Avery is still a boy's name too!

[nikkiARNGwife]

I know it's popular for girls now..which is fine..but today I found 2 cute personalized little items and the only "Averys" they had were pink! It was originally a boy's name so why don't they offer it in blue too?!

Oh and no offense to any girl Avery's we may have here...I just want some blue Avery stuff too kwim? lol

[Leila]

Nikki, I run into the same problem with personalized items for Devin too! Technically Devin started as a place name (and Avery was a surname before it was a first name), but really? PINK?? D's amenable to it, but I'd prefer a more neutral color genderwise---green, yellow, red. Pink and blue are just not cool.

[Laura_A]

I always find "riley" stuff in blue... irks me. lol

[LeeAndra]

The day I found a personalized trinket with my name on it... I'd die.

[melmos75]

I feel the same way Nikki as I have an Avery too. Avery is a form of Alfred so it is still very much a boys name. I also run into this problem with my oldest, Jordan. The only one of my boys' names that I haven't seen used for a girl is Carter. *Yet* anyway.

[mlewis]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I've never found any kind of name pieces for my two: Camden and Rory.

[alansrock]

Originally Posted by LeeAndra

The day I found a personalized trinket with my name on it... I'd die.

Me too, you can find my name but it's always spelled differently (I am JAMI and most things are Jaime or Jamie); my mom just had to spell my name without an "e".

[BrattyMeg]

I hear ya on the name things...

I have a Camdyn too Melissa but I had to add my Y lol....
I have Nichole, Jase, Camdyn, Ryleigh, and Teaghan...yah we have nothing personalized unless I have it done myself lol

[nikkiARNGwife]

I guess it's just a little irritating b/c when I picked out Avery (several years before I was even pregnant with him) it wasn't common and it was most definately a boy's name. I just know when you look at names for boys vs names for girls there's like a million zillion names you can choose for a girl vs the much smaller selection for boys kwim...but if boys names keep becoming girls names there won't be any left lol!

You want to know something funny..my grandmother's name is Mary George lol..she was the youngest of 8 girls and her father, knowing she'd be the last was determined to name one of his children after himself lol..so she's Mary George

[ditzyscrap]

I'd only heard Avery as a girls name up until recently, lol...DH's cousin's 8-year-old daugter is Avery...

ETA: When DH and I were in the business of picking names (lol...ie pregnant) he would REFUSE any of the boy names that had turned into girl names...like Taylor, etc. I thought they were cute, lol...

[lizzyfizzy]

this sort of thing annoys me too. people just don't *get* it.

[Paula]

I've never heard of any girls named Avery. My sister had the same problem. Her name is Geri and there is nothing personalized with that spelling.

[aggiefamily]

I don't have that problem but I can never find anything with Lance on it.

[Sarah8914]

yeah, i don't know any girls named avery (and only one boy!). but, that stinks!

[lovely1m]

I used to host a name message board, its very much in right now to use boys names on girls, like Avery, Riley, Reese, etc. So, yeah, its gonna be tough on the boys who had these names.

My name is Mari (mahr ee) and I never found things with my name on it as a kid, ever. But my son is Nicholas, his I almost always find. lol

[cheltzey]

I'm afraid I'm one of those annoying people with a girl Averi. My best friend growing up (so this was over 20 years ago) was named Averi, and I always thought that Avery with a y is a boy and Averi with a i is a girl. But now Averys are both. But it's still pretty uncommon, so you've still got that going for you at least!

ETA: And I've NEVER found anything personalized with Chelsey. It's always spelled Chelsea.

[Shawna Clingerman]

arrrrghhh! my biggest pet peeve EVER as a mom of four boys, is the whole girls stealing boys names... it's just NOT FAIR girls have so many cute names already! why do we have to give them our nice names too!!!

lol -ahhhh! yeah... I'm a bit insane on this particular point... but YOU try to find four masculine and unique names for FOUR boys and then see if you don't go over the edge as well

(btw - avery WAS the boy name we had intended for tennyson, but then we met like three girl averies in like one week)

LOL, seriously no offense to the "girls named boy" out there (i actually used to think it was the cutest thing ever) but I swear I nearly went off the deepend trying to name my poor boys... thank the lord i am done...

[rachaelsscraps]

[QUOTE=ditzyscrap;368626]I'd only heard Avery as a girls name up until recentlyQUOTE]

Same here. I've always thought it was a girls name only- I've never heard of it as a boy's name. Growing up, I had 2 (girl) friends who were named Avery, and my former boss' daughter was also named Avery.

(don't hit me *ducking with head covered* but I think Avery sounds more like a girls' name. But that's just my opinion. I also have a younger brother named Riley, which I think is better as a girl's name, but it seems more popular as a boys'.)

*I'd say, that with the bi-gender names, whichever you hear of first is probably the gender you'll think the name is best suited for.*

[lovely1m]

In case you all haven't found this site, but its the Social Security Admin's site where they give you the most popular names for each year. Its super interesting! http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ 2008 will go up around Mother's Day.

Avery was ranked #48 in 2007 for girls and #221 for boys. Pretty popular for both sexes, but more so for the girls.

[nikkiARNGwife]

I wrote down the name Avery as a name I loved for a future son of mine in my journal when I was in college back in 1994 and had to read Charlotte's Web for my children's lit class. The little boy in the book's name was Avery and I just fell in love with it..and that book was written in 1952..so to me it was a boy's name way before it was a girl's name. Until very recently I've only ever known of one other Avery and he's about 79 years old lol. Now all of a sudden though there are girl Averys everywhere. I guess, the reason it bothers me is like what Shawna said...there are SO MANY cute names for girls out there...why take all the boy names too? But I get that it's trendy and it's now a unisex name...but so many people seem to think it's only a girls name which is what bugs me about it kwim? I don't want DS to grow up thinking I gave him a girly name.

BTW..I hope I'm not sounding snarky about this b/c I'm not meaning to lol...

[mlewis]

[QUOTE=nikkiARNGwife;368823I don't want DS to grow up thinking I gave him a girly name.

BTW..I hope I'm not sounding snarky about this b/c I'm not meaning to lol...[/QUOTE]

I've got the opposite problem - Rory is a girl, but so far every official appointment she's had, the receptionist/appointment person on the phone has assumed she's a boy.