Message: "Cary?" - Behind the Name

Cary?

by Effie (guest)

12/5/2004, 11:04 AM

What do you think of the name Cary for a boy? I like the sound of it, but I don't think I'd ever use it, just because there are other names I much prefer. Do you think it would be hard to pull off these days? Despite the Carys Grant and Elwes, I don't think I've ever heard the name on an boy; and in the respect of all the female Carries it probably sounds too "prissy" to most people, but what do you think?

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- Eden (guest)

12/5/2004, 5:21 PM

I like it. I used to know a guy named Kerry.

- auria (guest)

12/5/2004, 2:43 PM

i think its ok, my friend from school hid dads name is kerry and i dont really think of it as girlish, i did the first time i heard it but now i dont

- Sophie (eurythmic)

12/5/2004, 2:40 PM

Yeah I think it does sound a bit feminine. My friend Carrie was named after the Joni Mitchell song "Carey", even though that's about a bloke, and now I can't hear the name without thinking how it's girly!
S xx

- Lissa Hannah (Lissa)

12/5/2004, 1:04 PM

I've never heard it for a boy. I used to know a Carrie (which was her full first name) It seems too feminine now. I prefer Carrie as a nickname for Caroline, Carolyn, or Carolina.

- chazda

12/5/2004, 12:11 PM

I like it.

I don't think it'd be hard to pull off for most guys. Not prissy at all; it's rugged on a guy to me. I think the famous bearers have rescued it. Besides, it sounds like the surnamey Carey. It might be inconveniently ambiguous now and then, though, when the guy was referred to aloud but his sex wasn't indicated. I guess it helps to be famous.

- chazda

- Miss Claire

12/5/2004, 11:48 AM

Nmsaa, sorry.

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