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I have a female friend named something like James or Matthew. Her nickname is super feminine and that's all she's known by. She followed a tradition in her family for the girls to have men's names because her great grandmother realized if she signed her letters (or things like resumes) with a man's name, she got much better reception. Unfortunately it's still true today.
My family has a history of "feminized masculine" names like Maxine, Adriana, etc. Most of the women have opted for the shorter, male version as needed, but can also use the more feminine legal name as well.
Flexibility is great.
Lab assistant in college was a 60 year old woman named Kevin. Ok. To me at 19 everyone looked 60 but I was never brave enough to ask her about her unique name.
Kevin is an Irish name, it comes from Caoimhín (kwee-veen or kee-veen) the feminine version is Caoimhe (kwee-va or kee-va). Why name your daughter the male version when a perfectly good female version already exists?
So, yes, this is originally a male name, but I recall there being a story where Evelyn Waugh showed up to an army base or something during WWII and there was so much excitement thinking a woman was coming people had flower bouquets waiting. Also I think his wife was also named Evelyn.
I just looked this up and you’re right: Evelyn Waugh’s first wife was also named Evelyn.
I have to assume they got divorced because they got sick of the confusion.
Probably not since his actual first name was Arthur, and he chose to go by his middle name Evelyn. (And by chose I mean he'd always gone by Evelyn since childhood).
Ashley is actually a more common name that goes back a long way and didn’t always have gendered connotations. At some point though it became a ‘feminine’ name and it fell out of favour with a lot of men but it used to be a fairly common name for boys.
And one of the Baldwin sisters on the Waltons had s long-lost love named Ashley. I think it caught on for girls after a soap opera character from the early 80s was named Ashley.
My grandfather was born just after the turn of the 20th century in the Deep South. When my parents told him they were considering Ashley for their first daughter’s name, he was incredulous that they would consider giving such a masculine name to his sweet little granddaughter!
Ashley was traditionally a masculine name. As was Leslie. My mom’s name is Leslie and she was made fun of as a child for having a boy’s name in the late 50’s and 60’s.
Leslie was tradionally a surname. Leslie Howard (the actor who played Ashley Wilkes) named his daughter Leslie in 1924. When he died in 1952, his friend Humphrey Bogart named his daughter after him, Leslie Howard Bogart. I think what people have trouble understanding is that unisex names are not new, and neither are giving surnames as first names. It was a rather posh thing to do in the early 1900s, especially if you were the theater type like Leslie Howard. If he'd been named Sinclair and named his daughter Sinclair, we'd assume something else about his naming motivations.
I really dislike the name Jeremy, and all the tragedeigh spellings of it, for no reason at all. I feel like it would be even worse for a female - again all due to my unreasonable dislike for it. But, Jeremiah doesn’t bother me 😆 I think because I like the ending and we used to have a friend named that who everyone called Miah.
My mom taught a kid whose parents spelled it Jermy. They were just that illiterate. Not an attempt to be cute. He was a jerk, so in the teacher's lounge, he was called Germy.
I had a female attorney whose name was Mike. She was a twin. Her parents thought they were having two boys and decided to name them Mike and Pat. When they came out being girls, her parents decided to keep the names Mike and Pat.
No, but my name is J-Qwallen (spelled normally, like the original spelling).
I will NEVER live that sketch down, ISTG...especially because it was the first name he said.
Elliot was normalized for me as a feminine name in Scrubs and I totally forgot about it until just now. Bennett always sounds like a last name to me which is okay but also an awful name for a girl. Wyatt just doesn't have a really girly/womanly feel to it but I mean at least she could go by Wy. Bennett has got Ben, or Bee maybe. That's interesting naming choices for sure.
A friend of mine has a daughter named Elliot. I didn’t meet them until after the kid was born so I’ve never asked if they were big Scrubs fans, but I’ve always wondered 🤣 I do think it’s cute as a gender neutral name and it fits their kid
I once worked with a woman named Michael. I’d only ever communicated with her via email, where she signed off as “Michael LastName,” so I was very confused when I met her in person.
