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What do you think of Paris?
Boy, or girl?
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Boy, or girl?
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Not pleasant sounding to me at all, and I'm not a fan of names based on places.
Firstly, I don’t care much for it; Paris isn’t my cup of tea. Also, I’ve only met female bearers of the name, so I think of it as a girl name.
Not really my style
I've only ever encountered it as a name for gals, outside of the myth. When I try to imagine it on a guy, the image that comes to mind is a prepubescent "pretty" boy. If I force myself to picture a man, I get an image of a painfully shy bookworm with zits, stutter, thick spectacles ... I'm sorry Paris, but you are no handsome rake, at least not in my mind.
On a gal it's more like, cosmopolitan glamor through the starry eyes of a tacky American. Sort of the opposite of pretentious, and I kinda like it. I got my hair cut at a salon twice when I was a child, and the hairdresser's name was Paris, the first time I'd heard it as a name. She had curly reddish hair and big brown eyes and was very kind to me. She would have been born in the early sixties. The name seemed neat-o to me at the time. Even Paris Hilton has not managed to convince me not to like it.
On a gal it's more like, cosmopolitan glamor through the starry eyes of a tacky American. Sort of the opposite of pretentious, and I kinda like it. I got my hair cut at a salon twice when I was a child, and the hairdresser's name was Paris, the first time I'd heard it as a name. She had curly reddish hair and big brown eyes and was very kind to me. She would have been born in the early sixties. The name seemed neat-o to me at the time. Even Paris Hilton has not managed to convince me not to like it.
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I like it a lot as a male name due to the mythological Paris.
I think it’s really handsome on a boy! It’s cute for a girl too but for a boy it’s better imo.
Don't like it for either
Not good for either. It might be mildly amusing to pronounce it PaREE, but only once or twice.
I can picture that on a white, fluffy cat.
I once met an old lady who had been a young girl in occupied Paris during the Second World War. She said that food was scarce because the German armed forces always got priority, but one day suddenly, rabbit meat was available in all the butchers and all the ladies happily baked rabbit pie. Which was greatly enjoyed, until everyone started noticing that there weren't any cats to be seen any more ... so my associations with Paris and cats aren't very positive at all!
By the way, she was a Jew and survived the occupation, nobody queried her family's identity, nobody reported them to the Germans, and - as she said - luckily, most French women were dark-haired and dumpy so her family didn't stand out!
By the way, she was a Jew and survived the occupation, nobody queried her family's identity, nobody reported them to the Germans, and - as she said - luckily, most French women were dark-haired and dumpy so her family didn't stand out!
It’s dashing and rakish on a boy but a bit tacky on a girl.