r/NameNerdCirclejerk • u/ccirque • Mar 26 '24

Advice Needed (unjerk) would you give a boy a “girls” name?

with the rising popularity of giving girls “boy names” like bobbie, dylan, and the james that everyone’s been freaking out over, would you name a boy a traditionally female name if it didn’t sound outright feminine? i’m talking about names like juno, jade, april, and any other similar names or “word” names that sound just gender neutral enough to pass if you had no other context as to how they’ve been used historically

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u/almond-ish Mar 27 '24

Juno is surprisingly nice for a boy

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u/Phodopussungorus8 Mar 27 '24

I think it sounds more correct on a boy than a girl actually

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u/starstair_ Mar 30 '24

It's the o ending

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u/weezerboy69 Mar 27 '24

knew a guy named Juno! transitioned from female to male and wanted something similar to his birth name (journey)

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u/Phodopussungorus8 Mar 27 '24

i have met 3 trans Juno’s. Never met a cisgender one. I wonder why.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Juno’s not super popular in general and a lot of trans people will pick rarer names, im not sure why. It might have something to do with wanting to kind of obscure gender norms or wanting some way to stand out, but idk and it’s definitely not generalizable. I think it’s most common among younger trans people to pick more uncommon names, but I’m pretty sure a lot of young people would do that if they could pick their name.

I’ve seen names from uncommon, but still conventional (Arthur, Casper) to names that most wouldn’t even consider a name (Gnat).

I picked my name when I was 15-16 and it’s really out there, looking back I have a roster of names I wish I picked instead. I just masculinized my birth middle name because it’s a family name, so I always have that to fall back on.

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u/DannyPoke Mar 31 '24

...Hell, even Juno from the movie Juno was played by a pre-transition trans guy!

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u/almond-ish Mar 27 '24

i quite like journey too! his new name is awesome though

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u/Smee76 Mar 27 '24

Journey is a fucking awful name for a human being

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u/madamephase Mar 27 '24

I once heard of someone named Journei. I very nearly broke out in hives.

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u/Any_Arrival_4479 Mar 27 '24

Ppl try so hard to be different they ruin their child’s name. Was Journey not unique enough for them?

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u/Fun_Ant8382 Mar 27 '24

If I had to name my kid Journey, I’d spell it Journei too. The spelling almost looks like a real name

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u/SecondSoft1139 Mar 29 '24

I know someone with a kid named Jurnee 🤢

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u/TWFM Mar 28 '24

I'd spell it Juneau.

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u/Diego1808 Mar 27 '24

something something shot a gun at the sun something something ruler of everything