Baby Name Poll Results

What was your grandmother’s maiden name (her last name before she got married)? That might be a more appropriate middle name for your son than Amelia.

On another note: Just because someone names their daughter Bradley or James doesn’t mean it’s ok.

I would not use Amelia..its truly a girls name why not give him something more manly? people will make fun of him for it.

I love the idea of honoring her but I’d hesitate to use a feminine name on a boy. Boy names on girls are sadly popular; girl names on boys are very much frowned on. In all of our common given names, many many of the girl names were once boys, but only two boy names were once girls (Douglas and Christian).

Other names coming from the same root as Amelia are Amery/Emery and Emerson. You could look at a last name, or nickname, or perhaps a character trait or hobby.

I’m sorry about your inability to have more children, but Amelia is truly a girls name. Personally, I hate that girls these days are being named Bradley and James. Maybe there’s a similar name that you could use? You’d be surprised how many times a child’s middle name will come up, and he will hate it. Good luck!

Amelia is a girls name. Sorry. Yes, some people decide to use boys names for girls, but they DON’T use girls names for boys!! You don’t want to do that to your son. I get that you want to honor your grandma, but he will guaranteed HATE his middle name, and be embarrassed that you did that to him. You might not be thinking about that now, but I’m sure that’s not what you want. I would go another route!!! I like all the boys names you picked, they are all great names. Good luck.

Despite these idiots above, he’s your child and you should name him whatever you want. I think it’s great that you’re honoring your grandmother. Go for it! I also like all 3 first names you picked.

Lee is in Amelia. You could even spell it Li. And it goes great with many different first names.

Wow. No. What about Amil?

I respect your opinion, SD, but may I point out that not everyone who disagrees with you is necessarily an idiot?

Maybe try Amelie, a little bit more masculine.

Or Amal.

Amelia means "work" and it sounds like she worked hard and did a good job! How about a boys name with the same meaning?

Emery
Tanner
Emmett
Mason
Melvin
Turner
Miller

Andrew Mason
Patrick Emery
Joshua Turner
Joshua Emmett
Andrew Emery

I can’t fault your logic. But Patrick Emil / Emile / Aemilius would be so dashing, especially Patrick Aemilius. Good luck! :0)

Please, please, please, don’t do this to your precious only child. You won’t be able to honor your grandmother if your son is embarrassed by his name. Choose a name that starts with an A or has the same meaning or maybe Emile.

You can assign any meaning to a name. And he will be able to honor his great grandmother by sharing his story about his masculine name.

I agree with FredaCat, Patrick Emil/Emile would be so so nice. I would use that rather than Amelia, it sounds very similar!

My grandmother is still alive by the way. Her maiden name was Moore, I don’t really think that would make a very good middle name for him. It sounds odd with our surname to me. She doesn’t have any nicknames, my nephew’s name is Emerson and my husband also has a niece with the middle name Emerson so we don’t really want to use that and have him have the same name as two of his cousins and we don’t really like Amery/Emery and we already don’t like Emilio, Emil/Emile is basically just the shortened version of it isn’t it? I don’t see how you can say that a child will garunteed hate their name, Miss Bradley loves her name. Maybe our son will love the fact that he was named after his amazing great grandmother. I understand there is a possibility that he will hate it and he might get teased for it here and there but I don’t think we can just automatically say before he is even born that he will hate it. Lee is okay but we don’t really like one syllable nasmes since our surname is only one syllable. We don’t really care about the meanings of names so finding a boy name with the same meaning or a boy name that just starts with A just doesn’t hold as much quality to us. But Tanner is a nice name. Aemilius is nice but too foreign for my husband. Amelie doesn’t feel anymore masculine than Amelia is.

Thank you for your thoughts and ideas, Michelle and Kyle

Amalric Leon
Ambram/Amram Leon
Ambrose Leon
Amery Leon
Eamon/Eamonn Lee (AY-mon)
Emanuel Leon
Emeric/Emmerich Leon
Emmett Leon
Emrys Leon

You got many responses, everyone agrees Amelia is a GIRL name. I’m sure your grandmother would be honored that you want to name the baby after her, but what does SHE say about using a very feminine girls name for your son? Like other people said before, using boys names for girls is a trend that many people are doing. That trend doesn’t go both ways! If you can’t find a masculine form of Amelia you should let it go. For your sons sake.

