A very annoying trend that has only started within the past 100 years is the naming of little girls with boy names. For example, names like Ashley, Hilary, Aubrey, Jordan, Augustine, etc. are being used as girl names. This phenomena appears to be the result of modernism sinking its teeth into the world.

How often do you hear anyone naming their boys with girl names? Many boys with "girly" names these days don't actually have girly names at all. They have names that were manly until the modernists decided to change everything. So what's with this practice? No one gives their boys girl names so why do they do the opposite to girls?

Don't give your children the names of the opposite sex. That's ridiculous. Some people justify doing this by deciding in the microcosm of their own mind that the names aren't really masculine. They're "unisex". Please.... :smash-pc:

What's much more common, and much more ridiculous, is giving boys AND girls LAST NAMES for a first name.

Hunter, colton, pearce, mckenzie, etc.

No name is too "last name" for people to choose it for a first name.

Fortunately my last name is that of a great, early saint. Had my father and mother have been married, I would not have this profound Catholic name. Even though it is a female name and a first name, I am thankful for it.

From a recent CNN story:

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Abigail Carter, her son Carter and her daughter Olivia have been living on a payout from the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund following the death of her husband Arron Dack.

So the wife didn't change her last name -- and they chose the wife's last name for the son's first name.

Stupid!

I know, it's incredibly stupid. What's wrong with giving people actual names? I would want my boys to be named with boy names and girls to be named with girl names, not the other way around or with giving them last names as first names. That's stupid.

I agree with all these comments.

What has happened to traditional names like, Starshine, Moonbeam, Venus, and Tiger?   :confused1:  (All names given to children in the 1960s.)

It never occurred to me to give any of my children names that were saints and sounded normal in an American household.  Yes, I'm afraid we have no child named Polycarp Athenasius.

A very annoying trend that has only started within the past 100 years is the naming of little girls with boy names. For example, names like Ashley, Hilary, Aubrey, Jordan, Augustine, etc. are being used as girl names. This phenomena appears to be the result of modernism sinking its teeth into the world.

How often do you hear anyone naming their boys with girl names? Many boys with "girly" names these days don't actually have girly names at all. They have names that were manly until the modernists decided to change everything. So what's with this practice? No one gives their boys girl names so why do they do the opposite to girls?

Don't give your children the names of the opposite sex. That's ridiculous. Some people justify doing this by deciding in the microcosm of their own mind that the names aren't really masculine. They're "unisex". Please.... :smash-pc:

How about Stevie!   Ive heard it for a girls name several times.

Ashley and Hilary seem more like girl names to me, but not Aubrey, Jordan, or Augustine. You're right Daegus, it's just plain ridiculous to give girls names that are more suited for a guy. Next thing you know, they'll start naming girls things like "Brad" or "Craig". Sure wouldn't surprise me...

Daegus, this rigid insistence on Ashley and Hilary etc. being male names might be faux-traditionalism, kind of like "sitting on chairs = tradition". I wonder if PereJoseph could weigh in, he seems to have a good handle on this sort of thing.

Just wondering of those who don't like the boy/girl switch-a-roo... what do you think of feminizing a male saint's name when naming a daughter? (Johanna, for example)

I would not see this as a problem at all.

But maybe this whole topic should be seen in a wider perspective. E.g. the name Andrea is a perfectly masculine name in Italian, while being in feminine in most other languages or countries.
And definitely don´t forget "Maria" as a second name for males.

The same for the length of hair. I seems to me that long hair for men was the ordinary thing during most of the centuries of Christendom (there is even a liturgical comb for the Priests hair!). Short hair was more a sign of poverty or serfdom. at least in the Celtic and Germanic areas.
 
The fashion of shorter hair really started in the middle of the 19th century - maybe as a final brake with the whole old order? At least in Germany, the revolutionaries of 1848/49 threw braids in bonfires as a sign of a political change away from "antiquated traditions".

One of the last famous Catholics with longer hair might be the Holy Cure of Ars.