Taylor for a girl?

Aly226

I made a post a while ago about trying to decide between the names Willow/Willow-Mae, Amelia and Taylor and had a few comments about Taylor being a boys name or sounding more like a last name and I was just wondering whether that was a common opinion.

Do you think of the name Taylor as a boys name or a girls name?

Also was considering Taylor-Mae, Taylor-Rose Or Taylor-Jane and wondering whether people thought that made it sound better and more feminine.

Spin313

My niece is named Taylor. It's not a name I would choose (and it feels a bit 1990s), but it's not cringe worthy or anything.

DawnJM25

Taylor could go either way. It's a boy name IMO but I know more girls named Taylor than boys.  It's also a last name. I would never use this on a girl, or at all, but especially not on a girl.

zebrapanther1311

I used to be a substitute teacher and I met so many girls named Taylor. I probably met 20. Plus my name is Mary Taylor(no hyphen, my whole first name).

I don't bat an eye when I see it on a boy but it's really hard for me to not automatically think girl since I am a girl with this name.

ashiscute

I think girl but my SIL is named Taylor.  I would definitely not hyphenate it.  I think it's just a name where people aren't going to be 100% either way.  I don't love it and I do not care for Willow.  I like Rose and Jane as first names.

marthah05

I have come to realize that names are whatever gender you see fit. I have three nieces (out of 9 kids, 3 nieces and 6 nephews) all having boys/girls names.
Mackenzie (meaning son of Kenneth)
Taylor
Teirnen (He is of the earth)

Helenahhandbasket

I will dissent and say I think girl first, but I do know one man (he's in his early 30s) named Taylor. 

I like it-- and it happens to be my sister's middle name.  I am not sure how I feel about a hyphened double name, but if you just went with Taylor and did Mae as the middle, I think that would be lovely.

melody921

I know way more girl Taylors than boy, so I think it has swung over, right or wrong. I am not a fan of hyphenated first names. I'd go Willow.

AZMommy1234

The only boy Taylors I know are my age or order. All the younger ones I know are girls.

I don't like it at all for a girl; there is absolutely nothing feminine about it. And I wouldn't use it on a boy since, unfortunately, it seems to have gone to the girls

kikimeemee

I always think 'girl' for Taylor. Only male Taylor I know was on "Gilmore girls" and it always struck me oddly.

4N6s

I know more girl Taylor's than boy Taylor's.

greysweatshirt

Willow by a landslide.

 I know 4,000 Taylors... all little girls... I even know a Taylor Madison and it makes my heart ache slightly... Its not so much that it's a boys name, it's just so ultra popular where I am... I also think TaylorMade when I see Taylor-Mae. The hypenated first name also just seems like a royal pain in the butt...

 

ProfessorMcGonagall

MH name is Taylor it's all boy to me. I like your other names so much better for a girl

chapstix7

marthah05 said:

I have come to realize that names are whatever gender you see fit.

I have come to realize that names are essentially words. You can't change the meaning as you see fit. A dog is still a dog whether you call it a dog or a cat. Ryan, Addison, James etc etc etc are boy names whether they be on boys or girls.

koalaberry

I grew up with one Taylor....she was a girl. Ask them if they've heard of Taylor Swift! It's been a girls name for quite some time now. It is a bit of a unisexed name but if you are find with that then I say go for it.

blu-eyedwife

I know girl Taylors and I still think of it as a boy name

divinemsbee

It's just so very very 90s trendy to me.

Also, Taylor-Mae is awful. Entirely too cutesy and country.

Pretty much every other name on your list, Rose, Jane (love Jane, so underused these days), Amelia, even Willow (NMS, but not bad) are better. I actually can get behind Mae as a first name, but it's NMS in the middle and I hate it as a double-first. I'm not a huge fan of double-firsts, there are very few that I think don't sound either pretentious or cutesy. Taylor doesn't lend itself well to a double-first at all.

Dr.Loretta

Agree it's too gender-ambiguous. And adding a girly hyphenation just looks like you're trying to hard.

Not to mention I live in New England. That name is butchered up here

Dr.Loretta

marthah05 said:

  Teirnen (He is of the earth)

Is it really spelled this way?

capulet

I don't know any Taylors, but it sounds very masculine to me.  I like Willow much better for a girl.

mommie2bof6

My neice is taylor jordan I like the name for girl I'd do tyler for boy.