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

[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.