Where Have All the Boys' Names Gone?

If avoiding androgyny is your #1 goal, you might have to sacrifice the "fashionable" part. The most surefire masculine names are the stodgy classics. In all my name travels, I've yet to meet a little girl named Frank, George or Edward. Barring that, you can just dive in and hope that the naming future will turn out to be different from the past. With parents of boys and girls alike flocking to the same contemporary name sounds, monikers like Jordan and Skyler are starting to find a stable niche as two-sex favorites. We might just learn to share after all.
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There' s a male reporter on Fox news in the morning, that reports from London, named Ashley.

I like Ashley for a boy better than a girl. My brother's name is Brent Ashley (he is now 34) and when we were younger it wasn't a big deal, now it's very faux pas.

We went traditional with our 3 boys...

Maxwell, Jack and Oliver

We felt that there were too many Taylor, Tyler, Hayden, Braydens running around...

In my mother's family, the name Ridgely was always a middle name. However, my grandfather always went by C.Ridgely ****.
When I named my son, I wanted to use the Ridgely but knowing how school systems are I moved Ridgely from a middle name to a first name. All went well until high school. Then, since no one could spell his name right, he switched to his middle name of Warren. Now, fortunately, he's back to Ridgely, but I could have lived with Warren.

Just use the old standbys our grandparents used: Michael, Jack, etc...

I love love love my three boys names.....Aidan. Noah, Reese
And although all can be used as girl names (apparently, although I would NEVER use aidan or noah ), I couldn't imagine them being named anything else!!! I actually thought baby #3 was a girl and had Reese Catherine as a choice....but Reese Daniel it was :)

Whatever happened to the good OLE' Boy names like Goober, Cletus, Jeb, and anyother name that has a 2nd name to it like Billy-Bob. Some other very popular names are Chester, Bodean, Pervis, Bud, and lets not all forget about Cooter. Must be a regional thing Y'All

Have a family member named ashley, when old enough, he changed it.

I wanted to make sure my boys had very manly names so I went with Tyler and Max. Tyler is becoming more common than I would have liked, but I can't see either name ever being used on a girl. People would be more likely to use Taylor than Tyler for a girl.

my brother is Ashley! It is a great name and he is an awesome guy.

there's also Ashley Angel that used to be in the band O-Town. He was always one of the Fan Favorites.

Why is our society so damn sexist that it's totally okay to give a girl a boy's name, but not vice versa? And now if a boy's name becomes popular as a girl's name, you suddenly "shouldn't" use that name for boys anymore? There are several cultures out there that ONLY have unisex names - in other words, they have absolutely NO names that indicate gender, or even pronouns like "he" and "she." Sexism should either be applied in both directions, or not at all.

That's true, but Ashley became one of the most popular girl's names in the early 1990s. It's definitely a girl name now, and naming a boy such now would cause problems later.

I was with you until the whalah. Unless that was sarcasm, you lost all your knowledge credibility. It's Voila.

Just so you know, giving your child a middle name that is the last name of one of the parents is a long time tradition in other countries. There are thousands of people in the Phillipines, etc with the same middle name to honor their mothers.

My funny girl/name boy/name story: My sister named her DAUGHTER after our father, whose name was Theorodre. Her name (on the birth certficate even!!) is Teddi... and all I can think is it's a great stripper name!!.. Teddi Bear.. or something! Go figure!!

And as for those that think Terri is a derivitive of Terrence for a female? NO. It is a nickname for Victoria.

And.. Jamie for a boy is a derivitive of Jamison (Old English). But I've always loved that name for a girl.

And!!!.. My g/f just named her dog Bailey (which I always thought would be a great girl or boy name!!!..

I think... you should name your kid whatever you want (cept don't do too weird of a spelling (like Michelleigh) for Michelle .. cause it will be damn hard for your child in kidergarten when they are trying to learn to read and write english!!