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I have a bit of a vent: Why do parent's keep in hijacking boy names for their baby girls?! Good girl names abound, while good boy names are few. I wanted to gouge out my own eyes when Jessica Simpson announced her baby's name.
If you look at the top 10 baby names for boys, they don't change as drastically as girls name. There just isn't as much acceptable variation. With every baby girl named Maxwell, or Riley, or Ryan, it becomes less socially acceptable for boys to be called those names. I realize that it's a double standard, but could you imagine a boy being named Melissa or Jennifer? To be honest, I think boys names for girls is cute, but it just narrows down the options for parents of boys.
I had a boy last year, and I consider myself lucky.. My husband was John III, so my son became the John IV, although we call him Jack. I didn't have to come up with a name. But my sister had a boy at the same time and it took her a while. She settled on Logan, and guess what? Of the three Logans born at her birth center, one was a girl. Sigh.
End rant.
Favorite Girls Names: Veronica, Isla
Favorite Boys Names: Graham, Miles
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