My daughter’s enunciation isn’t very good and it is often difficult to understand her. She introduced herself to some parents at a new activity and then walked away. They looked at me and asked “Her name is Cheerios?” Really, they thought her name was Cheerios? Yes, and this is my other daughter Fruit Loops.
I personally dislike unisex first names. Be careful that that sort of name wouldn’t sound weak for a boy in several years or masuculine for a girl. It seems , though, as girls have more latitude (think of the unisex names that are now usually for girls above).
Consider how the name sounds when you yell it out- as for dinner, when outdoors…
Whatever you do, remember to finally decide after your child is born- do not be too set on any one name until you see your child. The thought of name will seem just right or something else will seem to fit best.
I believe the hebrew word for sheep is keves (kev - ess), not rae.
Good thing Romani and her husband are okay with them. 
Matys is a popular French name for children.
Camille works for boys and girls (Camille Desmoulins, Camille Saint Saens, Camille Claudel, Camille Pissarro)
Less classical: Maé, Lou, Thaïs, Noa, Sacha, Alix, Alik.
@jym626 it’s apparently Rachel (Rae) = “ewe” so female sheep. Either way, Rachel/Rae wasn’t on the list lol. I just thought it was a funny that my grandma was so adamant about it.
@wis75 that’s nice We only considered unisex names for the reasons I’ve already stated.
It is neither a feminine nor masculine name. It’s traditionally female with a slightly different spelling in one culture and traditionally masculine in another. It doesn’t have a ton of popularity in the US but it’s not a name that anyone is going to have a problem with. Neither is my British family, Japanese in-law family, or Spanish family.
In tvs/movies, it’s pretty split 50/50 on whether male or female characters have it.
Nothing is final until it’s on the birth certificate. And even then… it’s not until you submit it. My name was originally Suzanne (for example) but my dad hated it so now I’m just Sue. (Not my real name.) They had to get another birth certificate form to fill out lol.
We’re pretty set on it but for a lot of reasons, we’re not getting anything with their name on it until after they’re born. It’s borderline a superstition for me.
Never quite understood why seeing your newborn might make one change the name (assuming one had the gender correct if its not a unisex name). Is it really possible to look at a newborn and think “that name doesn’t fit”? Granted, it might not be difficult to look at a newborn and think “they don’t look like an Elmer or a Gertrude, but, given that newborns’ looks change, how does one discern that a chosen name doesn’t “fit”?
When one of my DS’s was born, he looked kinda like a cross between E.T. and a chicken. That did not prompt us to want to change the selected names to instead honor Steven Spielberg or Colonel Sanders 
@jym626 omg lol.
Admittedly, my parents changed my name upon seeing me because surprise - I was definitely NOT a Kevin.
My brother and SIL had decided to name their child Shannon, boy or girl. My brother’s best friend (guy) was Shannon and they liked it. This was 35 years ago and they didn’t know the sex. Baby is born and it’s a boy and my SIL decided she didn’t want a boy named Shannon. So yes, looking at the baby did cause a name change.
His sister is named Shannon.
My daughter also looked like a roasted chicken but we did not call her Peeps.
So , @twoinanddone, it sounds like your SIL decided she didnt want to name a boy Shannon and chickened out (pun intended) If the first kiddo had been a girl, it’d have been Shannon, yes? So it wasn’t what the baby’s top half looked like, it was what their… um… bottom half looked like.
@jym626 LOL! I think all newborns look like Yoda, Winston Churchill, or Nikita Khrushchev.
When my first was born, we did not want to find out its gender in advance. We had a boy name and girl name picked out. We fought over names for practically the whole 9 months because my hardheaded (now ex) H did not like ANYTHING on my list and I didn’t like anything on his. We did agree on naming a girl after my grandmother only because he discovered it was one of his relative’s names too. At the last minute, we somehow agreed on a middle name. We were planning to call her by her first name, but after she was born, we decided she didn’t look like an old granny and decided to call her by her middle name. I don’t even remember what boy name we had chosen.
@Massmom- if we named kids after who they looked like at birth… well those would be some interesting names!
Similar to @musicmom1215 we had girls named picked… in our case we planned on using a double name (south?). The first name is a classic name and middle is family name that could be unisex although it’s been used for three generations for a girl. When she was born it wasn’t a week or so before we knew she wasn’t double name, she was middle name. That’s what she goes by even though I swore I wouldn’t use a middle name. It fits.
I have friends that picked Blair as a name for whatever gender. Had a boy. I had only heard as girl name before but not so frequently that it seemed too “girly.” I think names and how people perceive them are personal. I refused to consider my H middle name for a boy because I knew someone growing up with that name and it wasn’t a positive image in my head.
Well, ours came with names (adopted) and we felt strongly that they owned them. No changing those, for us. But we instantly agreed on the middle names. (You don’t want to know what those originally were.)
Neither my grandmother nor MIL used their official first names for long, but we liked them. So, D1 got my grandmother’s (a popular children’s fiction character) and D2 got MIL’s (she didn’t like the nickname and started going my her middle name in hs.) The latter turned out to be used for a woman in each generation, back 100+ years. So, satisfying to us.
The dog got the nickname MIL rejected.
But back when children were just an idea, I liked the boy name, Laird. DH refused. In line with the idea to be sure a name doesn’t cause future issues, DH was convinced other kids would call him “Lard.” Oh, well.
@wis75 I agree with you on names. I have boys and there was no unisex, no trendy, no chance to a lot of names. The one thing we agreed one parent Irish, one Italian and no strong names either way. Note, I also haven’t suggested names here, mostly reading ideas and silently voting yes or no!
One of our first rules off the bat was no naming kiddo after anyone in the family and no living family members -first or middle name.
His family has a very limited pool of names so even cousins get the same name and it is annoying imo. But someone was bound to be hurt if we gave them a family name from one side and not the other. There’s not really any name we want to use anyway so that was easy.
You can pick a masculine name and might find it’s feminine before adulthood. James and Kyle are two such contenders.
The reality is that kids can find something to mock with almost any name.
@lookingforward - I really like Laird ; )
My g/f wanted to name her baby girl Lily. My friend had pale skin, enormous blue eyes, and black hair; lovely, delicate. Well, the girl baby came out with red hair, stocky, just like daddy. So, they did not use Lily. The name they used was much more fitting.
Names like James are still predominantly masculine, despite an occasional celebrity’s use for a daughter. If I hear James, I assume it is a boy. Jamie has a more unisex feel to me.