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[Opinions] Mixed gender combos
One of my guilty pleasures is combos with a masculine first name and feminine middle name, or a feminine first name with a masculine middle name. I just created a poll on some of these combos, which were randomly generated. These are the ones I personally liked best:
Ambrose Eliana
Jacob Julie
Victoria Lias
Calla Shon
Nicholas Sue
Peter Blossom
Ryan Flora
Alma Joel
Miriam Jake
If you had to name a kid using a first and middle name of opposite genders (so no unisex names!) what would you choose? Feel free to comment on mine if you’d like, come up with as many combos as you’d like and have fun!
:)

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I'm not a fan of these names or this idea.
Peter Blossom is adorable!Clement Winifred and Helen Rupert, maybe?
Both of those are cute!
I love this. What a cool idea. A lot of these sound like fn/ln combos too, but sometimes those can be just as inspiring. I love coming across people who have last names that read as traditional female names to me - like Robert Nicole or David Rose, stuff like that. A real life person who has a name like this is Jeffrey Catherine Jones, an artist I came across recently. In their case I think it was because they transitioned, but I loved the cadence of "Jeffrey Catherine" no matter the reason. Ambrose Eliana is wonderful! I love that one. I feel certain that I once knew of someone who named their son William Shasta or something like that - i remember they told me it was in honor of some mountain, but I could only think of shasta daisies, and I loved the idea of a boy with the middle name Daisy. Bill Daisy, super cute!!I'll try to think of more later :)

This message was edited 8/30/2024, 9:29 AM

Thank you! Jeffrey Catherine is lovely, it reminds me of the writer Meg-John Barker. William Shasta is also gorgeous!
Cassian Grace
Edmund Rose
Jasper Ivy
Henry Constance
Peter JaneAudrey Florian
Catherine August
Eva Constantine
Juliet Cecil
Violet Orlando---Peter Blossom is sweet - I can see it as a Telegraph BA. Victoria Lias is pretty, but this feels like cheating since I would assume Lias is feminine. Alma Joel sounds like a Mormon man.

This message was edited 8/30/2024, 5:31 AM

I like Edmund Rose, Henry Constance and Eva Constantine best. I forgot Alma can be a Mormon boys name 😭