Comments on: Name of the Day: Kyle http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/ Where Every Name Has a Story Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: V http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-26959 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:10:12 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-26959 Hate Kyle. I immediately think of the South Park character, and then all the wimpy boys I’ve known with that name. And now there are a million girls named Kylee, Kaileigh, etc… no thanks.

]]> By: Sunday Summary: 2/20/11 « Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-18434 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:40:49 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-18434 [...] earlier this week, and so I thought this was timely: from the Quinnipiac Chronicle, a girl named Kyle who loves her name.  However, she would’ve liked to buy pink pencils with her name on [...]

]]> By: Kyle http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-7847 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:58:12 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-7847 I am a female Kyle, and I love my name. I’m even going to name my daughter after me, someday, if I have one.

I never thought of my name as anything but MY name, not a boys name, not a girls name, just something that I’ve always been called, and I LOVE it. I would never trade my name for any other.

I say this because I know of a lot of girls with more masculine names that HATE it, but I love being the only girl Kyle in my entire school, and though I am more masculine than most of my female friends, I enjoy immensely the fact that I can go both ways and sometimes tease people about guessing my gender.

I LOVE it.

]]> By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-4142 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:13:54 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-4142 LOL, Kyle! Yup, this is a blog about baby names. Or names for anything, I suppose – dogs, cars, goldfish …

I like your point that Kyle rhymes with smile. And I think you’re absolutely right about Rufus!

]]> By: Kyle http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-4140 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:36:57 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-4140 While doing a funny little google search about names that I found on facebook I came across this website, and I gotta be honest the internet never ceases to amaze me. I’m guessing this is a site about prospective baby names, or perhaps a blog I didnt diligently track down its origin. I was amazed to hear what people think of my name, and those who share it. My parents liked it because of its celtic origins, and its rather less than used status. I can say I only ever met about 2 other Kyles, and I live in a city of 350,000 people. I was particulary interested to see the person providing the alliteration for the name, bile and pile. To point out to this person, it also rhymes with smile. I guess youd need to be a cup half full kind of person to see that one :) . As for the Asian dialect not meshing with the name, i can attest to that. I had a japanese exchange student sophomore year of college and he never got close to saying my name lol. All in all I kinda like my name, i mean its better than its terribly close cousin “Lyle”. I guess the take home message from this one is give us Kyle’s a chance, we arent half bad. And also to all future parents looking for names, the name you give your kid isnt half as important as the love. I for one still think Rufus is do for a comeback……any day now.

]]> By: Shannon http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-3122 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:44:55 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-3122 Not among my favorites, but I never mind running into a Kyle.. I know one who is about 5, but too me it does not sound middle-aged.. more like a 20 to 30 something. I never ran into any among people my age (40s). Kevin and Scott, now, are certainly sounding middle-aged. . though I have a cousin Kevin in his early 20s. Several Kyles among the contemporaries of my 20-30′s cousins.. friends of Jason, Justin and Evan.

]]> By: Kate http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-3059 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:20:47 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-3059 I can’t get excited about him either, Bnb and Jne have already touched upon the main reason and that’s the sound – so harsh! I don’t know, he just feels a bit flat to me.

]]> By: appellationmountain http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-3044 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:23:15 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-3044 Kyle and Ryan are two that strike me more and more as popular gender neutral choices, though I think they both still wear well on boys.

The K really is an issue, isn’t it? But overall, I still think he qualifies as a modern Michael or Christopher – perfectly wearable, just not exciting. Friends of ours chose it for exactly that reason. They wanted a “normal” name *and* wanted to break away from family naming traditions.

It will be interesting to see how Kyle fares in, say, 2040. Will he be forgotten or will he be in the midst of a revival?

]]> By: Christina Fonseca http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-3042 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:54 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-3042 I like Kyle but it never made it into my lists for MY kids’ names. My first boss named her first-born daughter Barbara Kyle in the early 70s. Barbara was after a friend; Kyle she used simply because she liked it although even she thought of it as a boy’s name.

]]> By: Kayt http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/05/name-of-the-day-kyle/#comment-3041 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:27:57 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1331#comment-3041 I’m tired of K names! It is nice to see that Kyle has a surprizingly long history, though.

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