i forgot to post about this..

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

a few weeks ago i watched one of my fave youtube stars who does name lists and she did one about boy names for girls and girl names for boys..while i'm all for giving a girl a male sounding name (Emerson is high on my list atm) i'd never really thought much about giving a boy a female sounding name, mostly bc i dont kno of any that i really like that much for a boy..but one of the names she suggested was Clair. now, i love the name Clair for a girl (Clare is my prefered spelling) but i'd never thought it'd work on a boy.

then, i went to my foot doctor's office. there were new doctors in the building and one's name was Barry and the other was a Clair but there was a III after the name..i thought it was a bit strange but then i thought well maybe it's a family thing and just shrugged it off. when i went into the room, i was told that the new doctor would c me and turns out it was a man..soo i didnt want to ask him about his name bc i didnt kno how to approach it without sounding weird (i usually just ask ppl how to pronounce their name if i've never seen it or think it looks interesting, but tbh he might've thought it was strange that i didnt kno how to prounce Clair) soo i waited til after he was done seeing me and i asked the receptionist if it was pronounced like the female version of Clair and she said yes it was..i told her about the video i'd watched and how i'd never heard it on a man b4 and how now i could say i'd met a male Clair..and apparently there are 2 other men out there in the world with the same name, atleast.

have any of ya'll ever met a man named Clair or a man with a female sounding name b4 esp one that is predominitely used for girls?? i dont think i've met anybody else besides this one kid who worked at the grocery store and his name was Aubrey which is the same as my niece.

Comments

[kelpierocks.livejournal.com]

My dad's name is Clair. He was born in 1926. So it's been around a while. :)

[meepshit.livejournal.com]

my grandpas name was Lilith which I've never heard as a male name other than that and he was named after his father. He went by his middle name though because of it haha.

[wolf-shadow.livejournal.com]

Clair is the original masculine form - Claire was the feminine. Both French :)

[redfield79.livejournal.com]

My cousin is an Aubrey Dean and my brother was almost Ashley Scott.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I went to school with a guy named Courtney, which I like. I also like Ashley and Kelly on guys.

[halliwell66.livejournal.com]

I did know Clair was a male name in the past, never meet one.

I know a man in his 30's called Lauren(spelt like that). Plus a boy under 7 called Ariel nn Arie.

Those come to mind as the most confusing but technically like (Kelly, Aubrey, Eden, Skylar, Addison, Harper etc) they were male names, became unisex and now are more skewed to girls.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

I went to school with a boy named Iben. These days it's mainly used for girls.

[seizansha.livejournal.com]

when i was in school there were four Kelly's, three girls and a guy - each spelled differently. my previous manager was named Lin(not a nn) the western writer Zane Gray's real first name is Pearl. not the kind of name you'd use writing cowboy stories. ^^

there are alot of girl names now that started as boy names - Kelly, Shannon, Carol, Mckenzie, almost every one that was/is a last name. hell, just look at the plethora of girl names that are feminized versions of boy names.