Too feminine?

• 08-30-2009 3:52 PM

  ~ lisamarie ~ Joined on 02-26-2006 Caden~Oct. 2006 #2 Due April 14, 2010 Posts 658	Too feminine? Reply Contact Please give me your honest opinion about this name....does the name Rylan sound too feminine to you? The spelling is obviously masculine, but could it easily be a girls name you think? I do not like unisex names at all.....

• 08-30-2009 10:13 PM

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  Susan3417708 Joined on 05-31-2009 Minnesota Posts 99	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact I like the name, but would consider it a unisex name.

• 08-31-2009 3:04 AM

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  Aleraninde Joined on 08-16-2006 Posts 1,993	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact It's masculine. I prefer the original Ryland, though both are very popular at the moment.

• 08-31-2009 8:40 AM

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  BrittanyandCedsBaby Joined on 07-31-2006 CA Mommy to Gideon, Wife to Cedric, Due 1/22/10 Posts 950	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact I think it's definitely unisex. What about Ryland like PP said? That is a masculine name.

• 08-31-2009 9:07 AM

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  fabgirl04 Joined on 03-17-2004 Posts 176	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact IMO it sounds like a girls name, but thats just me. GL

• 09-02-2009 8:21 AM

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  AmiJanell Joined on 01-16-2007 Dawson Edward Born 7/15/08 Minnesota Posts 1,786	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact Boys name... not feminine at all.

• 09-02-2009 9:54 AM

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  kansasgirl23 Joined on 11-08-2006 Declan Thomas Tripp arrived 7-27-09 Posts 2,046	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact Love it!!!

• 09-02-2009 12:43 PM

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  TERRY2284389 Joined on 02-13-2008 Kendall & Koen's mommy (NC) Posts 284	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact Personally I do not think it is feminine at all ... but then again I don't think Kendall is either (since it does come from the name Ken) but my mil informed me it was a girls name. As you can see it didn't matter to me ... so I say if you like it that's all that matters!!!!

• 09-05-2009 11:39 AM

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  MamaJunebugJones Joined on 05-21-2009 EDD 1/28/10 Posts 192	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact I personally don't like it and would absolutely consider it a unisex name; I could certainly see the name being spelled Reighlyn and being slapped on a girl.  What about Ryan? And to a pp, sorry, but Kendall is a girls name.  I've actually never heard it used for a little boy.

• 09-05-2009 8:10 PM

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  Aleraninde Joined on 08-16-2006 Posts 1,993

  Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact Kendall is a boys name. It comes from a surname, and is therefore male by default. I've known male Kendalls since I was in primary school. Kendall has been in the top 1000 boys names for well over a century now, but has only been seen on girls since the 1960s. It is no more feminine than the other so-called 'unisex' names (e.g. Ryan, Peyton, Carson and Madison) which have only been slapped on unfortunate girls for the past couple of decades at most.

• 09-05-2009 8:59 PM

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  DawninWA Joined on 04-02-2009 Posts 426

  Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact Aleraninde: Kendall is a boys name. It comes from a surname, and is therefore male by default. I've known male Kendalls since I was in primary school. Kendall has been in the top 1000 boys names for well over a century now, but has only been seen on girls since the 1960s. It is no more feminine than the other so-called 'unisex' names (e.g. Ryan, Peyton, Carson and Madison) which have only been slapped on unfortunate girls for the past couple of decades at most. Aleraninde you think you are some higher power on names. I remember you from my daughter Patyon's birth 3 years ago, pretty pathetic you are still acting like you are the know all. I won't even say what I think of the names you suggest. Ryan, Peyton, Carson, Madison and Kendall are all beautiful unisex names and honestly they sound better to me for girls than boys. I do like the name Rylan for a boy, but I was considering it for my daughter as well.

• 09-06-2009 1:38 AM

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  CrissiLovesDylan Joined on 08-24-2007 Washington Posts 723	Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact DawninWA: Kendall is a boys name. It comes from a surname, and is therefore male by default. That logic seems a little flawed. Default? Therefore, you'd also be under the thinking that a name like "Danielle" or "Christina (my name)" are boy's names, simply because the surnames, or root names are male derived. Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense.

• 09-06-2009 1:42 AM

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  CrissiLovesDylan Joined on 08-24-2007 Washington Posts 723

  Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact Kendall is generally considered a girl's name. My best friend's daughter is named Kendall (we went to her 3rd birthday party yesterday) and in wondering where she and her husband had thought up that name, I found it in my baby name book, and Kendall is under the girl's name catergory. Rylan though, I would consider a boy's name. My son's name s Dylan, only one letter different than Rylan (pronounced differently, but that is inconsequential) and I've never considered Dylan even remotely close to being a girl's name or even a unisex name. If you like Rylan for a boy's name, then name your boy Rylan! It's very cute, and not too feminine at all!

• 09-06-2009 3:58 PM

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  DawninWA Joined on 04-02-2009 Posts 426

  Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact CrissiLovesDylan: DawninWA: Kendall is a boys name. It comes from a surname, and is therefore male by default. That logic seems a little flawed. Default? Therefore, you'd also be under the thinking that a name like "Danielle" or "Christina (my name)" are boy's names, simply because the surnames, or root names are male derived. Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense. You quoted wrong, for the record, I didn't say that about Kendall. I used Kendall for my daughters middle name.

• 09-07-2009 6:29 AM

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  Aleraninde Joined on 08-16-2006 Posts 1,993

  Re: Too feminine? Reply Contact DawninWA: Ryan, Peyton, Carson, Madison and Kendall are all beautiful unisex names and honestly they sound better to me for girls than boys.   May I ask why it's perfectly okay to use traditional male names like Ryan and Cameron on girls, but not John? Why? Why not John? Why not Peter and Christopher and Matthew and Bruce? What makes Ryan, Cameron and Carson any different, besides some people just decided they sounded girly to them? I think 'mierda' sounds like it should be the name of something beautiful. I think Chlamydia looks and sounds like a nice name. Sorry, but aesthetic opinion is a poor reason to gender-bend names. And why doesn't it work the other way around? Why don't we see Emily or Hannah or Catherine being used on boys? There is a huge double standard in naming practices today. For me, whether a name is masculine or feminine or unisex depends on two things: the meaning, and the amount of time it has been consistently used on either/both genders. That is why very old male names such as Vivian, Evelyn and Jocelyn are acceptably feminine and the newer crazes are not. This is also why a name with a meaning like "son of Maud" - with such an explicitly masculine meaning - will never truly be a feminine name, even if it is made so by popularity and time.