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Help[Opinions] Re: Gillian on a boy?
in reply to a message by Frollein Gladys
No, I've never seen Gillian as a man's first name. I haven't heard it pronounced with a hard G either.
However, my own name book also lists Gillean (hard G) as a masculine Gaelic name meaning "servant of St John" and lists Gillian (masculine, hard G) as a variant of it. It says Gillean is rare and almost exclusive to Scotland.
So either it's the same book, or the same original source?
Anyway, where I live it is certainly not a unisex name. Gillian is Jillian and feminine, and using a hard G is a naive error. The hard G isn't wrong - the word gill has one, after all. But that's not the convention I know for Gillian.
I think a man named Gillian prn. Ghillian would not be like a boy named Sue. He'd be like a boy named Meredith prn meREDith.
- mirfak
However, my own name book also lists Gillean (hard G) as a masculine Gaelic name meaning "servant of St John" and lists Gillian (masculine, hard G) as a variant of it. It says Gillean is rare and almost exclusive to Scotland.
So either it's the same book, or the same original source?
Anyway, where I live it is certainly not a unisex name. Gillian is Jillian and feminine, and using a hard G is a naive error. The hard G isn't wrong - the word gill has one, after all. But that's not the convention I know for Gillian.
I think a man named Gillian prn. Ghillian would not be like a boy named Sue. He'd be like a boy named Meredith prn meREDith.
- mirfak
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