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HelpRe: Esme/Esmee?
in reply to a message by Miranda
Esmé in particular might also be getting a boost from the boy's-names-on-girls trend,
Seems unlikely to me. In my experience, Esme(e) hasn't been popular enough for a lot of people (or at least people in the areas in which I've lived) to even realize that there's a masculine form of the name. Since Esmee doesn't have nearly the recognizability of Renee, a lot of people don't immediately connect the two E's to the "ay" sound and thus would find it more logical to spell it with just one.
Barring that, everyone might just be Salinger fans.
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Seems unlikely to me. In my experience, Esme(e) hasn't been popular enough for a lot of people (or at least people in the areas in which I've lived) to even realize that there's a masculine form of the name. Since Esmee doesn't have nearly the recognizability of Renee, a lot of people don't immediately connect the two E's to the "ay" sound and thus would find it more logical to spell it with just one.
Barring that, everyone might just be Salinger fans.
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