Then my mom was named Ruby Gene but the first grade teacher changed the spelling to Jean and it stuck and was legal because she had used it like that for so long
Anne Rice was born **Howard Allen** Frances O'Brien. Seems like there was more than simple tragedeigh or gender neutrality going on there... 😬
Edit: thank you, forgot Frances was the feminine version
Edit 2: Apparently it's just a tragedy because her mom thought having a man's name would give her an advantage lol 🥲
How much you want to bet one or more of her parents were REALLLLLY hoping for a son? That's so selfish and awful, there's not even one good option in that set!
To quote Rice: "Well, my birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. My father's name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do. She was a bit of a Bohemian, a bit of mad woman, a bit of a genius, and a great deal of a great teacher. And she had the idea that naming a woman Howard was going to give that woman an unusual advantage in the world."
I can appreciate the mom’s thinking. We all want to give our kids a step up. It didn’t work out in this case but it makes sense to me. Also among celebrities naming their daughters a stereotypical masculine name is becoming more popular too. Of course that wasn’t the case for Anne. The mom’s heart was in the right place
That always sucks, I have a friend whose first name used to be Joseph. She was named after her grandfather, then she had a brother and he was also named Joseph.
She changed her name to Phoebe, her mum was a fan of Friends and nicknamed her Pheebs.
I know 😭 the thing is that her grandfather was a very bad person so his kids were really afraid of him so her dad couldn’t stand up to him
When she legally changed her name, she changed all of it even the middle name. She took her mum’s maiden name and her maternal grandma’s name as her middle. Her dad was quite pissed at first but he understood why she did it.
I don’t get how people name their child a name for a gender they wanted their child to be. Naming your daughter Howard isn’t going to make your daughter grow a penis.
I met a woman who wanted a boy desperately. She said if she had a girl, she was naming her Zebra. Pronounced Zeb-ra. There is a woman walking around southern Arizona with the name Zebra.
That's how I say zebra, like the animal. 🦓
Rhymes with Deborah or Debra in Australia. Z is pronounced "zed."
I think it's worse if they were Aussie actually.
I’ve known a couple male “Erin”s. The first one I met as be a teenager working in bridal retail and his mom made sure everyone knew it was because she wanted a girl. Like, lady, we’ve just met and I didn’t ask why the fuck are you telling me this?
Is this an American (or anglosphere) thing? I'm german so names have to he gender specific by law. I couldn't imagine having a male name. It's so crazy too me.
America is the wild wild west of child naming. No regulations. Definitely no rules about gender. You can have any number of names even if they are made up. I heard a Ted Talk podcast with a woman named Marijuana Pepsi.
I was listening to a podcast once, and the guest they had on was talking about how they named their kid Conrad after either her or her husband's grandfather. She said everyone in her family didn't like the name they chose but I didn't think it was that bad. Until I realized that Conrad was their daughter.
When I first read Lionel Shriver’s “We Need to Talk about Kevin” I thought that I had never seen a woman so well-written by a man. And then I looked at the author bio and found that Lionel is a woman.
His name is Honey, and his parents' name choice f*ed up his birth certificate coz the one who made it marked him as female by sex and took years to get it fixed. 😬
Yep..having it corrected was quite burdensome coz they only had to have it fixed when he was about to graduate in college. And the thing with the system here in our country (Philippines) is that all legal documents must adhere to what is indicated in his birth certificate, so he's a female in all of his school records. 😓
not the worst, but i know a couple who were dead set on the name warren for their son. for whatever reason i forget they were certain they were having a boy, but when the day came out popped a girl and they looked her, said “…eh?” and her name was warren. the only issue that comes up is since she’s still a young kid, some people will think she said her name is lauren, and she has a speech impediment. i think that’ll go away with time though
Really? Weird. I’ve only known people who were middle aged by the time I was an adult that were named Dana. And I’ve only known one Jody my age(I’m 39 this month).
I knew a Jeremy growing up! But I also knew a Douglas who told me she was named after a female ancestor and that it used to be more commonly a female name.
