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Help[Opinions] Sky... for a boy
Today I am mad crushing on this little name. Suddenly it seems like a really nice boy's name, it's got some kind of sensitive cowboy thing happening. Y'know how some of those old-timey cowboy movies gave the ruggedly handsome heroes names that would be downright girly and weird nowadays, like Cheyenne and Britt and Vint? It's got that sort of outdated poetry to it for me. What do you think about Sky on a boy?
I've thought of some combos like:
Sky Alexander
Sky Thomas
Sky Edward
Sky Xavier
Sky Nathaniel
Sky William
Sky Theodore
Sky Abraham
like isn't that just so beautiful?! Or have I gone mad!!?
I've thought of some combos like:
Sky Alexander
Sky Thomas
Sky Edward
Sky Xavier
Sky Nathaniel
Sky William
Sky Theodore
Sky Abraham
like isn't that just so beautiful?! Or have I gone mad!!?
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i like it.
I saw a man on one of those nature channel documentary-type shows and I saw his name was Sky (could have been Skye) and it hit me all of a sudden too, hey that is kind of a really nice and cool name on a guy. It's reminiscent of Max or Nico, that slightly "outdated poetry" [props ;)] but still short and snappy feel.
I don't mind Skylar, either, as a full name but since it's getting a bit trendy, and esp. for girls, I kind of like just Sky. I guess I'd be afraid he'd get teased a bit so I don't know that I'd use it myself, but I like it. On a girl for some reason it comes off to me as too naturey and airheaded but oddly doesn't seem to for a boy.
Not sure but I might prefer Skye. It makes me think of the Isle of Skye, and since I have Scottish heritage (and like a lot of names of Celtic origin) that's a plus. Also, because it doesn't end on the "y" (which so many people seems to indicate female - not me, but if I was going to use it I might opt for the extra letter). But Sky has a nice simplicity to it as well.
I saw a man on one of those nature channel documentary-type shows and I saw his name was Sky (could have been Skye) and it hit me all of a sudden too, hey that is kind of a really nice and cool name on a guy. It's reminiscent of Max or Nico, that slightly "outdated poetry" [props ;)] but still short and snappy feel.
I don't mind Skylar, either, as a full name but since it's getting a bit trendy, and esp. for girls, I kind of like just Sky. I guess I'd be afraid he'd get teased a bit so I don't know that I'd use it myself, but I like it. On a girl for some reason it comes off to me as too naturey and airheaded but oddly doesn't seem to for a boy.
Not sure but I might prefer Skye. It makes me think of the Isle of Skye, and since I have Scottish heritage (and like a lot of names of Celtic origin) that's a plus. Also, because it doesn't end on the "y" (which so many people seems to indicate female - not me, but if I was going to use it I might opt for the extra letter). But Sky has a nice simplicity to it as well.
This message was edited 4/19/2013, 10:21 PM
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Since Skye is the more common spelling for girls I think it is probably more associated with females than the spelling Sky.
Personally I prefer both spellings - Sky and Skye - for a boy than for a girl. At the moment I slightly prefer the spelling Sky but a few years ago I preferred the spelling Skye, really I very much like both spellings.
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Personally I prefer both spellings - Sky and Skye - for a boy than for a girl. At the moment I slightly prefer the spelling Sky but a few years ago I preferred the spelling Skye, really I very much like both spellings.
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This message was edited 4/20/2013, 1:41 AM
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Not interested in it one bit.
It's a girls name to me and that will never change in my heart and soul.
It's a girls name to me and that will never change in my heart and soul.
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It's trendy for both boys AND girls where I live, so I don't think it's so unusual to use it on a person of the male persuasion. I don't think it's beautiful, I think it's...fluffy. Fluffy and insubstantial and boring. It doesn't have enough personality to be beautiful, IMHO.
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No, Sky is not a good boy's name. If I was a boy I would hate it. And if there was an actual cowboy in the Old West named Sky (as opposed to having it foisted on him as a nn for instance because he always had his head in the clouds) he would insist on being called Jack or Slim or just about anything else.
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I do wonder where the movies got the ideas for the names of the cowboys. Some of them are pretty out there. I've got a list of the wackier ones I've seen around somewhere.
Like, Quirt? What is that? Sky seems reasonable compared to Quirt.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the names we think of as "cowboy names" like Red and Buck were actually nicknames so cowboys wouldn't have to go around being called Virgil and Orville or something
Like, Quirt? What is that? Sky seems reasonable compared to Quirt.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the names we think of as "cowboy names" like Red and Buck were actually nicknames so cowboys wouldn't have to go around being called Virgil and Orville or something
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a quirt is a short riding whip...
