Reece

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'll use it--it seems to be one of those gender ambiguous names these days, and I've got enough friends with ambiguous names who're known as other things or who have changed their name because of constantly getting mistaken for the other sex, but whatever.

Is Reece lame? For a boy, of course. Is that a particularly bad spelling? I knew a few boys with that particular spelling from childhood, so I doubt it's "uneek", but "Rhys" would make me feel like I were in the SCA.

Comments

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I think it's ok - it's certainly common enough to spell it like that - although personally I don't like it spelled anyway other than Rhys. I've never met a female with the name and I think it would sound weird.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

I believe there's some famous person who's a girl called Reece. I don't follow popular culture as a general rule, so it's got to have been pretty pervasive if I noticed.

Thank you very much. :)

[tokossel.livejournal.com]

you might be thinking of reese witherspoon, the female actress?

isn't rhys a traditional welsh spelling of the name? that strikes me as more masculine, for some reason.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Yeah - she's the only female I've heard of with that name. I can kinda see Reece or Reese working on a girl (though I still see it as more masculine). Rhys would be totally out of place on a girl though. Yeah, it's the traditional Welsh spelling.

[naturalgoddess.livejournal.com]

I prefer Rhys.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

I do also, to be honest. It just seems such a common "I'm a re-enactor!" or "I read too many fantasy books!" kind of a name. And since I used to re-enact and I do read too many fantasy books... :)

[paper-daisies.livejournal.com]

I have a 14 month old (boy) named Reece. We absolutely love it and love it more and more as time goes on. =)

[paper-daisies.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also from what I gathered, Reece spelled "Reese" is supposed to be the feminine version.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Oh, how excellent. Congratulations!

If I may ask: does anybody think of Reece as a girl's name? That's one of my biggest worries.

[paper-daisies.livejournal.com]

Nope, no one ever has. In fact I believe Reece was first a boys name. I'm just not big on the Reese spelling because it reminds me of peanut butter cups, lol.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Exactly! That's what I have against the s, even though we don't have Reese's cups here.

I think it was a boys name first too. :)

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I prefer the Reese spelling.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

I like the spelling Rhys better, but I can see a lot of people going "...Rice? Riss? What??"

Reece looks alright too.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had a mate called Rhys and everybody always looked strangely at his name and he was still getting teased well into his twenties. Very strange.

Thanks. :)

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

Reese.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

I like Reese best.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Sweet, thanks!

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

but I have no idea why she chose Reese

Her full name is Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Having looked, now, at quite a few comments I'm starting to think that Reece definitely looks masculine. :)

While Rhys is all traditional and whatnot, even accounting for my family being Welsh, it's starting to look to me like a "I'm so cool my kid has a y in his name". Which is odd, because my girls name has a y and is traditional, if not Welsh. Bother. Thanks!

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

For a boy I only like Rhys. I don't get the SCA vibe at all. To me, it seems like the normal correct spelling.

Girls (unfortunately) end up with the dumbed up creative spellings. Reece and Reese both land more on the feminine end of the spectrum for me.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm being dumb, but what is SCA?

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

The Society for Creative Anachronism (http://www.sca.org/). The people who dress up in medieval garb and act out sword fights and jousting and royal ceremonies. You often see them at renaissance fairs, taking on other personas who would've lived in 13th century Britain for example. It's all considered very geeky by some though personally, I think it's all a lot of fun.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

The other comment explained it very well, but I should expand that in Australia it's often disrespected as the other re-enactors feel that the efforts of the people in the SCA are very "un-period". ie. They re-enact, but don't put in as much effort to make things as authentic.

Not that it matters either way, but it's somewhat of an insult.

[imaloserbabyxx.livejournal.com]

I like Rhys... and by that i mean "rice".. heh.
I dislike the name entirely..

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Because it sounds like rice? :)

[blush.livejournal.com]

I grew up with two Reece's that were male. Since the only female Reese I've heard of is Reese Witherspoon, the s has more feminine connotations to me.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

The s makes me think of foreign candy. :)

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

I love the name spelled Reese.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Thanks!