James as the first name for a baby girl is just mean. Perhaps the father wanted a boy? Maybe she can call herself Jamie in the future.

Is there any way to change the captcha pictures on this board? They’re extremely hard to read and it takes me a LOT of tries to get the image right. If you could have the letters in red, or some contrasting color (not black like the lines going across the letters) it would be easier to distinguish between Ls and Ts (for example.)

Sarah’s note: I don’t think that’s anything we can change, I think that’s on Typepad’s end.

In my last post I meant “I love” not just “love.” (I know it’s j’aime, but perhaps they gave her the name James to make it easier for Americans to pronounce?)

Rebecca: The French word for love is amour. J’aime means “I like” or “I love” so perhaps that is what you are thinking of. I know Jaime Presley said that is where the spelling for her name comes from.

As for James, the name is not French by origin as they use Jacques (said to be a form of Jacob and James) instead. Of course not all currently used baby names in French speaking countries are all traditionally French, so they may use James but I haven’t found it for either sex in the online lists of popular baby names in France. This is just what I know from taking French classes and a brief online search though, so if anyone has more knowledge of naming in France feel free to correct me.

Isn’t James a version of the French word for love and a girl’s name in France?

emily- Nothing’s wrong with being masculine or feminine….But nothing’s wrong with being gender-neutral, either. As for the whole name debate….The name Shiloh is traditionally masculine, but I never see any comments about Brad and Angelina giving their daughter a masculine name. Why the double standard?

Sheesh who knew a little name will cause such a fuss! Of course the parents are well entitled to name their child whatever they want and it’s all very well that here as adults some can see nothing wrong with a female James and indeed there is nothing wrong. However kids have been bullied in schools for far less. I have no doubt that such a fate awaits little James if she does not use a nickname or her middle name! Trust

Man Brendan is sexy! His baby girl is adorable! I like the name James, but for a boy, but for the record, I LOVE the name Brenden (that’s how I would spell it) and am pretty sure that’s my future son’s name! I like Jen too, for being short for Jennifer

She is so cute!! I had a big old dark head of hair when I was born as did my oldest. I always think newborns with a full head of hair are so cute. I loved Roswell so I was pretty excited to see this post.