[identity profile] pax-morgana.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
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

Date: 2011-11-13 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2011-11-14 12:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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