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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
I have never heard of a girl called james and while it wouldn't by my first choice if they like it good for them.
I wanted to name my DD Sam or even Charlie but I couldn't convince myself to do it plus DH wasn't thrilled with the idea  and using the full name wasn't an option cause I personally don't like naming a kid one thing just to call them something else.
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I love it! I have a cousin who's middle name is James and I think its adorable! But then again, I could give a crap less about "gender-typical" names.
Emerson used to be a boys name and now its one of the most popular girls names. I'm just glad they didn't stick the poor little girl with a stupid name like Apple or Banjo!
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Its not horrible but not a fan...it could of been worse. Maybe she will go by jamie. Jamie could be either boy/girl.
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Mu daughters middle name is James - so obviously I see no problem with it!
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
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I hate when people give girls boys names. It is asinine. Also I hate that it is only girls that get boys names.
Would you name your son Olivia?
With so many beautiful girls names I don't know why you would do that to your child.
To each his own. Seriously, what does it matter what someone else chooses to name their kid?
If you like traditional, gender specific names......... yay for you! I just wouldn't be so rude as to call it "asinine" because other people name their children differently.
I think you are setting your kid up for difficulty giving them an obviously BOYS name.
Every single time a girl named James sends in a resume, registers for school, etc, people will assume that it is a BOY. Why set your kid up for that kind of confusion. Every single time a girl name James applies for a job, people will think she is a boy. She will spend her entire life correcting people. It fine if you like the name and want to name your kids something "unique" and "special" but good lord - these kids have to live in the real world. . Its the same with unusual spellings. Why set your child up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves. There are social and societal implications.
You're making a bigger deal about it then it is.
My DD is Emerson, my son is Grayden. I've had to point out girl or boy when giving their names, who cares though?? Once someone knows they are a boy or a girl the "confusion" is over.
Again, you can think it's stupid and asinine but it's rude to insult everyone else who doesn't feel the same. I LOVE my kids names and have not one regret for choosing names that aren't gender specific.
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
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I hate when people give girls boys names. It is asinine. Also I hate that it is only girls that get boys names.
Would you name your son Olivia?
With so many beautiful girls names I don't know why you would do that to your child.
To each his own. Seriously, what does it matter what someone else chooses to name their kid?
If you like traditional, gender specific names......... yay for you! I just wouldn't be so rude as to call it "asinine" because other people name their children differently.
I think you are setting your kid up for difficulty giving them an obviously BOYS name.
Every single time a girl named James sends in a resume, registers for school, etc, people will assume that it is a BOY. Why set your kid up for that kind of confusion. Every single time a girl name James applies for a job, people will think she is a boy. She will spend her entire life correcting people. It fine if you like the name and want to name your kids something "unique" and "special" but good lord - these kids have to live in the real world. . Its the same with unusual spellings. Why set your child up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves. There are social and societal implications.
You're making a bigger deal about it then it is.
My DD is Emerson, my son is Grayden. I've had to point out girl or boy when giving their names, who cares though?? Once someone knows they are a boy or a girl the "confusion" is over.
Again, you can think it's stupid and asinine but it's rude to insult everyone else who doesn't feel the same. I LOVE my kids names and have not one regret for choosing names that aren't gender specific.
Now I would not even question that Emerson is a girl's name and Grayden a boy's name.
Now last year, DD got a list of names of the kids in her class so we could address our Valentine's. I had bought gender specific ones for the boys and girls.
One name was Keegan and I couldn't for the life of me figure out boy or girl.
I asked DD and she said boy, but I just didn't trust a 3 year old so I actually emailed the director to ask.
Sure enough, boy.
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Again, you can think it's stupid and asinine but it's rude to insult everyone else who doesn't feel the same. I LOVE my kids names and have not one regret for choosing names that aren't gender specific.
Then why be so defensive? Its an internet message board, who cares?
I guess its fine to call celebrities looks masculine but god forbid you think their kids name is masculine.
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
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I hate when people give girls boys names. It is asinine. Also I hate that it is only girls that get boys names.
Would you name your son Olivia?
With so many beautiful girls names I don't know why you would do that to your child.
To each his own. Seriously, what does it matter what someone else chooses to name their kid?
If you like traditional, gender specific names......... yay for you! I just wouldn't be so rude as to call it "asinine" because other people name their children differently.
I think you are setting your kid up for difficulty giving them an obviously BOYS name.
Every single time a girl named James sends in a resume, registers for school, etc, people will assume that it is a BOY. Why set your kid up for that kind of confusion. Every single time a girl name James applies for a job, people will think she is a boy. She will spend her entire life correcting people. It fine if you like the name and want to name your kids something "unique" and "special" but good lord - these kids have to live in the real world. . Its the same with unusual spellings. Why set your child up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves. There are social and societal implications.