So I would be inclined to think it was a nickname.
Back then, though there were exceptions, there was not as muc importance placed on creativity as there is today. IN general, while there was theoretically a large pool of names to choose from, in actual practice, many more people were named in what we'd now call the top 100 than are named from that pool today. Loads more Johns, Williams, Georges, Marys, Annas and Sarahs.
(Also, men who worked the frontier were by nature transient, and often on the shady side, trying to escape their pasts or make fresh starts. They wouldn't necessarily keep the same name when they moved onto a different ranch) And often men were known by the names of towns they'd distinguished themselves in, so you'd have Cheyenne, Abilene, Reno, that kind of thing.
So I would be inclined to think it was a nickname.
Back then, though there were exceptions, there was not as muc importance placed on creativity as there is today. IN general, while there was theoretically a large pool of names to choose from, in actual practice, many more people were named in what we'd now call the top 100 than are named from that pool today. Loads more Johns, Williams, Georges, Marys, Annas and Sarahs.
(Also, men who worked the frontier were by nature transient, and often on the shady side, trying to escape their pasts or make fresh starts. They wouldn't necessarily keep the same name when they moved onto a different ranch) And often men were known by the names of towns they'd distinguished themselves in, so you'd have Cheyenne, Abilene, Reno, that kind of thing.
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Yes people tended to select many safe traditional names back then but I've read that among the pioneers and people settling the Wild West that people tended to be more adventurous when naming than people on the other side of the Mississippi river. We do have a wider selection of commonly used names right now but back then people out West were more adventurous about naming than other people in the US. Some theories I've read is that they think since people had an adventurous enough spirit and were taking the risk to be out there in the first place that they were more likely to choose a less conventional name for their children.
But you are also probably right that some of or most of the really odd names we hear about were probably nn's or aliases.
I'm just saying that Sky as a name is something I can imagine getting used because it's not too out there and because nature names, word names, place names, and surnames were some of the more common names used by people who were breaking convention at the time when they named their children.
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But you are also probably right that some of or most of the really odd names we hear about were probably nn's or aliases.
I'm just saying that Sky as a name is something I can imagine getting used because it's not too out there and because nature names, word names, place names, and surnames were some of the more common names used by people who were breaking convention at the time when they named their children.
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This message was edited 4/20/2013, 1:49 PM
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I disagree because people in the old west usually prided themselves on having unusual names and often named their children unusual names. It was a part of the culture to name your children something edgy, so a boy named Sky would fit in. I'm not basing this off cowboy movies, I'm basing this on things I've read about the time period. Also when Kinga said cowboy I'm not thinking about outlaws and gunslingers I'm talking about all the people trying to make a place for themselves in a new unsettled territory, well unsettled by white people, it was settled by Indian's.
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This message was edited 4/19/2013, 2:48 PM
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It works on a boy, but I prefer it on a girl. I think most people would assume a Sky to be a girl. I like Sky for both genders. I only like Skye on a girl. Sky is my favorite spelling most of the time, I usually think Skye looks slightly misspelled.
I like Sky William, Sky Theodore and Sky Thomas.
I like Sky William, Sky Theodore and Sky Thomas.
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It's not 'beautiful' but it's not really far out at all. Seems conventional to me. It's what guys named Schuyler are called familiarly. And in the real world, Schuyler is not a girl name. It is masculine. Sky is usable and I agree, sort of ruggedly handsome, not quite cowboy though. If anyone thinks it's ruined by also being a girl name, I have a big scornful snort for them. It's an edgy girlname *because* it's a boy name in the first place, like Kyle or Ryan. (Skye is different)
My mom watched soaps on tv when I was a kid, and I first heard the name Sky (male) on a soap opera character in the 1980s. I googled him...
http://www.welovesoaps.net/2012/08/sky-raven-from-edge-of-night.html
The Sky/Raven relationship was the only thing I remember ever enjoying about mom's soap operas. Or any soap operas, ever. Not that I've watched many.
My mom watched soaps on tv when I was a kid, and I first heard the name Sky (male) on a soap opera character in the 1980s. I googled him...
http://www.welovesoaps.net/2012/08/sky-raven-from-edge-of-night.html
The Sky/Raven relationship was the only thing I remember ever enjoying about mom's soap operas. Or any soap operas, ever. Not that I've watched many.
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I've never watched the U.S. soap operas(don't think there are any Canadian ones, at least in English).No particular reason, I guess I was busy otherwise when they were on.