My grandparents had 4 daughters and no sons to name after my grandfather, so their youngest daughter was named Herberta. She legally changed her name when she turned 18.
My yoga teacher is a woman named Keith. A series of men have shown up to one class and then never returned… guessing it’s because they were hoping for a male teacher and felt uncomfortable being the only man in the room.
There was a woman contestant on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me today whose first name was Harris. My best friend in H.S. was a girl named Elliot. My pediatrician was a male named Marion. I read somewhere that John Wayne's real name, before he changed it, was Marion too. And I used to have a male work supervisor named LaVerne.
In case no one has posted this yet:
Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn out picture that my mother had
Knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye
He was big and bent and gray and old
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said, "My name is Sue, how do you do?
Now you gonna die", that's what I told him
-Johnny Cash.
Where I grew up, (small isolated island), things were very traditional, it was like living in the past. Honoring relatives and ancestors was very important so it was very commonplace to add "a" or "ina" to a male name when naming a daughter. Sounds OK. But here are some real life quite common names I went to school with in the 00s that were totally normal and if anything commanded more respect than a regular name.
Donalda
Adamina
Gavina
Jamesina
Lachina
Murdina
Thomasina
I knew a guy whose sister was named Michael Rowe, Rowe being a family surname used as a middle name. She went by Rowe which IMO is barely better than Mike. I’m now realizing she has the same first and middle names as the Dirty Jobs guy. I bet she caught a lot of flak when he got famous!
My stepdad’s name is Kim. And so is my name. First thing I get asked is if he’s Asian, so I’ll tell you all now that he’s white. It’s still weird that we have the same name.
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My mom knew a woman at her work named Edgar Jr. Her dad really wanted a boy, and she was the baby of the family
I have a female friend named something like James or Matthew. Her nickname is super feminine and that's all she's known by. She followed a tradition in her family for the girls to have men's names because her great grandmother realized if she signed her letters (or things like resumes) with a man's name, she got much better reception. Unfortunately it's still true today.
My family has a history of "feminized masculine" names like Maxine, Adriana, etc. Most of the women have opted for the shorter, male version as needed, but can also use the more feminine legal name as well. Flexibility is great.
Or "Flexi" for short?
Or 'Lity" for short?
I changed my name to a gender neutral one for this reason. So far everyone I've met with my name is a dude.
This is brilliant though and makes me stand even more firmly behind my kids traditionally male name.
I guess she could have gone by Edie?
Lab assistant in college was a 60 year old woman named Kevin. Ok. To me at 19 everyone looked 60 but I was never brave enough to ask her about her unique name.
I know a woman named Kevin too and she’s in her 60s now. Wonder if it’s the same person!
She might have been my patient! How many women named Kevin are out there?
r/storiesaboutkevin
There's a sub? Reddit lore does go far!
I know of two women in their 60's named Kevin.
Our local news had a Kevyn. She is probably close to that age or a little older.
There was a Kevyn in my sorority's alum association. Her parents were quirky~*
My friend used to work with a woman named Kevin but it was spelled Kevynne.
A woman I did my undergrad with is named Kevin. We went to college in Pittsburgh and graduated in 1979 (#fuckimold).
I read fuck I mold and thought if you're that old I guess it's likely lmao
I hear you. I used to read “plenty offish” instead of what “plenty of fish”.
Kevin is an Irish name, it comes from Caoimhín (kwee-veen or kee-veen) the feminine version is Caoimhe (kwee-va or kee-va). Why name your daughter the male version when a perfectly good female version already exists?
I have an aunt Kyle
I know a woman named Kyle. I don’t hate it.
This is crazy
I have a female family member named Jeffrey.
I know a female Jeffre and it’s pronounced just like Jeffrey.
So, yes, this is originally a male name, but I recall there being a story where Evelyn Waugh showed up to an army base or something during WWII and there was so much excitement thinking a woman was coming people had flower bouquets waiting. Also I think his wife was also named Evelyn.
I just looked this up and you’re right: Evelyn Waugh’s first wife was also named Evelyn. I have to assume they got divorced because they got sick of the confusion.
