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Shandie_725
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While we're on the subject of names...*vent*
Shandie_725
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I don't understand how people can take a name for a boy but change it to a feminine spelling for their daughter. I will give you the perfect example: My name.
It's Shaun, spelled the "feminine" way. But, unfortunately I wasn't born with boobs or long hair. Until I was 16, I was still mistaken for a boy on first look. When DH and I first got engaged, the first response people had to MIL was that they didn't know he was gay. Now that I'm an adult, I fight with my insurance company over pap smears and (my personal favorite) my first pre-natal visit. I call companies for job applications, loans, etc. I'm told that they will need Shaun to call back to discuss the account.
Now that I'm 25, my parents admit that they should have thought it through more thoroughly. They loved the name at first sight and wanted it for their daughter before I was born.
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Re: While we're on the subject of names...*vent*
I have never met another female Shawn, Sean, Shaun, Chone, etc. I've only met boy Shawns.
I know what you mean! Not my name personally, but my dad's name is KIM.
He was put in the girls gym class and nearly voted Homecoming Queen in high school (someone wrote his name in as a joke, and when it appeared on the ballet everyone voted for him--it was down to him and one other girl!!) Also, we have had insurance problems...bank problems..etc. etc. I took my dad to a Dr's appointment last week and the nurse started asking me all the inital evaluation questions..my dad kept answering and you could tell she was really confused so my dad finally said, "I'm Kim." to which she was mortified and tried to backpedal...look lady, happens all the time:)
The worst part is my dad was the youngest of 3 with 2 older sisters...
so, it was Brenda, Cindy and Kim....which everyone thought was the third girl. Now, I know Kim is sometimes used as a boy's name, but Kimberly (Kim for short) is WAY too common of a girl's name
So, that being said...hubby and I have honored my father's lifelong request of names that are DISTINCTLY boy or girl...nothing ambiguous. I don't want my child to suffer as their grandpa did:)
This. I understand. My name is Cassi. Not Cassandra, not Cassie, just Cassi. Besides the spelling problems I endure, I also understand about "proving" your name. My Dad's name is William and he goes by Bill. My Mom said that it can be a pain sometimes and they wanted to eliminate that for me. She said when she calls places sometimes she doesn't know if the name is William or Bill.
Right after she tells me all this I go to call my eye doctor to order contacts. They tell me they can't find me in the system. I repeat my name and they say "Cassi? Well, I am looking under your legal name." "Uhh... that is my legal name."
Now I guess we know what not to do to our children!
my name is Jaime. which is a hispanic male name. people would always get it messed up. now the spelling is more popular. crazy as it sounds in my home town they mess up my middle name Leigh too.
I dont like boy names on girls. At all. I have never met a girl named Shawn. Except for that Olympian girl but I never really met her so....
I have to disagree. My name is Jordan and while I sometimes got frustrated as a kid that there were no other girls with my name, I love it now. I would have no problem naming a daughter something that could be boy or girl.
However, I am avoiding names for my son that could be used for girls. Is that hypocritical?
My aunts name is Mikal. pronounced like "Michael".
She struggled with it for a long time, but now that she's in her earlier thirty's she is really happy with it finally. (I've always loved it)