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'Post-Gender' Baby Names

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by MisterCreosote, Aug 19, 2016.

  1. fossywriter8

    fossywriter8 Well-Known Member

    Went to college with a guy named Kris (football teammate, All-American linebacker) and a woman named Chris.
    Had a male high school teacher with the first name Lynn.
     
  2. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    If its not a d_b, Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish.
     
  3. rascalface

    rascalface Member

    Had a male science teacher in high school named Wynn. He used to say, "You call me Wynn, you lose."
     
  4. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    On that note, one of my favorite actors in my teens was Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland. (If Wiki is to be believed.)
     
  5. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    It's funny how you fall in love with names when you are thinking about kids.

    When we were having our last we had settled on a boys name that we loved and a girls name that we loved.

    Had we had a girl she would have been named Levi. We came pretty close to giving our son the middle name "Grace" for a few personal reasons but ended up giving him a traditional male name after my father in law.
     
  6. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    My youngest is in a Little Gym class with twins named Courtney and Wilson. Courtney is a boy and Wilson is a girl.
     
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  7. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Don't forget Tracy
     
  8. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Ours are Anna Claire and Cooper. Certainly not gender neutral, but about as southern as you can get, I think.
     
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  9. Sweet Jesus, It's no wonder we have transgender issues in this country!
     
  10. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    I went to school with a guy named Jarman, who was from Mississippi. I've been told it's not that unusual a name in the south, but I've never met another one.

    Also had a friend who went by his middle name of Mercer, as he was a junior. I like that name.

    We had a boy. Had it been a girl, her name was to have been Morgan, a name now associated with girls instead of boys.

    I think a goofily-spelled first name is much more of a hassle than a gender-neutral one.
     
  11. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    My parents say they can't remember why they picked my name. Must have read a book or article. A quick web search shows it was in the top 50 around the time I was born. Lots of association with the word "preppy." But I'm in good company with Bradley Cooper and Brad Pitt.
     
  12. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I was named after the founder of National Review.

    I have one kid named after my father and another kid named after the third king of Judah.
     
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