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Hate James. Sorry, that's just unfair. I knew a Jamie (f) and even with a slightly less masculine version of the name she was always either getting called Janie or people expected a boy when they saw her name on paper. She also passionately hated her name, borderline resented her parents for calling her that, and ended up legally changing her name. It made her very miserable. Apparently Jamie can be a girls' name, but I've never met another Jamie (f) and neither had she (UK, we've both met many male Jamies, which is common here) and everyone always assumed she was a boy before meeting her - as she was a very classy, feminine young woman, she did not care for this and her name really didn't suit her. She's much happier with her new name.

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I don't really like unisex names on girls that much I will admit, but there's a difference between calling your girl Robin or Madison and James (and James is worse than Jamie) or Samuel. To me, at least.

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I dislike Marjorie, but Constance is kind of cool, in a retro battle-axe kind of way.

This message was edited 12/15/2020, 3:08 PM