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Help[Opinions] Re: Tristan
in reply to a message by Christa S.
Tristan is different from Ashley, Leslie, and Courtney - in my book! - because the latter three are not real names, they are surnames. Tristan is a real name. Converting Ashley from a boys' name to a girls' name is ridiculous, but the ridiculosity started when it was converted to a boys' name in the first place. Girls named Tristan is like girls named James, Altair, and William - real names that parents of baby girls thought would make their girls powerful and distinctive.
I wouldn't use Ashley, Leslie, and Courtney. Nor would I use Mackenzie or Addison. I also do not mourn the loss of Kyle, Ryan, and Riley to girls, since they were not originally boys' names in the first place - that is, i do not mourn them any more than I would mourn any random surname on girls. (I do mourn Logan, but I mourned him for becoming popular on boys too, since Logan is a family surname for me and I find it infuriating how it is used.) But I would use Morgan or Tristan in a second, if I loved them.
I am rather a surname purist. Surnames are amazing when they are family and I think very distasteful when not.
On a totally separate note, girls' names that end in -n really irk me as being masculine and ugly lately. Kristen is weirdly masculine. Lillian I can picture on a boy easily. Alison always makes me uncomfortable.
I wouldn't use Ashley, Leslie, and Courtney. Nor would I use Mackenzie or Addison. I also do not mourn the loss of Kyle, Ryan, and Riley to girls, since they were not originally boys' names in the first place - that is, i do not mourn them any more than I would mourn any random surname on girls. (I do mourn Logan, but I mourned him for becoming popular on boys too, since Logan is a family surname for me and I find it infuriating how it is used.) But I would use Morgan or Tristan in a second, if I loved them.
I am rather a surname purist. Surnames are amazing when they are family and I think very distasteful when not.
On a totally separate note, girls' names that end in -n really irk me as being masculine and ugly lately. Kristen is weirdly masculine. Lillian I can picture on a boy easily. Alison always makes me uncomfortable.
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