[Opinions] Blake, Blair, Briar
More unisex names. What do you think of these three, and which one would you use? If you wouldn't use any, what is a unisex name starting with B you would recommend?
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I love Blake, it's my son's name.
Love Blake on a boy only. Love Blair on a girl. Don't like Briar for either (though I'd assume girl if I heard it). I'd use both Blake and Blair.
I think Blake is okay for a boy, but I don't like it for a girl.
I think Blair is cute for a girl, but I don't like it for a boy.
Briar, I only think of Briar Rose, and if you're naming your kid after Sleeping Beauty, why not just use Aurora?
Out of these 3, I'm most likely to use Blair, probably as a MN.
I also like Blythe for a girl and Bailey and Brogan for a boy.
I think Blair is cute for a girl, but I don't like it for a boy.
Briar, I only think of Briar Rose, and if you're naming your kid after Sleeping Beauty, why not just use Aurora?
Out of these 3, I'm most likely to use Blair, probably as a MN.
I also like Blythe for a girl and Bailey and Brogan for a boy.
Only like Blake and for a boy
I don't love the Bl- sound (I think "bleh"), though Blair is not too bad. I really love Claire, so that adds a positive note to Blair. Blake has always sounded puny to me for some reason. I very much dislike Briar because of a bad association of someone I knew (he spelled his name Breier). So my choice of these 3 is Blair, though it's not a name I'd use (there are too many other names I like more).
I skimmed the list of unisex B names in BtN and there really isn't any that I would use IRL. I like Blythe (not sure why since it too is a Bl- name), but only for a girl.
I skimmed the list of unisex B names in BtN and there really isn't any that I would use IRL. I like Blythe (not sure why since it too is a Bl- name), but only for a girl.
Blake is okay. Especially for a middle name. I know a woman named Blake as well as a couple guys.
Blair: The only two people named Blair that I know of personally are both male, one's about five or six and the other's in his fifties. But it still seems more feminine to me than masculine. I don't like it, it sounds snotty. Blake is okay, but not on a girl.
Briar: This one's another name that doesn't seem ambiguous to me because it has very little history as a name, period. It strikes me as entirely femine, probably because of the Briar Rose thing. I think it's an ugly name anyhow, just sounds really unattractive.
I wouldn't use any of these on a girl. If I had to pick a b unisex name for a girl I'd pick Bobbie/Bobbi. It's fairly cute, actually.
Blair: The only two people named Blair that I know of personally are both male, one's about five or six and the other's in his fifties. But it still seems more feminine to me than masculine. I don't like it, it sounds snotty. Blake is okay, but not on a girl.
Briar: This one's another name that doesn't seem ambiguous to me because it has very little history as a name, period. It strikes me as entirely femine, probably because of the Briar Rose thing. I think it's an ugly name anyhow, just sounds really unattractive.
I wouldn't use any of these on a girl. If I had to pick a b unisex name for a girl I'd pick Bobbie/Bobbi. It's fairly cute, actually.