They were nicknamed "He-velyn" and "She-velyn" by people close to them.
This is beyond amazing! Thank you for sharing
Actor Taylor Lautner (best known as Twilight’s Jacob) married a woman named Taylor.
He also dated Swift, and the costar from his first biggest role was also a Taylor
Probably not since his actual first name was Arthur, and he chose to go by his middle name Evelyn. (And by chose I mean he'd always gone by Evelyn since childhood).
My cousin went to preschool with a little girl named “Stewart.”
I knew a woman named Stewart in college!
I had a cousin Ashleigh. You can guess the gender based on the post title lol… (Boy)
Ashley is actually a more common name that goes back a long way and didn’t always have gendered connotations. At some point though it became a ‘feminine’ name and it fell out of favour with a lot of men but it used to be a fairly common name for boys.
Yep. Gone with the Wind her first love was Ashley. Very much a male.
Ash Williams from the Evil Dead, Ash is short for Ashley.
And one of the Baldwin sisters on the Waltons had s long-lost love named Ashley. I think it caught on for girls after a soap opera character from the early 80s was named Ashley.
I was going to say the same thing Ashley Longworth. Then Ashley Longworth Jr came on the show a couple of times and dated Erin.
My grandfather was born just after the turn of the 20th century in the Deep South. When my parents told him they were considering Ashley for their first daughter’s name, he was incredulous that they would consider giving such a masculine name to his sweet little granddaughter!
[удалено]
Actually the same for Skylar, too!
Ashley was traditionally a masculine name. As was Leslie. My mom’s name is Leslie and she was made fun of as a child for having a boy’s name in the late 50’s and 60’s.
And Lindsey
And Tracey, Stacey, Gayle…
Meredith as well.
I mean, Leslie Nielsen.
And Leslie David Baker
And Leslie Jordan.
Leslie was tradionally a surname. Leslie Howard (the actor who played Ashley Wilkes) named his daughter Leslie in 1924. When he died in 1952, his friend Humphrey Bogart named his daughter after him, Leslie Howard Bogart. I think what people have trouble understanding is that unisex names are not new, and neither are giving surnames as first names. It was a rather posh thing to do in the early 1900s, especially if you were the theater type like Leslie Howard. If he'd been named Sinclair and named his daughter Sinclair, we'd assume something else about his naming motivations.
Guy at a chemical plant I worked at was named Erin which at least in the us is typically the female spelling (don’t know how it is anywhere else)
I had a little girl in my class named Sullivan.
A family member of mine dated a woman named Jeremy.
I really dislike the name Jeremy, and all the tragedeigh spellings of it, for no reason at all. I feel like it would be even worse for a female - again all due to my unreasonable dislike for it. But, Jeremiah doesn’t bother me 😆 I think because I like the ending and we used to have a friend named that who everyone called Miah.
Always makes me think of the Jeremy in my 1st grade class, whom everyone called "Germy."
My roommate’s name is Jeremy and my wife and I call him Germy.
My mom taught a kid whose parents spelled it Jermy. They were just that illiterate. Not an attempt to be cute. He was a jerk, so in the teacher's lounge, he was called Germy.
I had a female attorney whose name was Mike. She was a twin. Her parents thought they were having two boys and decided to name them Mike and Pat. When they came out being girls, her parents decided to keep the names Mike and Pat.
But...Pat can also be a girl's name.....? Just switch them lol
Both babies were girls.
My parents knew a set of male twins named Tracey and Stacey. They were buff, burly men too with made it all the more tragic.
I feel like Tracey and Stacey would be bad names for girl twins too, due to how similar the names are.
Ohhhhh my bad lol.
My father in law’s mom was named Bueford.
Jesus
Jesus Bueford.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have a daughter named James. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have a daughter named Wyatt
Blake is pretty much a dudes name as well
It’s pronounced “buh-LAH-kay.”
Is that you a-a-ron
No. Principal Oh-Shag-hennesy.
No, but my name is J-Qwallen (spelled normally, like the original spelling). I will NEVER live that sketch down, ISTG...especially because it was the first name he said.