You're making a bigger deal about it then it is.
My DD is Emerson, my son is Grayden. I've had to point out girl or boy when giving their names, who cares though?? Once someone knows they are a boy or a girl the "confusion" is over.
Again, you can think it's stupid and asinine but it's rude to insult everyone else who doesn't feel the same. I LOVE my kids names and have not one regret for choosing names that aren't gender specific.
It isn't a big deal to you, but what is to say it won't bother the child when they are older? ( for the record I don't mean specifically your children's names, I think those are clearly boy/girl names. I'm talking about names like James for a girl)
My brother has a name that is a variant of a more common name.. think "Drake" instead of "Jake" ( Not the actual name) So when he introduces himself for the first time people ALWAYS hear "Jake" and it can sometimes be uncomfortable to repeatedly correct people. He has learned to just answer to "Jake" and doesn't bother correcting people anyone because it drives him crazy. 
I just think what doesn't bother the parents doesn't always mean it won't bother the child that is actually stuck with the name for the rest of their lives. Like Apple and North West
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
I think it's hilarious that you people can say a baby name is stupid and get flamed but you can call a celebrity ugly, trashy, etc and that is totally cool.
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
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I hate when people give girls boys names. It is asinine. Also I hate that it is only girls that get boys names.
Would you name your son Olivia?
With so many beautiful girls names I don't know why you would do that to your child.
To each his own. Seriously, what does it matter what someone else chooses to name their kid?
If you like traditional, gender specific names......... yay for you! I just wouldn't be so rude as to call it "asinine" because other people name their children differently.
I think you are setting your kid up for difficulty giving them an obviously BOYS name.
Every single time a girl named James sends in a resume, registers for school, etc, people will assume that it is a BOY. Why set your kid up for that kind of confusion. Every single time a girl name James applies for a job, people will think she is a boy. She will spend her entire life correcting people. It fine if you like the name and want to name your kids something "unique" and "special" but good lord - these kids have to live in the real world. . Its the same with unusual spellings. Why set your child up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves. There are social and societal implications.
You're making a bigger deal about it then it is.
My DD is Emerson, my son is Grayden. I've had to point out girl or boy when giving their names, who cares though?? Once someone knows they are a boy or a girl the "confusion" is over.
Again, you can think it's stupid and asinine but it's rude to insult everyone else who doesn't feel the same. I LOVE my kids names and have not one regret for choosing names that aren't gender specific.
Now I would not even question that Emerson is a girl's name and Grayden a boy's name.
Now last year, DD got a list of names of the kids in her class so we could address our Valentine's. I had bought gender specific ones for the boys and girls.
One name was Keegan and I couldn't for the life of me figure out boy or girl.
I asked DD and she said boy, but I just didn't trust a 3 year old so I actually emailed the director to ask.
Sure enough, boy.
Really? You're in the minority. I get asked A LOT "boy" or "girl". I'm use to it though. I knew what I was getting into naming them the way I did. 
I wouldn't be sure about Keegan either, I've heard it used both ways. My DD has a little girl in her class named "Allexson". I wasn't sure about that one and had to ask my DD if it was a boy or a girl.
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
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I hate when people give girls boys names. It is asinine. Also I hate that it is only girls that get boys names.
Would you name your son Olivia?
With so many beautiful girls names I don't know why you would do that to your child.
To each his own. Seriously, what does it matter what someone else chooses to name their kid?
If you like traditional, gender specific names......... yay for you! I just wouldn't be so rude as to call it "asinine" because other people name their children differently.
I think you are setting your kid up for difficulty giving them an obviously BOYS name.
Every single time a girl named James sends in a resume, registers for school, etc, people will assume that it is a BOY. Why set your kid up for that kind of confusion. Every single time a girl name James applies for a job, people will think she is a boy. She will spend her entire life correcting people. It fine if you like the name and want to name your kids something "unique" and "special" but good lord - these kids have to live in the real world. . Its the same with unusual spellings. Why set your child up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves. There are social and societal implications.
You're making a bigger deal about it then it is.
My DD is Emerson, my son is Grayden. I've had to point out girl or boy when giving their names, who cares though?? Once someone knows they are a boy or a girl the "confusion" is over.
Again, you can think it's stupid and asinine but it's rude to insult everyone else who doesn't feel the same. I LOVE my kids names and have not one regret for choosing names that aren't gender specific.
