Or vice versa even. What I mean there is a name that's traditionally male rather than female, although there's a feminine variation.

I knew a boy called Lindsey who was teased about his name, because where I come from, Lindsay (note the spelling difference with the female version of it) or Lynsay is considered more a girl's name than a boy's.I don't know how many times I heard him tell people it was Lindsey with an “e”. Apparently Scotland and Australia are the only countries where it's commonly recognised as a boy's name.

I don't think I would - life's hard enough for kids without opening them up to teasing through something they can't do anything about.  I still think it should be up to the individual parents to choose what they like. Maybe in future the lines will blur more anyway to where the roots of a name in whatever gender won't be of any great significance. One thing's for sure, I never forgot him or his name so if nothing else it was memorable.

I did give my girl a boy's name … Courtney.  In the US it tends to be more traditionally used for girls, but we do run into many male Courtneys through soccer (football).

I think many names can be unisex and there are boy names I think would be beautiful as a girl's name … like the name Evan!  I would love to have one more girl so I could name her that.

We actually have a close friend that named her daughter Rikki and I have never heard anyone give her a hard time about it.  I wonder if it's just because here people are so used to hearing unisex names??

I think it's important to think out your child's name and the impact it may have on them, but I also think we shouldn't OVER think it.  Some kids are mean spirited and will find an issue with ANY name.  My mom had a student with a name I find appalling … her first name was Ophelia, which alone, I think is beautiful, but her family name was Bredst (sounds like breast) and together the names are very sad to grow up with.

LOVE the name Ross!

Courtney is one of those names that originated as a boy name - in England maybe? - but has been taken over as a girls name here.  Like the name Carol.  It originated as a boy's name … which I never would have known if I hadn't grown up with a boy whose middle name was Carol - as was his father's and his grandfather's.

I don't know if you listen to stand up comedy much, but Lewis Black does a skit on baby names.  He talks about a few that are spelled out one way, but pronounced another … I don't know that they should be mentioned here (lol)  but he says that one mom named her child Abcde … and he said that it was the ONLY one that he could understand … because the mother had been in labor for 100 hours!!  After all that, you should have the right to name your child anything you want