What do you think of the name...

LillyBug923

Bostyn Emily for a girl? Yay or nay?

Erin Mary Ackerman

a joke yes?

The people of Boston are collectively wailing and nashing their teeth at the thought of your UNEEK spelling of their fair city.

Why not St. Louisa? Keep your crazy close to home, I always say..

LillyBug923

BrahimBride:

a joke yes?

The people of Boston are collectively wailing and nashing their teeth at the thought of your UNEEK spelling of their fair city.

Why not St. Louisa? Keep your crazy close to home, I always say..

Actually, Im serious.....

nikinoodles

Definitely not my style. You took a word, and made it into a name (or so how it appears to me). Also, my friend has a dog named Boston....I think if him, and the city when I see the word.

Sorry.

MandC17

No offense, but Boston looks really ugly spelled that way. Emily is pretty though.

LillyBug923

nikinoodles:

Definitely not my style. You took a word, and made it into a name (or so how it appears to me). Also, my friend has a dog named Boston....I think if him, and the city when I see the word.

Sorry.

Boston is a boy's name. It's a "real" name.

beth thacker

I actually like it. It's different and I like different. I'm not too big on the spelling, i'd leave it spelled Boston instead of with a y.

KimmyB111304

I don't like that at all...maybe it's just the spelling that's throwing me off though.

Corinneallyson

As I am from New England, I like the actual spelling "Boston," I'm not a fan of random y's....

I think of it as a boys name though.

jnealet

Bostyn isn't really my style.  I think you're going to set your child up for a lifetime of misspelling and having to explain her name.

PianoPlayingSarah

Well, I love Emily  - one of my girls is named Emily - but I'm not really liking Bostyn - not my style.  Don't know if it's b/c I live there or b/c it is very nontraditional.  It would be cool if there was a story behind it - like you and your husband met there....

jkelly41

JMO- I think Boston for a boy isn't bad, but I'm not a fan of untraditional spellings and this might be a little too masculine for a girl. 

JoyGotDots

I think it would be fine spelled at Boston.  Could you give us a little background on why you want it spelled Bostyn?  Boston is an uncommon enough name and I think using an alternative spelling brings it from uncommon and interesting into a joke.

cranberry27

Is Boston a special place to you for some reason? ?Did you meet your DH there? ?Because I guarantee every conversation is going to go like this:

"What's your/her name?"

"Bostyn"

"Bostyn?"

"Yes, like the city."

"Oh, are you from there or something?"

Then cue the explanation, which won't go well if the answer is "My mom just liked the name." ?People will not be satisfied and it will be a pain.?

I had a friend growing up named India - she finally started telling people her parents put a map on a dartboard to decide on her name.

If she's already got to explain her name to everybody, don't make her tell them how to spell it too. ?Go with the actual city spelling.

Mike&Care

I agree with the last response. Go with Boston or another name.

smismar

PLEASE think about how this will look on a resume in 25 years.  She will NEVER be taken seriously.  Can you honestly imagine hiring a lawyer named Bostyn?  Boston is bad to begin with (and if it's a name, it's for a boy), and then you turn it into an a$$-spelling with a y.  Don't do this to your daughter.

(And you probably shouldn't be asking if you don't really want to hear the answers.)

IU_baby

Honestly?  It's terrible.

justawickedone

I like Boston, but only for a boy.

MarriedBestFriends

Please think of a ?professional woman named "Bostyn". You can't picture it? Neither can I. It screams "my mom and dad wanted to make up a name with a 'y' in it to be trendy in 2009".?

EXL311

It sounds too masculine to me.  Just like Soleil Moonfrye named her 2nd DD Jagger because she wanted her to have a unisex name.  I have no clue how either of those names could possibly be unisex.

LittleMamaB

Random y's make me want to gouge my eyes out. The name isn't bad, the spelling is.

I would get so pissed off when people asked me if we were going to spell our son's name "Myles". Uh, no. We're going to spell it normally, thanks.

Jen2004

smismar:

PLEASE think about how this will look on a resume in 25 years.  She will NEVER be taken seriously.  Can you honestly imagine hiring a lawyer named Bostyn?  Boston is bad to begin with (and if it's a name, it's for a boy), and then you turn it into an a$$-spelling with a y.  Don't do this to your daughter.

(And you probably shouldn't be asking if you don't really want to hear the answers.)

cabana1

Nay. NMS and it sounds like a boys name.

jaredswife

for a girl, I think it is absolutely awful! 

Boston is a boys name, if it is a very good name at all.  But, for you to spell it like that to make it a girls name is terrible.  It looks really ugly that way. 

Emily is pretty though.

KarlsSweetie05

I like Boston for a boy even though its NMS.

KoCoLoCo

Sorry, all I can think of is a Boston Steamer.  That would be my nickname for him/her.  Definitely nay.