Other options:

You can also just name him Andrew A. LASTNAME and you all know what the A stands for, but it isn’t on his birth certificate.

I know a little boy with the first name Moore and it suits him so I think Andrew Moore or whatever would work.

I also thought of Ames instead of Amelia to honor her.

Well, technically Emil is like a German/Swedish/Norwegian name and Emilio is an Italian/Spanish name. So Emil isn’t just I shortened version of Emilio, but I understand if you still don’t like it. I just feel like it sounds very very similar to Amelia while also being masculine. HOWEVER, if you still don’t like it, I think it will be okay to use Amelia. I’m not really seeing any other options. Patrick gets my vote :)

Why can’t that trend go both ways? If boy names can be made appropriate for girls why can’t we make girl names appropriate for boys? My grandma loves that we want to honor her, she was the one who suggested Emilio to us but we don’t like that one, she has told us several times that we should use whatever name we want to even if that is Amelia, she will love him all the same, to her it doesn’t matter if he has a girl name. Patrick, Joshua, and Andrew are all after members of my husband’s family, his dad’s middle name is Joshua, his grandfather’s name was Patrick, and his uncle’s name was Andrew. So to us it’s only fair that I get to choose a member from my family to honor as well since he is our only child but there isn’t anyone else I would rather honor than my grandmother. I don’t like Moore as the middle name with our surname. My grandmother’s middle name is Lynnette and we don’t really like Lynn for a boy so that’s out of the question. We don’t like Leon but Ambrose and Emeric are nice.

Thanks again, Michelle and Kyle

Why ask for opinions if you’ve already decided? Just go ahead and give your son the middle name Amelia.

I didn’t ask for opinions on the middle name but I expected to grt this kind of response, all of the people saying it’s a bad idea and giving us other options. I asked to vote for your favorite of the three. I stated our reason for choosing Amelia for his middle name but I never asked for opinions on it.

Michelle and Kyle

This is why I don’t name my children after ANYONE. Not dad, grandpa, uncle, mom, grandma, no one. Cause then you get stuck naming your kid something ridiculous, and well, I also have some other reasons of why also. Amelia is ridiculous on a boy. Heck, I think its ugly on a girl. Just pick something you like, thats NOT a girl name. And no, I don’t support boy names on girls either. Just pick a boy name that starts with an A that you like, and make him not hate to tell people his middle name. He WILL have to tell people his middle name. On legal forms, job apps, college admittance forms, sometimes the whole middle name is on your mail too. Amelia is like in the top ten for girls right now. My husband is 52 years old, and he still gets made fun of for his middle name. Babe. And Babe isn’t even as bad as Amelia!! And he is dealing with old guys making fun of his middle name! His middle name is after an uncle that died two weeks before he was born. Seriously, do what I said above. Just find a different A name that you like, and nix Amelia.

Babe the pig, and things like that are said about my husbands middle name. And high school boys can be really mean. If my husband whos as old as his is still dealing with people making fun of Babe, I seriously don’t want to think of how badly obnoxious bratty high school boys are gonna make fun of Amelia on a boy.

If you only want opinions on the first names, only list the first names. Gender bending names are going to cause comment, both here and in real life. If you don’t want to deal with it, don’t mention the middle name.

You could use the letters of Amelia to make a different name? If you want to use the mn Amelia for your son you’re going to do it but I like to get a little more creative then taking literal names.

Patrick Liaame (or Liam)
Patrick Maalie
Patrick Elimaa (or Eli)
Patrick Aailem
Patrick Mileaa (miles)

Still honors, gives an interesting story, doesn’t have a girl name

I love this idea. Why is a traditional male name the only acceptable "unisex" option? I like Joshua and Andrew the best from your first names.

Michelle and Kyle
You appear to be a bit of a narcissist. As said someone said above, if you were set on the middle name then why tell it to us if you would know our reaction. And how much more horrible can Moore sound than Amelia.

Here’s a thought, ask your grandmother what she thinks about a great grandson with a middle name of Amelia. I wonder what she’d say. Do you care or do you just want to do things yr way?