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Help[Opinions] Re: Rowan
in reply to a message by mirfak
I don't think it will ever make the top hundred because I think Hazel will. Hazel and Rowan for a boy entered the top thousand about the same time, but Hazel is now 107 while Rowan for a boy is only 239.
I know of one boy Rowan, the two-year-old son of a friend. When she told me his name, before he was born, I did what I always do IRL when I hear the name of a new or about-to-born baby, which I don't like--I smiled and remained silent. Apparently, however, this is a giveaway that you don't like the name, because my friend then laughed and said, "Oh, nobody likes it." She should hang around here.
I don't think it's masculine enough, so I don't like it for a boy. When I said this to my daughter, she said, "I don't want to call you old, but younger people today don't worry about masculinity in boy's names." So I'm happy to represent the Geritol set.
I know of one boy Rowan, the two-year-old son of a friend. When she told me his name, before he was born, I did what I always do IRL when I hear the name of a new or about-to-born baby, which I don't like--I smiled and remained silent. Apparently, however, this is a giveaway that you don't like the name, because my friend then laughed and said, "Oh, nobody likes it." She should hang around here.
I don't think it's masculine enough, so I don't like it for a boy. When I said this to my daughter, she said, "I don't want to call you old, but younger people today don't worry about masculinity in boy's names." So I'm happy to represent the Geritol set.
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"younger people today don't worry about masculinity in boy's names."
LMAO. Nor about femininity in girls' names! I don't want to call any younger people naive, but naming boys with names that are not conventionally perceived as specifically feminine, still IS worrying about masculinity in boys' names.
Anyway for years I thought Rowan was masculine (a name never used for girls, not a name that has "masculine" characteristics) - it never occurred to me that it could be unisex, until I started looking at names on the internet and noticed people were interested in it as a girl name. To me, Rowan on a woman still sounds deliberately un-feminine, sort of like Cedar (or Robin, for that matter, which I also don't feel sounds very feminine for some reason ... and Hazel as well, although that doesn't seem masculine either). I've gotten used to Rowan being unisex, though, and I don't like it less for a boy because of it being unisex.
Are there any names you think of as unisex, that you like for boys?
+ I know I could probably find out by searching the board. I'm being lazy.
LMAO. Nor about femininity in girls' names! I don't want to call any younger people naive, but naming boys with names that are not conventionally perceived as specifically feminine, still IS worrying about masculinity in boys' names.
Anyway for years I thought Rowan was masculine (a name never used for girls, not a name that has "masculine" characteristics) - it never occurred to me that it could be unisex, until I started looking at names on the internet and noticed people were interested in it as a girl name. To me, Rowan on a woman still sounds deliberately un-feminine, sort of like Cedar (or Robin, for that matter, which I also don't feel sounds very feminine for some reason ... and Hazel as well, although that doesn't seem masculine either). I've gotten used to Rowan being unisex, though, and I don't like it less for a boy because of it being unisex.
Are there any names you think of as unisex, that you like for boys?
+ I know I could probably find out by searching the board. I'm being lazy.
This message was edited 4/4/2016, 11:34 AM
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