Favourite names

[pax-morgana.livejournal.com]

My list of favourite boys', girls', and unisex names. In no particular order. (Note: some names in the boys / girls section are actually unisex, but I only like them for one sex or the other, hence my categorizing them by sex.) Warning: huge lists ahead.

BOYS
Lauren / Loren
Evelyn / Evelin
Aubrey
Arthur (one of my middle names)
Samuel
Jesse
Isaak / Isaac / Izaak / etc.
Elijah
Ezra
Gabriel
Raphael / Rafael
Misha
Sasha / Sacha
Mikhail (not Michael)
Alexei / Aleksey / Aleksi / Alexi
Nikita(s)
Ashley / Ashleigh
Mordred

GIRLS
Fawn
Eva / Ava
Susan
Eliza / Liza
Elisabeth / Elizabeth / Ersabet / Elisaveta / etc.
Betsy
Anna / Anne / Annie
Marie
Alice
June
Marine
Maryse
Araceli
Marianthe
Zoë / Zoï / Zo(o)ey
Marisol
Victoire
Maggie
Magda
Winifred / Winnie / Fred
Saoirse

UNISEX
Morgan (my first name)
Quin(n)
Winter
Alison / Allison
Whitney
Shelby / Shelbie
Milo
Alexis (my second middle name)
Willow
Fin(n)
Gwyn(n) / Wynn
Kay(e)
Leigh / Lee
December
Ariel / Aeriel
Isidore
Yael / Yaeli

Comments

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

You know that Lauren, Evelyn and Aubrey are generally girls names, right?

[pax-morgana.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. All three of those were men's names first (among several others in my list), and later became popular for girls. So, technically, they are unisex.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

My understanding is Loren=boys, Lauren=girls. Also, you have Allison listed under unisex. That's another where spelling counts. Allison is a boy name, meaning son of Allen and Alison is a girl name, from the french diminutive for Alice.

All my knowledge comes from the internet and may be incorrect. the above is just what I've read.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

Behind the Name says that Lauren was originally a diminutive of Laurence, which is very logical looking at the spelling, so it was a masculine name first.

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

I never thought about that, but that does make sense.

[pax-morgana.livejournal.com]

Please remember that the posting was simply my opinion on the names. You don't need to tear me apart about it. Relax. Adding an extra L to "Alison" for a boy is hardly the most ridiculous naming gaffe in the world.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

I'd have to say Allison, Evelyn and Lauren may have once been boy names, but they are mostly girls names now. Hearing any of those, I would assume the person is a girl, and I would find it weird to learn that any of them are boys, as I think girls names on boys are kinda weird. Might not be the most ridiculous naming gaffe, but it's up there.

If you like a name, you like a name, and that's the bottom line, but I see a lot of those names and I think "girls' names" and I think a lot of other people would think that too.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? Not only was I not tearing you a new one about anything, I don't even think you made a gaffe. You listed both spellings of Alison and listed them under the unisex category. I was simply telling you an interesting tidbit that I had read online. I really didn't mean any offense, and I definitely don't think you made any type of gaffe.

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that Allison was originally male, although to mean "son of Allen" does make sense; everyone I know with that spelling is female.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I live in the UK and I've never met a female Aubrey. Over here it's the kind of name you only really see on older men.

[houndofloki.livejournal.com]

Loren I could get behind as a unisex name, and Aubrey actually sounds male to me (maybe the other commentor is thinking of Audrey, which is a girls' name)

Evelyn, though, yikes. I think naming a boy Evelyn would be sentencing him to a lifetime of torment ._.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Any boy called Evelyn... he'd need to be pretty good in a fist fight.

[karohi.livejournal.com]

Agreed! :/

[pax-morgana.livejournal.com]

My reasoning for that is in homage to the novelist Evelyn Waugh, a man. I had never heard of it for a boy before that, but it got me to thinking, and I decided I really liked it.

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

Aubrey actually sounds male to me (maybe the other commentor is thinking of Audrey, which is a girls' name)

I actually went to college with an Aubrey and an Aubrie, both females. Just throwing that out there.

[roxtarrr.livejournal.com]

Aubrey is Drake's first name :D