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[purple-gaze.livejournal.com]

What do you think of Ariel for a boy?

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[macabre.livejournal.com]

No

[blissurrenderd.livejournal.com]

Way too "disney princess" for me.

[trissyd.livejournal.com]

if he was a boy that had flowing red hair, wore a sea-shell bra and had a fin for legs... perhaps.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I love it.
I pronounce it Ah-ree-el.

[screaming--pink.livejournal.com]

I think he'd be a little mermaid.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

A friend of a friend named her son Luca Ariel. It's grown on me (and he is seriously the cutest little boy ever.) Wouldn't use it for a first name, though.

[purple-gaze.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how I've heard Ariel Sharon's name pronounced and until recently I never associated his name with Disney lol.

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

boy or girl or mermaid, still sounds like areola to me.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I don't associate it with Disney either even though I was obsessed with the Little Mermaid when I was a child.

Oh speaking of Ariel Sharon his nick name is Arik which I also think is really nice.

[abandoneddream.livejournal.com]

hehe

[sorqaqtani.livejournal.com]

I like it.

[trivher.livejournal.com]

I have always liked it

[space-monkey340.livejournal.com]

Totally cool!

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

YES.

[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

It's the name of an impish spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest. I like it.

[imyourrapunzel.livejournal.com]

I think it's fine. I know a boy named Ariel (Ah-ree-el).

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

a la disney :-|

[xanya.livejournal.com]

It can definitely be used for a boy, but probably only pronounced with the long A (ah-ree-el), as others have said.

Although his gender was exactly specified in The Tempest, it's generally acknowledged that Ariel was a boy, so... I don't see the problem with using it.

[septembergrrl.livejournal.com]

I like it and the nickname Ari, but not unless you live in a culture where there are other boys with the name. In America it's too girly.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I think it's nice in theory, but totally not practical. I think a boy Ariel would be teased a LOT in school.

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

No way. No masculine enough