I am sure some of you have one and I wonder if you even notice?
Signed Harry.
One what? Notice what?
What mean ambiguous? Ambiguous in what way? Here in the land of leftover hippies we have all kinds of non-traditional names, but I’m not sure how ambiguous they are.
Do you mean like Kelly, a name that could be for a male or for a female?
This is a rather ambiguous OP.
Signed,
Jamie (who isn’t very hairy).
Mine is a name that is 99% male, but then some smartass decides to name their daughter that. It’s not cultural, either, like the name Sharon. Although I’d think there are even fewer females with my name in Ireland. Don’t notice but if girls have the name it sets me on edge. I can think of two semi-famous ones.
Oh, Jaime is pretty much a unambiguous male name (hai-mi), but sometimes a girls name in an apparent create spelling of Jamie.
Well, sure, it could be any of a number of species.
Though many of the species do hybridize so it’s not always easy to pin down the exact species, and just the genus might be all you could really say.
The younger a woman, the more likely she has a unisex name, in my experience.
Got waited on by Kendall yesterday.
Girls name of Hudson, Avery, Harper, Addison are springing up more and more. Peyton, Sydney, Morgan…
Could you clarify what you want to discuss, please?
Actually, it’s pretty much 50/50- I literally just looked it up, 'cos I was sending a job application to someone with that name, and I wanted to check if I should address it to Mr or Ms.
She was a Ms, btw.
And what about all those poor people stuck with two first names? I can never remember which one comes first.
You’re right sorry, I should say that if you’re wagering, Jamie is likely female, Jaime male if paired with a Spanish surname especially. Occasionally there are males with that name, maybe short for something.
I lament that nobody names their boys anything manly anymore, like Vivian.
Go call Mr. Van Damme Claude-Jean, and his roundhouse will let you know about your mistake.
There was a girl named Jamie in the year above me in school, and girls named Sydney, Kelly, and Courtney in my grade. Yeah, those are women’s names now, but they all started out as guys’ names. And yeah, I meant to an all girl school.
My first name is really a nickname, and completely non-existent in English. In emails I often get replies to “Dear Mr. [gracer]”, but I can’t really blame them.
What does piss me off is when they presume I misspelled my own name and I get a reply to “Dear Mr. Mike”. You actually think I not only misspelled my signature, but I also got it wrong when I signed up for the email address?!
All this, and to top it off I once got a reply from Matalan customer services that opened with “Dear Mr. William Shakespeare”. OK, right at the bottom of my signature I have a Shakespeare quote, it’s after all the contact info and in cursive. But seriously, somebody in customer services actually types a reply to an email from William Shakespeare? I think he must’ve seen my name at the bottom and just couldn’t bothered with it.
I meet far more girls and women named Jamie/Jaime than I do men with that name.
One of the babies in my library storytime is named Crow. Boy or girl?
I would think Crow for a boy, Raven for a girl.
I didn’t wanna discuss nothing, figured what the hell, piss off an over sensitive mod.
I’m giving you an official warning for trolling. And closing the thread.
Ellen