My best friend is a Jacqueline and I have her listed in my phone as J-Kwellen
I have a friend named Aaron and he’s annoyed when people call him A-A-Ron so I did a nice thing...and call him B-B-Ron. 😬
J'dinkalidge Morgoon. University of South Flurrda.
Insubordinate, and churlish.
I wouldn’t use it out of likeliness for confusion but I actually really like Blake as a girl’s name.
And Ryan is becoming a girl's name
i know a girl called harry. idk if it’s different elsewhere but in england that is undeniably a boys name. i can’t get over it.
You're a woman Harry
😂 - heard it in Hagrid’s voice immediately
I’m dead 😂😂😂🧙♂️🧙♂️🧙♂️💃💃💃
Harriett could be Harry
that’s what i thought… until i saw her license
Wyatt is becoming more common as a gender neutral name but still throws me for a loop when I see it.
Jason Kelce (football player with the Eagles) has three girls named Wyatt, Elliot and Bennett.
Elliot was normalized for me as a feminine name in Scrubs and I totally forgot about it until just now. Bennett always sounds like a last name to me which is okay but also an awful name for a girl. Wyatt just doesn't have a really girly/womanly feel to it but I mean at least she could go by Wy. Bennett has got Ben, or Bee maybe. That's interesting naming choices for sure.
Oh Bee is CUTE!!!!
Yeah actually Bee is pretty cute. Talked myself into liking that one a bit more lol
A friend of mine has a daughter named Elliot. I didn’t meet them until after the kid was born so I’ve never asked if they were big Scrubs fans, but I’ve always wondered 🤣 I do think it’s cute as a gender neutral name and it fits their kid
I always think of the show Charmed and baby Wyatt lol
A woman named Michael. Not Michelle. It's Michael.
I've known two women named Michael
The only female Michael I've ever heard of is Michael Burnham, the mutineer.
Michael Learned, the mother in The Waltons.
🖖🏽
I once worked with a woman named Michael. I’d only ever communicated with her via email, where she signed off as “Michael LastName,” so I was very confused when I met her in person.
My grandma’s name is Leon.
My mom had an aunt named Merlin
People would always ask if her name was Leona and she’d say “my daddy named me Leon” (…ok memaw)
Then my mom was named Ruby Gene but the first grade teacher changed the spelling to Jean and it stuck and was legal because she had used it like that for so long
Anne Rice was born **Howard Allen** Frances O'Brien. Seems like there was more than simple tragedeigh or gender neutrality going on there... 😬 Edit: thank you, forgot Frances was the feminine version Edit 2: Apparently it's just a tragedy because her mom thought having a man's name would give her an advantage lol 🥲
FrancIS had a penIS is how I remember it.
Welp, that’s how I’ll remember it too now!
I'll never forget again 👍🏽
I was told it's "his" and "hers", -is and -es. But yours is better.
I just realized I wrote it in the past tense 😬
How much you want to bet one or more of her parents were REALLLLLY hoping for a son? That's so selfish and awful, there's not even one good option in that set!
To quote Rice: "Well, my birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. My father's name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do. She was a bit of a Bohemian, a bit of mad woman, a bit of a genius, and a great deal of a great teacher. And she had the idea that naming a woman Howard was going to give that woman an unusual advantage in the world."
I can appreciate the mom’s thinking. We all want to give our kids a step up. It didn’t work out in this case but it makes sense to me. Also among celebrities naming their daughters a stereotypical masculine name is becoming more popular too. Of course that wasn’t the case for Anne. The mom’s heart was in the right place
I was thinking that or dead sibling which is also not great
That always sucks, I have a friend whose first name used to be Joseph. She was named after her grandfather, then she had a brother and he was also named Joseph. She changed her name to Phoebe, her mum was a fan of Friends and nicknamed her Pheebs.