It isn't a big deal to you, but what is to say it won't bother the child when they are older? ( for the record I don't mean specifically your children's names, I think those are clearly boy/girl names. I'm talking about names like James for a girl)
My brother has a name that is a variant of a more common name.. think "Drake" instead of "Jake" ( Not the actual name) So when he introduces himself for the first time people ALWAYS hear "Jake" and it can sometimes be uncomfortable to repeatedly correct people. He has learned to just answer to "Jake" and doesn't bother correcting people anyone because it drives him crazy.
I just think what doesn't bother the parents doesn't always mean it won't bother the child that is actually stuck with the name for the rest of their lives. Like Apple and North West
Unfortunately (or fortunately) everyone has to deal with the name they were given. People have issues even when their names aren't weird or different.
My first name is Kristen. Fairly common and easy......I think. However, I was constantly called Kiersten, Christian, Christine. And don't even get me started on my last name...........NOBODY ever pronounced it right.
You can't win!!
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I think it's hilarious that you people can say a baby name is stupid and get flamed but you can call a celebrity ugly, trashy, etc and that is totally cool.
Absolutely! 
You can call a celebrity (or even their baby) gross, disgusting, unattractive, ugly, masculine, what does their lover see in them?, etc etc. and people will type up 8 pages worth of "it's just a message board, get over it, who cares, we're entitled to our opinion, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, etc."
But... God forbid you say something about their kid's name being stupid... people jump all over it and internalize it because it seems EVERYBODY is naming their kids some trendy name today (that's why you get 15 xyz's in a class nowadays - Rule #1: you can never have too many "y's" in a name nowadays, feel free to have the "y's" replace all other vowels in the traditional spelling of the name so your kid is "unique" and a bit "rebellious"! lol). But, all of a sudden it's "how rude are you to comment about a kid's name?" etc.
Oh the hypocrisy! I kind of find it hysterical!
FTR, I don't care what a celeb names their kid. If they can get away with "Northwest" and "Moxie Crimefighter" and still legally allowed to reproduce.. I don't think James is any stranger. Just pointing out the obvious.
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I don't care for the name at all, but she will probably go by Jamie which is fine,
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I like this name for a girl but my husband doesn't like it. I first heard it on Friends when Rachel wanted to name her baby girl James but Ross said no.
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Interesting. I would never in a million years think someone named James might be a girl. I see tons of confusion in her future which would annoy the heck out of me as either the parent or the person with the name. But I guess this is the trend now. Didn't Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis just name their daughter Wyatt? I'm not a fan personally but I guess it's ok, at my job I see the CRAZIEST names you could ever imagine, so James seems pretty harmless.
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I have a name I like... Spring... Winter needs to hurry up and get out of here. I think everyone has some Cabin Fevah!
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why am I seeing breaking news that they just revealed the babies name on my news feed 
first when is it ever breaking news what a celebrity calls their baby and second they obviously a month late on their breaking news
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why am I seeing breaking news that they just revealed the babies name on my news feed
first when is it ever breaking news what a celebrity calls their baby and second they obviously a month late on their breaking news
Haha. It was breaking news back in mid February when I posted. It's only breaking news bc Ryan finally confirmed it.
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
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I hate when people give girls boys names. It is asinine. Also I hate that it is only girls that get boys names.
Would you name your son Olivia?
With so many beautiful girls names I don't know why you would do that to your child.
To each his own. Seriously, what does it matter what someone else chooses to name their kid?
If you like traditional, gender specific names......... yay for you! I just wouldn't be so rude as to call it "asinine" because other people name their children differently.
I think you are setting your kid up for difficulty giving them an obviously BOYS name.
Every single time a girl named James sends in a resume, registers for school, etc, people will assume that it is a BOY. Why set your kid up for that kind of confusion. Every single time a girl name James applies for a job, people will think she is a boy. She will spend her entire life correcting people. It fine if you like the name and want to name your kids something "unique" and "special" but good lord - these kids have to live in the real world. . Its the same with unusual spellings. Why set your child up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves. There are social and societal implications.
You're making a bigger deal about it then it is.
My DD is Emerson, my son is Grayden. I've had to point out girl or boy when giving their names, who cares though?? Once someone knows they are a boy or a girl the "confusion" is over.
Again, you can think it's stupid and asinine but it's rude to insult everyone else who doesn't feel the same. I LOVE my kids names and have not one regret for choosing names that aren't gender specific.
It isn't a big deal to you, but what is to say it won't bother the child when they are older? ( for the record I don't mean specifically your children's names, I think those are clearly boy/girl names. I'm talking about names like James for a girl)
My brother has a name that is a variant of a more common name.. think "Drake" instead of "Jake" ( Not the actual name) So when he introduces himself for the first time people ALWAYS hear "Jake" and it can sometimes be uncomfortable to repeatedly correct people. He has learned to just answer to "Jake" and doesn't bother correcting people anyone because it drives him crazy.
