What do you guys think?? Personally, I've been a fan of last names for first names but as I'm considering my own baby girl's name.... I'm starting to waiver. Specifically, "Reynolds" is a family name and I've really liked that for a girl: Reynolds Kirkland. Is that too masculine or is it too much of a surname? Interested in hearing your thoughts.
I'm not a fan of surnames as first names. I don't mind a surname in the middle name spot. I don't think of Reynolds Kirkland as a girl name (nor a boy name for that matter). To me, it doesn't sound feminine at all. I'd prefer 'girl name' Reynolds LN.
I actually like some LN as a FN on boys. DS is Reed which is a common last name. However I really don't like it girls. Reynolds is terrible for a little girl. If you must use it in the MN spot.
Reynolds? Like the aluminum foil? Yeah, no. If it's a super special family name, middle name it. It's really, really bad as a first name for a girl. She's the poor kid that has to live with it for the rest of her life.
I am more okay with last names for first names on boys but have a hard time liking them for girls. If you really like it, I would use Reynolds as a middle name.
When you say last names are you referring to Anglo Saxon names or any ethnicity? There is nothing remotely feminine about Reynolds Kirkland. Chose one of them as the MN and chose an attractive female FM.
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Some surnames as first names are fine, or have firmly migrated into acceptable territory. Surnames as middle names are perfectly fine. Reynolds as a name is bad, and for a girl is terrible.
Yea.... Definitely not in the "if you love it, use it" camp. It's all well and good for you to love it, you don't have to go through life introducing yourself as Reynolds.
If you like it and it has special meaning to you I say use it. It is not one of those weird made up names and a bit unusual is better, in my opinion, than being one of the hundreds of little girls running around with the current trendy names. My daughter's name is Winslow (also called Winnie) and I adore her name and so do so many people who have met her. She gets compliments on her name almost daily! I say go for it.
If you like it and it has special meaning to you I say use it. It is not one of those weird made up names and a bit unusual is better, in my opinion, than being one of the hundreds of little girls running around with the current trendy names. My daughter's name is Winslow (also called Winnie) and I adore her name and so do so many people who have met her. She gets compliments on her name almost daily! I say go for it.
I disagree. I'd rather be one of 15 Charlottes than the only Reynolds. I think you should MN Reynolds if you like it and keep searching for a FN.
I am all for family surnames as FNs, but only if they're suitable for the child's sex. Most surnames sound masculine, and especially Reynolds, which is a familiar if uncommon boy name with an S at the end. Use it as a MN or save it for a boy.
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I like some last names as first names. Unfortunately I think Reynolds is too much with your last name. It's one I would typically think of to use as a first name either.
Anderson Griffin Sawyer Beckett Carter Quinn Dawson Cooper Reid Jackson Greyson Harrison
I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer a real last name as a first name to a made up last name as a first name. Neither is really my style, but if you're going to do it I respect a real name more. So Reynolds is better than, say, Windsor - what my mother in law likes, as if we are British royals or something (!) - because at least it's real.
Reynolds is masculine enough though that I'd only go with it for a girl personally if I lived in the Deep South or some other place where last names as first names are common. I've known southern girls (now in their 30s) named Greer and Campbell, and it seemed to work for them.
Good luck choosing!
Um, I live in the "Deep South," and don't know any girl with a masculine surname as a fn.
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Re: Last names for first names
Reynolds is not a great name for a boy or a girl. I think you can do better.
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Reynolds... No.
But some people have James, bailey, Benjamin, etc as last names which are great first names.
Anderson
Griffin
Sawyer
Beckett
Carter
Quinn
Dawson
Cooper
Reid
Jackson
Greyson
Harrison
These are the more typical ones that come to mind
I guess I just jumped to conclusions with Reynolds
I can see the charming(trendy) appeal to surnames for girls but not these 2 together. Names need balance.
Suggestions:
Reynolds Lilly
Reynolds Edith
Reynolds Margaret
Kirkland June
Kirkland Emily
Kirkland Lenora
What girl names do you like outside of family names?
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