Conference oass::babynames

    
    
    I love the name Holly, no matter how you spell it.  I think that if you
    have a girl, and name her Holley, that she will feel proud to be named
    a fter someone you obviously care very deeply about.  I admit, I have
    never seen Holley as a boy's name, but then again, so many names are
    "sexless".  If you do have a boy, you have to think of his future and
    what he'd go thru with a rather "female" name.  What about using it as
    a middle name for a boy?
    
    Just my opinion.
    
    -raquel
    
    

    Seeing as it is being used as a middle name (as the base note states),
    I see no problem with it.
    
    I HAVE seen "Holley" used as a male name, but not exactly under the
    best of examples...it was the name of the computer in the first few
    seasons of "Red Dwarf", a British sci-fi-comedy.  (In later seasons,
    Holley becomes a girl).  The show is fantastic, but...
    
    K.C.

    In a mothers' group I participated in this summer, there was one little
    boy named "Hollis" (after his father), but that's as close as I've
    heard. I agree that it would probably be better as a middle name if
    it's a boy, but love it as a first name for a girl.
    
    Good luck,
    -Cori

    Hi,
    
    I was named after my uncle; my middle name's Len, which is a masculine
    name.  I always thought it was kind of neat, because it sounds
    "feminine" (like Holley does), yet it's spelled differently than Lynn
     not just because it was trendy to change the spelling, but rather to honor a
    a relative. 
    
    I also knew a lady who's name was James Lois.  After three girls, her
    father insisted on calling the next child James.  Wouldn't you know,
    James turned out to be a girl!  She goes by Lois, and whereas I don't
    know if she suffered any trauma as a child, she seems very unperturbed
    by her "masculine" name.  Perhaps it's easier for girls with masculine
    names than vise versa? At any rate, Holley sounds like a dandy choice!
    
    /slt

    I suppose that it is easier for a girl to have a masculine name than
    vice versa.
    
    For instance - lots of nicknames for girls have definite masculine
    backings (no spelling nits, please - I'm making a point):
    
    Danielle - Danny
    Alexandra - Alex
    Michelle - Mitch or Mick
    Barbara - Bobby
    Joanne - Joe
    Stephanie - Stevie
    
    etc., etc., etc.
    
    But, if a boy is given a feminine sounding name, more often than not he
    will be called "Sissy" or "Girly"...in 2nd grade I knew a boy named
    Christopher (nice, masculine name, right?), but his mother called him
    "Chrissy", and he was a CONSTANT target for teasing.
    
    But, middle names aren't often even noticed by people.  
    
    K.C.
    

    Hi -
    
    I hope this isn't too late but my second cousin Ashley was named after
    her grandfather Ashley.  I personally feel that if you had a girl and
    named her Holley after the grandfather I think she would feel a special
    connection to him.  I also perfer the spelling Holley opposed to the
    plain Holly.
    
    But, for a boy, I think Hollis sounds better than Holley.  I think
    boy's have a harder time dealing with girl sounding names than vise
    versa.
    
    Just my opinion.....
    
    Karen

    
    
    My middle name is Dean, after my Great-grandmothers maiden name.  I
    have always liked it.  It is a name that can be male or female.
    
    About Hollis, I've always liked that name, I also know a woman named
    Hollis here at work!
                                        
    I vote Holley for a Girl and Holley as a middle name for a boy.
    Of course this comes from someone who's boys have different middle names, 
    one is Hazen and the other is Gaetan.
    
    Nancy

    A few weeks ago I met a most charming, wonderful elderly gentleman (he
    had turned 89 just days before I met him) named Hazen.  I was
    fascinated by the name, and by the man.
    
    K.C.

    
    
    I knew two people in high school with the name, one was a student and
    the other was a teacher (the teacher had it as a middle name) and I
    really liked the name too.  I think it's Scottish.
    
    I wanted to use it as a first name, but my husband was too skittish
    about that.  He's a bit more conventional about names than I am.
    My kids are Andrew Gaetan Fontaine and Samuel Hazen Fontaine. He picked
    the first names and I picked the middle ones.
    
    Nancy

Hello!

I am pleased and proud to announce that...


	Sarah Holley Dorman


was born on July 19, 1992 at 7:11 am (she should
play the Lottery).  7 lbs. 2 oz., 20 inches.

Mother and daughter are doing fine!

Thanks to all of you who responded to this note to
help Mom and Dad in using Grandpa's name.  Your input
was greatly appreciated.


Thanks, Tom

    
    Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    
    -raq
    
    

    Hope this is not too late to get read, but for those of us who watch
    Murphy Brown, after weeks of TV-Land discussion she named her son Avery
    and it was her MOTHER's name!