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HelpGillian on a boy?
Urm, I have a question (obviously ;) ).
And it's not so much "do you like Gillian on a boy?", but rather "have you ever met/heard of a guy named Gillian?"
Because here's the thing: one of my quite reliable name books claims that, in the English-speaking world, Gillian is/was/has been used a masculine name. As such, it is allegedly an Anglicized form of a Gaelic masculine name Gillean (and pronounced with a "hard G", as in "garden").
Personally, I've always only heard of Gillian as a girls' name (which I love and would consider using, by the way), but then again, that doesn't mean much since I don't live in an English-speaking country. So I thought I'd ask you: Have you ever heard of male Gillians? Is it like Ashley, Lindsay, Kelly, Shannon - or more like "a boy named Sue"?
Oh, and while we are at it: how do you, personally, pronounce that name in general? "Soft G" or "hard G"? To me, it was always clear that this name is pronounced with a "soft G" (simply because that's how I learnt it); reading through the comment section for Gillian, though, apparently some people do pronounce it with a "hard G". Would that depend on the region you are from?
Anyway, thanks in advance!
And it's not so much "do you like Gillian on a boy?", but rather "have you ever met/heard of a guy named Gillian?"
Because here's the thing: one of my quite reliable name books claims that, in the English-speaking world, Gillian is/was/has been used a masculine name. As such, it is allegedly an Anglicized form of a Gaelic masculine name Gillean (and pronounced with a "hard G", as in "garden").
Personally, I've always only heard of Gillian as a girls' name (which I love and would consider using, by the way), but then again, that doesn't mean much since I don't live in an English-speaking country. So I thought I'd ask you: Have you ever heard of male Gillians? Is it like Ashley, Lindsay, Kelly, Shannon - or more like "a boy named Sue"?
Oh, and while we are at it: how do you, personally, pronounce that name in general? "Soft G" or "hard G"? To me, it was always clear that this name is pronounced with a "soft G" (simply because that's how I learnt it); reading through the comment section for Gillian, though, apparently some people do pronounce it with a "hard G". Would that depend on the region you are from?
Anyway, thanks in advance!
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