However! When we lived in Australia both my husband and I became captured by "Home and Away", and "Neighbours", and watched them every day.Sometimes my husband, tired after a long day, would mix them up, and say,"Why is Chloe with that guy?Isn't she with Luke?", and I'd say, "That isn't even Chloe, that's Tegan!"The pretty young girls tended to look alike.
For a while,we even watched a soap from Brazil.Neither of us understood the language,but after a while you could sort of follow the story.
However! When we lived in Australia both my husband and I became captured by "Home and Away", and "Neighbours", and watched them every day.Sometimes my husband, tired after a long day, would mix them up, and say,"Why is Chloe with that guy?Isn't she with Luke?", and I'd say, "That isn't even Chloe, that's Tegan!"The pretty young girls tended to look alike.
For a while,we even watched a soap from Brazil.Neither of us understood the language,but after a while you could sort of follow the story.
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Sky is a nickname for Schuyler and Skylar/Skyler, AND can also be a word name. I agree Sky is unisex here and now. I even said it's an edgy girlname. So why are you telling me this? lol. Schuyler is traditionally male and its usage on girls is recent and pretty negligible - I guess maybe it was unusually faddish in your location, or else your knowing two female Schuylers is an odd coincidence. I really doubt that there are enough female Schuylers out there to say that it's unisex as a matter of convention. If you feel like it's unisex, fine, but I don't.
This message was edited 4/19/2013, 2:30 PM
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I guess I must have misunderstood you, I'm sorry. I thought you were saying that Sky, just like Ryan, was always a boys name to begin with and has only become unisex recently and I disagree with that as it has always been a word and not used much until the 1990s, and even then it only made the top 1000 for girls. I didn't want to upset you, I feel I upset you earlier when I commented on Valentine. I didn't mean it as an attack or anything, I was just curious.
This message was edited 4/19/2013, 2:45 PM
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Sometimes I read you as snotty if it seems like you just contradict me, not in a conversational way but just make directly contradictory statements as if you are correcting me for the general public's edification. Sorry - I try not to get all snipey over it.
I don't have any reason to believe Sky was ever used for girls before the 1980s or so. But I would buy that it was used rarely, or as a form of Skye. I dunno. My impression is that among the living, anyway, it's unisex.
I don't have any reason to believe Sky was ever used for girls before the 1980s or so. But I would buy that it was used rarely, or as a form of Skye. I dunno. My impression is that among the living, anyway, it's unisex.
This message was edited 4/19/2013, 5:46 PM
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Sorry! I didn't mean it that way.
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I love Sky for a boy. Truthfully even though I view Sky as being very unisex I've always slightly preferred it for a boy, I think the first Sky I met or heard of was a girl and I've definitely met / know of more female Sky's than male Sky's, but I've always just preferred it for a boy. Plus I haven't met that many more female Sky's, so this name is obviously very unisex and easily works for a boy as well as a girl.
I like all of your Sky combos, I never felt that this name was cowboyish before but now that you mention it Sky definitely gives off a cowboy vibe. Before Sky always seemed nature themed, English, Scottish, Norse, and Dutch to me. Dutch because of Schuyler / Skyler, Norse because the word Sky meant cloud in Old Norse, and Scottish because of the Isle of Skye off Scotland. I also associate Sky as being kind of Japanese because of the Final Fantasy character Cloud and the Kingdom Hearts character Sora. But now I'll think of it also as a cowboy name.
I wanted to add that I prefer just plain Sky for a boy over the name Schuyler / Skyler. Schuyler is pronounced differently in German more like SHOO-lur, and since that is my surname I feel that it seems weird and wrong to be pronouncing it so differently. It's my surname only minus the y but my dad researched our genealogy and they spelled our surname with and without the y changing back and forth through out our family history, so Schuyler is just a spelling variant of our surname or our surname is just a spelling variant of Schuyler.
I like all of your Sky combos, I never felt that this name was cowboyish before but now that you mention it Sky definitely gives off a cowboy vibe. Before Sky always seemed nature themed, English, Scottish, Norse, and Dutch to me. Dutch because of Schuyler / Skyler, Norse because the word Sky meant cloud in Old Norse, and Scottish because of the Isle of Skye off Scotland. I also associate Sky as being kind of Japanese because of the Final Fantasy character Cloud and the Kingdom Hearts character Sora. But now I'll think of it also as a cowboy name.
I wanted to add that I prefer just plain Sky for a boy over the name Schuyler / Skyler. Schuyler is pronounced differently in German more like SHOO-lur, and since that is my surname I feel that it seems weird and wrong to be pronouncing it so differently. It's my surname only minus the y but my dad researched our genealogy and they spelled our surname with and without the y changing back and forth through out our family history, so Schuyler is just a spelling variant of our surname or our surname is just a spelling variant of Schuyler.
