Posted on 08/26/2016 6:45:36 AM PDT by PROCON
A recent New York Times article noted that celebrity parents are favoring "post-gender" or "gender agnostic" names for their newborns. The piece cites examples like Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, who named their son "Journey," and Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, who named their second daughter "Delta" (their first daughter? "Lincoln").
"Gender-blurring baby names are on the rise among American parents," the article notes.
“The old ‘Boy Named Sue’ idea of a boy being shamed by having a girl’s name is passing away,” Pamela Redmond Satran, a founder of the baby-naming website Nameberry, told the Times. Last December, Nameberry called "post-gender" names (that is, a name given to both boys and girls in roughly equal measure) the biggest trend for 2016. “Today, boys named Tatum feel as cool as girls named Rory, and vice versa.”
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I was almost named Llewellyn. Wiser heads prevailed. (Big Bro and Sis).
She was merely a part time nanny.
0bola’s mythological life as presented in Bill Ayers’ fictional biography is nothing but a myth. I wonder why people think that, after the several years of incredible research threads on FR a few years ago.
What are these people thinking?
Kids are horrible when it comes to strange names and even their initials.
There was a wealthy family in Houston around the turn of the century named Hogg. They named their daughter Ima.
For some reason I keep thinking of the Palin’s kids.
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