WHEN WILL IT STOP???

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WHEN WILL IT STOP???
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Thu, 03-08-2007 - 9:31pm

UGUGHHH!!!!!

I just went to one of our local hospitals virtual nurserys and guess what? Another name gone to the girls!!!

Since when did Grayson become an unisex name? I really liked this one (not for me to use but I know ALOT of boys w/ this name!) There she was pretty in pink Grayson Ann.

WDYT? I am slow? Are all boy names unisex?

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Registered: 02-06-2007
Fri, 03-09-2007 - 7:24pm
I agree with allietx. Grayson doesn't surprise me one bit. I have a unisex name. I don't see what the big


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Registered: 09-29-2005
Fri, 03-09-2007 - 7:46pm

Just for fun, I looked up Richard as a feminine name on the SSA site (knowing full well there were plenty of girls with traditional masculine names -- and boys with feminine names -- farther back on the list). I was still surprised, however. Richard was in the female top 1000 as recently as 1976 (and nearly every year before that, all the way back to 1919)!

Check it out! ;)

Girl Richards:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi

I used to assume many of these were simply misfiled, especially on the older lists, but that's too common to be a coincidence. I looked at the top 1000 from 1922, and there were 67 boys named Helen, 66 named Claire and Joy, 65 named Dorothy and even 186 named Mary. ;) That same year, there were 56 girls named Donald, 61 named simply Roy, 62 Harolds, 65 Jacks and 86 Walters. ;) Oh, and just for giggles, there also happened to be 64 named ... Dimple (not to mention 70 named Pinkie, 109 named Lovie and 186 named Dovie)! Think they'll hit the top ten anytime soon?

On a side note, those older lists can be great if you want to find some names other than Emily, Madison, Jacob and Aidan, if you KWIM. I even saw Elmira and Eudora on there (two of my grandmothers' names that haven't been in the top 1000 since the 1920s and '30s). It's really interesting. ;)


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Registered: 09-29-2005
Fri, 03-09-2007 - 7:48pm
Dawn is unisex?

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Fri, 03-09-2007 - 10:12pm
Well as far as I know its unisex, my grandfather was named Don and my dads middle name was Don. But I was refering to my first name, Rikki. Which happens to be my dads name as well(his was spelt Ricki).
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Registered: 09-29-2005
Fri, 03-09-2007 - 11:04pm

I did remember that Dawn wasn't your fn, but couldn't think what it actually was (thus the ). LOL

I never would have thought of Dawn as unisex ... definitely wasn't implying that. ;) Dawn and Don are pronounced quite differently, at least here in PA. Basically dAWn and dAHn. A subtle difference, but still as different as, say, Kate and Cade, Fawn and Finn or Gabrielle and Gabriel (all of which would generally be thought of in feminine or masculine terms, based on rather slight differences). ;)


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Sat, 03-10-2007 - 11:05am
It's just one of those annoying things that will never stop.






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