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Christie Brinkley has a dd named Sailor, and I've met a little girl named Saylor. I think the word "sailor" is a horrible name for anyone, boy or girl. It's silly and ridiculous, imo. Plus, I can just hear the jokes -- "Sailor curses like a sailor", etc. Spelling it Saylor or Sailer or Sayler doesn't help any, imo, either.

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~Heather~
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix

Well... maybe I'm just a big anime geek, but if I heard Sailor (in any spelling), I'd wonder to myself if that person's middle name was Moon. ;)

Going my way, sailor? What can those parents have been thinking? Ugh.

I find it absolutely painfully atrocious, in any spelling, on any gender.

Personally I much prefer the spellings Sayler or Saylor instead of Sailor for the given name. To me, using the same spelling as the word is like naming the child Soldier or Pilot and is a lot more eccentric than naming the child Sayler or Saylor. Sayler and Saylor are English surnames (actually going back to a Norman French word for "dancer"). There is a well-known mystery novelist named Steven Saylor, for instance. Sayler and Saylor look much more like appropriate given names to me than Sailor does.

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Those of you who are telling the original poster to use the spelling Sailor -- would you tell someone who was considering naming a child Taylor to use the spelling Tailor instead? :)

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http://www.stevensaylor.com/

It's cute, i'd only thought of it for a boy before, and i didn't like it, but it's adorable for a girl. But please spell it Sailor.

I prefer Taylah or Tayla :-)

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Mum to Hayley Anne ;)
D.O.B: 8th October,2004

I'm actually torn about Sailor. I used to not get it but now I'm actually starting to like it. But it's one that I would never use because my boyfriend was in the Navy for 6 years and I think it would be the butt of many jokes to have a daughter named Sailor when he was one.

I like it! I thin it's cute.

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L'Eau Qui Pleure

Still Better than....

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I dont mind a different name...but PLEASE spell it Sailor.

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I doubt Sailor will be used enough to be "trendy". I think its one of those , sounds odd until you know somone you like named "enter name".

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And as i always say, when there's a name "I" wouldnt personally use, but like...id rather have a million sailors than dozen Haylee or Aubrey or Briteny or Mason or Jadens.....Now THOSE are annoying trendy names imo....

I LOVE Sailor on a girl [or boy, but prefer girl], this spelling only

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GO ENGLAND

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GO PORTUGAL

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I Don't care who wins the England V. Portugal match.

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I'll be happy either way!

This message was edited 6/28/2006, 4:21 PM

Sailor is Christie Brinkleys daughters name. I like it a lot actually.

Well, I know Christie Brinkley has a daughter about eight named Sailor. She was the first person to use that name for a girl, I'm sure of it! And now there seem to be lots of people using the name-well, maybe not lots but I do see it pop up here and there. I like it a lot on Christie's daughter but can't see it on anyone else quite honestly. It's just kind of...weird!

Sailor's trendy, and Sayler's just a tryndee misspelling of that. In any form, it's ugly, boyish, babyish (can you imagine a Judge/Mayor/President/Doctor Sayler Smith? or a lover calling out "Sayler!" while lovemaking?), and extremely datable to me. I predict it will be just one of the currently tryndee names that will be seen as Bertha-ish in 50-75 years.

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I'm sorry to be so harsh, but those are my honest feelings.

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Miranda

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