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HelpRe: Sky... for a boy
in reply to a message by Kinga
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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