Menu

Girls’ Names: What’s your style? Different for boys and girls?

Girls’ Names: What’s your style? Different for boys and girls?

Today’s Question of the Week is a two-parter:

Last week we talked about naming styles for boys, now it’s the girls’ turn.

With girls’ names, there are even more style preference category possibilities.  How would you characterize the names you like best?  Girly girl, boyish, or truly gender neutral names?  Classic, biblical?  Vintage Old Lady?  Trendy, nouveau? Family or surname names?  British-inflected, international?  Creative?  Quirky? Eclectic? Exotic? Good girls or bad girls?   (These are just a few suggestions–we’d love to have your own designations of your style.) 

Now that you’ve looked at your taste in names for both genders, do you see more similarities or disparities?  For instance,  do you find that you judge boys’ and girls’ names by different criteria?  Is a family connection more important for a son?  Can girls’ names be more fashionable than boys’?  Is a nickname name more okay for a girl?

About the Author

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at InstagramTwitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.