This message was edited 4/19/2013, 2:32 PM
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Even though I don't hate them, I agree too. -
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I can see it. I don't think I'd use it, but I can definitely picture a Sky Alexander. I'd avoid middle names like Theodore and Abraham though; Sky is too androgynous for the "manlier" feel of those names. I'd also go for names that remind you of light colors. Sky makes me think of blond hair and the sky blue color, so I'd avoid any middle names that seem musky or earthy.
Other ideas:
Sky Alexi
Sky Alexian
Sky Callan
Sky Conall
Sky Cadeyrn
Sky Tristan
Sky Taliesin
Sky Anders
Sky Peter
Sky Julius
Other ideas:
Sky Alexi
Sky Alexian
Sky Callan
Sky Conall
Sky Cadeyrn
Sky Tristan
Sky Taliesin
Sky Anders
Sky Peter
Sky Julius
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I like Sky Conall, Sky Tristan, Sky Taliesin, Sky Anders, Sky Peter, and Sky Julius.
Sky does seem like a sky blue and golden yellow airy name, but at the same time Sky is orange, bronze or rust red, and bright yellow to me because those are the colors of those letters. Some of these other names that are paired with Sky in these combos don't look airy or blue to me but I still really like them as a mn for Sky. Though when I think about these names some may not look airy to me but they all sound airy.
I'm especially loving the combo Sky Taliesin, something just feels so right about it.
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Sky does seem like a sky blue and golden yellow airy name, but at the same time Sky is orange, bronze or rust red, and bright yellow to me because those are the colors of those letters. Some of these other names that are paired with Sky in these combos don't look airy or blue to me but I still really like them as a mn for Sky. Though when I think about these names some may not look airy to me but they all sound airy.
I'm especially loving the combo Sky Taliesin, something just feels so right about it.
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This message was edited 4/20/2013, 1:29 AM
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When I read the subject heading I thought "no", but to be honest you're kind of selling me on it lol! I'm not a fan of the name Sky on either gender but I always figured it was better on a girl. Now, I'm actually liking it a lot more on a boy. Not just because of your cowboy analogy, but now I'm thinking of it as sort of a handsome/cool name in general.
Sky Thomas sounds cool and has a nice flow. That one's my favourite for sure.
Sky Thomas sounds cool and has a nice flow. That one's my favourite for sure.
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haha yay, I'm glad that I'm selling Sky's charms! I am seriously so pleased with this discovery. I haven't getten excited over a boy name for such a long time, it's a nice feeling.
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"Guys and Dolls" fan, are we? :-)
Sure. Sky for a boy. Why not? I'd prefer it as a nn for something like Schuyler, or Celestino, or Stellan Kai or Soren Malachi, but it can stand on its own too. From your list I'm digging all of them. I started to list the ones I liked and realized I was just repeating yours. :-P My favorite, if I had to pick, would be Sky Alexander. I love it for the flow and the vague association in my mind with Scotland (Isle of Skye and the fact that Alexander has historically been used a lot there.)
Sure. Sky for a boy. Why not? I'd prefer it as a nn for something like Schuyler, or Celestino, or Stellan Kai or Soren Malachi, but it can stand on its own too. From your list I'm digging all of them. I started to list the ones I liked and realized I was just repeating yours. :-P My favorite, if I had to pick, would be Sky Alexander. I love it for the flow and the vague association in my mind with Scotland (Isle of Skye and the fact that Alexander has historically been used a lot there.)
This message was edited 4/19/2013, 11:58 AM
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Not just a boy, my dear, but a man. 1950's Marlon Brando in fact. "Sky Masterson."
"I got a horse right here, the name is Paul Revere, and here's a guy that says that the weather's clear. Can do, can do, this guy says the horse can do, . . . ." Man, that's going to be in my head all afternoon. :-) (Yes, I know Marlon's character doesn't sing this song, but the movie is worth sitting through if only to hear this one. Oh, and "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat.")
"I got a horse right here, the name is Paul Revere, and here's a guy that says that the weather's clear. Can do, can do, this guy says the horse can do, . . . ." Man, that's going to be in my head all afternoon. :-) (Yes, I know Marlon's character doesn't sing this song, but the movie is worth sitting through if only to hear this one. Oh, and "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat.")
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I love musicals, I haven't watched the movie but I saw Guys and Dolls when it came to town two years ago. It was a lot of fun and I definitely recommend seeing it.
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