Girls given male names

[brentspeak]

Apparently, this kind of thing wasn't unheard of in the past.

Stanley Dunham -- Obama's mother

Michael Learned - actress who played Olivia Walton on The Waltons

Who else?

[HopeHoops]

1. I went to high school (late 70's) with a girl named Alex. Not Alexandria or anything - just Alex.

Her younger sister was named Kevin. Her parents REALLY wanted a boy!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. There was a female cheerleader on a reality show a couple of years ago named Ryan, and I

know of a woman named Corey.

[rcrush]

3. That blonde lady on Scrubs

[Ptah]

4. My father and sister have the same first name

[Bunny]

5. I have a woman friend named Joel.

My fifth-grade teacher had a sister named Werdna, which was her father's name, spelled backwards. No shit.

[Richardo]

8. "Werdna"? Could have been worse, I suppose,

....if her dad had been known as 'Kid'. :D

[Bunny]

9. HAHAHA!

:D

[onestepforward]

6. I worked with a woman named George.

She was the fifth child and the fifth girl. Her dad named her after him. :)

[Bucky]

7. Of course any woman named Bambi is going by a masculine name

The only one I can think of, right off the bat is wrestler Selina "Bambi" Majors

But do you really require a second example?

All man ==>

[Haole Girl]

10. I know a woman named "Kyle"

It is killing me... I want to ask her why. But there just isn't a polite way to ask.

[hippywife]

11. Sometimes they are family surnames.

I think Michael is kind of neat as a woman's name. :shrug:

[annabanana]

12. I know a lady of my Mother's generation (mid 80's) named Sydney.

Was that a woman's name in England before the man's name "Sidney" was more familiar? or what?

What else would explain the spelling difference?

[madamesilverspurs]

13. Glenn Close,

and Christopher Norris, who played Nurse Ripples on Trapper John MD.