I just think what doesn't bother the parents doesn't always mean it won't bother the child that is actually stuck with the name for the rest of their lives. Like Apple and North West
Unfortunately (or fortunately) everyone has to deal with the name they were given. People have issues even when their names aren't weird or different.
My first name is Kristen. Fairly common and easy......I think. However, I was constantly called Kiersten, Christian, Christine. And don't even get me started on my last name...........NOBODY ever pronounced it right.
You can't win!!
Funny you should say that. Having the name Kristen also, I have very strong opinions on this subject.
I knew of 2 other Kristens until I went to college so I always thought it was weird. I swore when I had a baby I would NEVER name my kid anything unusual, with a weird spelling or that is gender neutral. I have spent my entire life spelling my name for people, saying "No, no, NOT Christian", etc. It's so annoying to me. My maiden name is very generic sounding but has a different spelling and that has been the bane of my existence. Every diploma, certificate, etc. has been spelled wrong no matter how many preemptive steps I took to prevent it. I always swore I would marry a Smith or a Jones to get away from it but instead I got a more complicated name. Hate it.
My vow has been that my kids will be named names that are spelled the normal way (i.e. the way you find it spelled on key chains and shot glasses in tourist spots) and that when my kid is on a list for school or sends a resume, the gender is immediately known.
I don't think a girl being named a traditionally boy name is as bad as a boy being named a girl's name, like Kelly or Jody. It's emasculating IMO. I also dislike when people name their DD Ryan and then spell it Ryanne. Now DD gets to spend the rest of her life saying 1. "no, I'm a girl" and 2. "No, not Ry-Anne, just plain old Ryan, like a boy". How annoying!
Okay, I'll hop off my soapbox now. 
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That should be fun for her....
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I can't even or I can, actually imagine what 2 pages worth of replies could say on this topic... But here's my reply: I'm not a fan of this trend where people are giving children gender-neutral or gender / switching names. I feel like they're more interested in a fad than what will happen to the child later on. I'm surprised that Blake didn't change this considering she has a boy name!
Now I can go read other responses,
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Re: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds baby name 'revealed'
I think the whole secrecy thing of her name was just silly....its not that now we know her name that she is in some way violated. Celebs need to get over themselves already...plus I do think that with all the girls names out there I would never choose to name a DD James but probably James will be running in circles with apples and bananas and north west's so she will be fine! Its just silliness all around.
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I hate when people give girls boys names. It is asinine. Also I hate that it is only girls that get boys names.
Would you name your son Olivia?
With so many beautiful girls names I don't know why you would do that to your child.
To each his own. Seriously, what does it matter what someone else chooses to name their kid?
If you like traditional, gender specific names......... yay for you! I just wouldn't be so rude as to call it "asinine" because other people name their children differently.
I think you are setting your kid up for difficulty giving them an obviously BOYS name.
Every single time a girl named James sends in a resume, registers for school, etc, people will assume that it is a BOY. Why set your kid up for that kind of confusion. Every single time a girl name James applies for a job, people will think she is a boy. She will spend her entire life correcting people. It fine if you like the name and want to name your kids something "unique" and "special" but good lord - these kids have to live in the real world. . Its the same with unusual spellings. Why set your child up for a lifetime of having to explain themselves. There are social and societal implications.
Oh my god yes.
While I do not regret naming my son Cailen (it was in a baby name book in the boys section and it's Gaelic for warrior) I did not anticipate how many people would assume it's a girl's name!!! Birthday parties we have had for him where parents sent in pink presents, doctor appointments being confirmed for my daughters appointment next week, preschool orientation where his cubby was decorated with the butterfly instead of the frog.... On and on.
It got to the point where Cailen would tell people "Cailen... I'm a boy!" When people asked him his name when he was little (he'd hear me say that over the phone when making appointments).
Now, it doesn't help that he has crazy long hair so people don't even need to hear his name to call him "she, her..." Etc.
ETA: I think the assumption that people who want unique names are trying to be trendy. Some people are different and unique without making an effort. Their lifestyle and their children's names may reflect that. Saying that someone's unique choices are stupid or shouldn't be brought onto the kid is a silly thing to say. I think following a short list of appropriate kids names is limiting, in my opinion. But I wouldn't judge someone's choice. For their child's name. Every parent puts some kind of something on their kids that reflects them. A good parent gives a kid the freedom or space to eventually express him or herself.
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On a side note....
It would be a very interesting social experiment to see how employers react when responding to resumes where the woman has a masculine name.
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I actually remember reading something that said girls with typically masculine names were more successful In life
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