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Help[Opinions] um, Ciarda....
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If you aren't into masculine names on girls, please compose your unisex list of unisex names only. :-D I am only taking issue with one of this list, but there are many on it that are conventionally male.
The name Merrick is not, in fact, "unisex." Please, please don't spread this misinformation.. It has perhaps been given to a few hipster girl-children on the West Coast, and adopted for themselves by a few hipster women, during the time that Anne Rice's vampire books were popular .. but Anne Rice's usage was unconventional, and literary; in fact, there have been a much larger number of girls born named Campbell. There were more female than male Campbells named in 2004 (in the US).
By the way, as far as I have been able to determine, the name Merrick is not specifically a surname name. It is an Anglicization of the Welsh form of Maurice, and it also happens to be an English surname. (Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I haven't been able to find out) Many people have never heard the first name but they have heard the surname so they assume.
Thanks.
- chazda
The name Merrick is not, in fact, "unisex." Please, please don't spread this misinformation.. It has perhaps been given to a few hipster girl-children on the West Coast, and adopted for themselves by a few hipster women, during the time that Anne Rice's vampire books were popular .. but Anne Rice's usage was unconventional, and literary; in fact, there have been a much larger number of girls born named Campbell. There were more female than male Campbells named in 2004 (in the US).
By the way, as far as I have been able to determine, the name Merrick is not specifically a surname name. It is an Anglicization of the Welsh form of Maurice, and it also happens to be an English surname. (Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I haven't been able to find out) Many people have never heard the first name but they have heard the surname so they assume.
Thanks.
- chazda
This message was edited 11/1/2005, 7:22 PM
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Haha, I wouldn't use the majority of those names on girls. I originally made the list for Mo6 when she was trying to find a name for Hollis, and I haven't really sorted through it since.
Most of the them are not considered Unisex, I know, but then again I wouldn't consider Kyle & Logan unisex either and was trying to compile some of the more untraditional names for her.
Thanks for the info and the suggestion though. I had forgotten that Merrick was used by Anne Rice. I've never been a fan of hers, despite the fact that she writes in my favorite genre.
CIARDA"Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh
name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson." - Mark Twain
Most of the them are not considered Unisex, I know, but then again I wouldn't consider Kyle & Logan unisex either and was trying to compile some of the more untraditional names for her.
Thanks for the info and the suggestion though. I had forgotten that Merrick was used by Anne Rice. I've never been a fan of hers, despite the fact that she writes in my favorite genre.
name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson." - Mark Twain
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Whew, okay. Good old Mo..
Sorry for sounding so prissy about it. I guess you're quite familiar with how the tiaras come out when we hear someone using our favorite boy name for a girl. Heh. I'm no exception!
(I'm not a Rice fan either. Her stuff is too glammy and glossy for me. If I want to read something dark, I want it to be dark - not like a trip to Hot Topic.)
- chazda
Sorry for sounding so prissy about it. I guess you're quite familiar with how the tiaras come out when we hear someone using our favorite boy name for a girl. Heh. I'm no exception!
(I'm not a Rice fan either. Her stuff is too glammy and glossy for me. If I want to read something dark, I want it to be dark - not like a trip to Hot Topic.)
- chazda
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