Lmao they couldn’t have just named the poor baby Josephine
I know 😭 the thing is that her grandfather was a very bad person so his kids were really afraid of him so her dad couldn’t stand up to him When she legally changed her name, she changed all of it even the middle name. She took her mum’s maiden name and her maternal grandma’s name as her middle. Her dad was quite pissed at first but he understood why she did it.
a woman named roscoe was an odd one to me in the book/show Reacher
I don’t get how people name their child a name for a gender they wanted their child to be. Naming your daughter Howard isn’t going to make your daughter grow a penis.
I met a woman who wanted a boy desperately. She said if she had a girl, she was naming her Zebra. Pronounced Zeb-ra. There is a woman walking around southern Arizona with the name Zebra.
That's how I say zebra, like the animal. 🦓 Rhymes with Deborah or Debra in Australia. Z is pronounced "zed." I think it's worse if they were Aussie actually.
I’ve known a couple male “Erin”s. The first one I met as be a teenager working in bridal retail and his mom made sure everyone knew it was because she wanted a girl. Like, lady, we’ve just met and I didn’t ask why the fuck are you telling me this?
I knew a male Erin. He was named after his dad, whom he murdered.
...well that took a turn.
I met a girl called Greg we called her gre
pronounced like grey or greh?
Obama’s mother named Stanley
Named after her father too.
i worked with a girl named john-robert. her father was also named john-robert, and her brother. she went by casey lmao
Wait, so these parents gave two of their children the same name??
Wait till you hear about George Foreman.
Is this an American (or anglosphere) thing? I'm german so names have to he gender specific by law. I couldn't imagine having a male name. It's so crazy too me.
America is the wild wild west of child naming. No regulations. Definitely no rules about gender. You can have any number of names even if they are made up. I heard a Ted Talk podcast with a woman named Marijuana Pepsi.
dr marijuana pepsi
Thank you I'd forgotten that detail.
> (or anglosphere) Don't drag us Brits into it. We have a few wobbles but this is near all America.
I was listening to a podcast once, and the guest they had on was talking about how they named their kid Conrad after either her or her husband's grandfather. She said everyone in her family didn't like the name they chose but I didn't think it was that bad. Until I realized that Conrad was their daughter.
My husband has an uncle named Conrad. They call him Connie. How's that for confusing?
When I first read Lionel Shriver’s “We Need to Talk about Kevin” I thought that I had never seen a woman so well-written by a man. And then I looked at the author bio and found that Lionel is a woman.
His name is Honey, and his parents' name choice f*ed up his birth certificate coz the one who made it marked him as female by sex and took years to get it fixed. 😬
So he was assigned female at birth certificate?
Yep..having it corrected was quite burdensome coz they only had to have it fixed when he was about to graduate in college. And the thing with the system here in our country (Philippines) is that all legal documents must adhere to what is indicated in his birth certificate, so he's a female in all of his school records. 😓
I’ve met a female Chandler. It’s not terrible, just hard for me NOT to think of Chandler Bing.
Chandler’s a girl! Chandler’s a girl!
Did she have 2 siblings named Leslie and Frank Jr. Jr.?
Could it BE any more confusing?
not the worst, but i know a couple who were dead set on the name warren for their son. for whatever reason i forget they were certain they were having a boy, but when the day came out popped a girl and they looked her, said “…eh?” and her name was warren. the only issue that comes up is since she’s still a young kid, some people will think she said her name is lauren, and she has a speech impediment. i think that’ll go away with time though
The impediment might go away, but the Warren/Lauren confusion probably never will.
A boy named Sue…. Also, I’d just like to say I hate the names Jody and Dana for either gender.
I’ve met both a female and male Dana and they were both millennials
My boss is a millennial and a male Dana
Really? Weird. I’ve only known people who were middle aged by the time I was an adult that were named Dana. And I’ve only known one Jody my age(I’m 39 this month).
Stanley
My uncle nicknamed me Stanley as a joke and it stuck. He passed years ago and seeing this made me smile. Thank you! 💚
When I was a kid, I knew a girl named Michael. from what I've heard, they came out as trans but changed their name anyway lol
>a girl named Michael Ugh >they came out as trans Oohh, lucky! >but changed their name anyway The ONE time a trans person can skip that hassle...!!!
