Gender-confused newspaper kids? Or me being ignorant?
Kerryee:
Was informed by my story mod today that there was a male baby born into my neighborhood named Amanda. Not ever in my life have I heard of Amanda being a gen-neutral name.
GelatinousSubstance:
Well, it is fitting: a-man-duh!
Roxxy:
Quote from: SolaceDevotio on 2009 July 21, 02:57:20
Quote from: Roxxy on 2009 July 21, 02:28:12
In my game I have had females with the following names;
Christopher
Parker
and males named;
Carol
Tracy
Angel
Lynne
I guess there is probably somewhere someone named with these gender neutral names, but they are very much uncommon and in my opinion quite odd.
Carol, Tracy, Angel, and Lynne can definitely be boys names! They are somewhat common, especially Angel for a boy in the highly Spanish speaking population where I come from. Parker can totally be female. But Christopher on a girl? No.
Oh I don't doubt it, and I was thinking when I typed this up that Angel was probably common in Latin speaking communities as a name. I read on another thread, someone mentioned that they knew a coworker who's baby girl was named Christopher and how much they liked the name. These names are gender neutral no doubt, but still some are not very common.
knightablaze:
Then there's the ultimately unfortunate situation of having two girl's names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Morgan...
caterpillar:
Charlotte Bronte wrote a novel called 'Shirley' in the 1840s. The title character, Shirley Keeldar, is a young woman whose parents wanted a son, so they gave her a boy's name, Shirley. Throughout the book, jokes are made about this girl's masculine name.
A lot of names we now think of as being exclusively female were actually once exclusively male names.
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