actually do like some masculine or unisex names on girls - purely because of the way they sound, or because I've only ever met girls by those names (i.e. Morgan, for example).

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I had a female friend in hs named Logan (b. 1987), but I still think both Logan and Hunter are very masculine names.

[gipro2003.livejournal.com]

I know a female Hunter and a female Logan, both are about 7-10 yo. I'm not fond of the trend in general.

[coendou.livejournal.com]

Hunter was Logan's little brother in the Baby-Sitter's Club books. Neither works as a girl's name for me, and definitely not for sisters.

[pyrokitten77.livejournal.com]

Do not like. At all. It makes me think the parents wanted boys and when girls popped out, they thought "Well, I really was hoping for a boy. And his name was going to be X. I know! I'll name the girl X!"

Ick.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I love Hunter on girls. Logan, I'm just indifferent to anyway.

[fletwock.livejournal.com]

I'm all for naming girls typically boy names and vice versa, though I don't much care for the name Hunter in particular.

[amyeliz.livejournal.com]

I am endlessly surprised by this community's reaction to gender-bending names. I posted an entry last week about a girl named Eliot Dru and how I thought that it looked like a misspelled boy's name. A lot of people disagreed.

I understand that some people think that boy names on girls are cute, but to do it TWICE (whether with first and middle, or in this scenario, two different children)....I just think it's too much. It comes off as trying too hard to be avant garde.

I dislike Hunter always, but I do like Logan for a boy.

[envysbookshelf.livejournal.com]

My dads secretary is named Justin and it totally fits her. I had a client (female) named Elliot who had a daughter named Charlie, nit shirt for anything. I'm pro male names.

My favorite name for a girl is Archer.

[envysbookshelf.livejournal.com]

*not short

[deathofrats.livejournal.com]

Hunter is my cat. Should not be a human name at all.
Logan is a cute girl name, I prefer it for a girl.

[jessicann00.livejournal.com]

I love them boh for girl names.

[anaphylexis.livejournal.com]

I think their mom watched The Bold and the Beautiful.

I don't really care for boy names on girls, it's just NMS. I don't think it's horrible though.