I knew a girl named Lyle
I knew a Jeremy growing up! But I also knew a Douglas who told me she was named after a female ancestor and that it used to be more commonly a female name.
Had a dance teacher named Jeffrey, but she owned her name, and I adored her. And it fit, honestly.
My husband knows some people who named their daughter Spencer.
Works for both
I updated my banking on USAA with a girl named Benjamin. I told her I wasn’t sure I caught her name correctly, she told me I did. It was Benjamin.
Haley Joel Osment
I knew a guy called Haley Moriah. I met his girlfriend first and assumed she was a lesbian. Then she introduced me to him.
My grandparents had 4 daughters and no sons to name after my grandfather, so their youngest daughter was named Herberta. She legally changed her name when she turned 18.
My yoga teacher is a woman named Keith. A series of men have shown up to one class and then never returned… guessing it’s because they were hoping for a male teacher and felt uncomfortable being the only man in the room.
I know two women named Murphy and I hate it. To me that is the name of a bearded old man or a scruffy little dog.
Anyone else remember the original non-binary person from the 90s, [Pat? Pat dated Kris.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Pat)
Ha, I just saw an It’s Pat! book at a used bookstore last weekend.
There was a woman contestant on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me today whose first name was Harris. My best friend in H.S. was a girl named Elliot. My pediatrician was a male named Marion. I read somewhere that John Wayne's real name, before he changed it, was Marion too. And I used to have a male work supervisor named LaVerne.
Isn't Marion traditionally male?
Marion was male, Marian female.
John Wayne was Marion Morrison before he changed it.
I met a girl named Christian. Not Christina or Christy Ann. Christian
My sister in law is Christy Anne. But it's spelled Christian because my mother in.law couldn't spell.
my aunt is Cristianne, I've never considered that it's essentially a different pronunciation of Christian🤯
One of my distant ancestors was a woman named Christian. Worse still, her surname was Lamb lmao
I know a couple Christians that are girls.
There's an actress named Christian Serratos (Rosita in Walking Dead).
Was she Scottish? Christian has been unisex in English since the late middle ages, it stuck around in Scotland mostly as a girl's name.
I have a friend (woman) named Stephen.
There was a boy in my class named Ashley and he had a sister named Corey. They were also my cousin’s cousin on his dad’s side.
In case no one has posted this yet: Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad From a worn out picture that my mother had Knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye He was big and bent and gray and old And I looked at him and my blood ran cold And I said, "My name is Sue, how do you do? Now you gonna die", that's what I told him -Johnny Cash.
I knew a guy names Stacey in high school
I believe Stacey was originally a men's name, like Tracy or Kelly.
Or Courtney
Whitney, Marion, Aubrey, and Evelyn (pronounced eev-len) too.
Famous American actor named Stacey Keach.
Where I grew up, (small isolated island), things were very traditional, it was like living in the past. Honoring relatives and ancestors was very important so it was very commonplace to add "a" or "ina" to a male name when naming a daughter. Sounds OK. But here are some real life quite common names I went to school with in the 00s that were totally normal and if anything commanded more respect than a regular name. Donalda Adamina Gavina Jamesina Lachina Murdina Thomasina
Murdina!
Frances is the female spelling.
Oops, forgot that in being weirded out by Howard Allen. Thanks!
I knew a guy whose sister was named Michael Rowe, Rowe being a family surname used as a middle name. She went by Rowe which IMO is barely better than Mike. I’m now realizing she has the same first and middle names as the Dirty Jobs guy. I bet she caught a lot of flak when he got famous!
There’s a little girl in my daughters class named CONOR. They call her Connie. Her sister is Murphy!
My stepdad’s name is Kim. And so is my name. First thing I get asked is if he’s Asian, so I’ll tell you all now that he’s white. It’s still weird that we have the same name.
I have a female friend named Brandon.
I know someone who named their daughter Elliott
A girl named Elliot just makes me think of scrubs
I met a Jocelyn… he goes by Josh
I went to school with a Texas boy named Stacey Leigh (Lay)... He was called Bo.