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Please don't. It's not just that I have a male cousin named Declan. It's the fact that the pool of traditional male names is shrinking faster than the North Pole. Please, think of parents of little boys and stop pinching from their list. Names like these that haven't gelled as either male or female in the general public's mind (at least here in the U.S.) tend to stay feminine once a trend begins. If it went the other way around I might not mind so much.

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Besides, there's nothing remotely feminine about Declan on a girl, to me. How about:

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Liadan Jennifer I'm really starting to dig the flow of this one)
Sian / Siobhan Jennifer
Gwenllian Jennifer
Rosslyn Jennifer
Murron Jennifer
Etain Jennifer
Aisling Jennifer
Nolwenn Jennifer
Olwen Jennifer
Eibhlin Jennifer
Roisin Jennifer
Elin Jennifer ("EH-lin" or "AY-lin")
Briallen Jennifer

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I cheated and mixed in some Welsh and Scottish names.

This message was edited 8/4/2010, 4:47 PM