Can “Marion” be a guy’s name? Regardless, what other unisex names are out there?
Stacey
Lynn
Robin
Leslie
Kelly
Carol (Caroll?)
What else? Thanks, - Jinx
Can “Marion” be a guy’s name? Regardless, what other unisex names are out there?
Stacey
Lynn
Robin
Leslie
Kelly
Carol (Caroll?)
What else? Thanks, - Jinx
Pat
Chris
Robin
Ryan
Erin
Taylor
Baily
Jan
Casey
My daughter’s name is Sam. (short for Samantha, but still.)
Wasn’t John Wayne’s name originally Marion Morrison?
Ashley
Allison
Pat
Another unisex name: Leigh / Lee
Lee
Jay
Yes. Marion is the more usual spelling for guys and Marian for girls, but that’s not a hard-and-fast rule.
IIRC, there is or was an Amfoot player by the name of Shannon Sharp…
My son is named Logan but I was going to name a daughter the same thing.
Tracy used to be a unisex name in the 19th century, and in fact the crooner who goes by the name of Ice T has Tracy as his real name. Traditionally Tracy was the masculine form of the name and Tracey was the feminine.
Other examples are Kelly and Kim.
Don’t forget Terry
Jordan
Angel
Bobby
Jamie
Mackenzie
Alexis
Andrea
Harley
Reagan
Jean
Sydney
Dylan (technically only male, but increasingly female, with variations)
That’s all I can name off the top of my head. Has Logan always been a girl’s name as well, or is that a recent trend?
kerry
Riley
Alex
Tony/i
Billy/ie
Anne Rice’s real first name is Howard, but I doubt that name’s going to become wildly popular for girls any time soon (not to mention all the female Southern writers with family names as first names - O’Connor, McCullers, Lee).
I’ve never heard of a guy named “Erin.” Are you referring to “Aaron”? That’s a homonym but I wouldn’t consider it to be the same name.
I knew a guy named Erin.
Seconded. (You may have read about him – he tried to kill his wife a while back in Milwaukee and is now in serious stir. :eek: )
Oh dear. Not the same guy!
Er, I hope!
jsgoddess and Scarlett67 (and belladonna, of course), consider my ignorance fought. I wonder if the male name “Erin” derives from the same source as the female “Erin” or if it is an alternate spelling for “Aaron.”
Good question. I just did a search on this site: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
For male Erin and found that it was 654th in 1990. That looks like the peak popularity in my cursory research.
Gah. Hit submit too soon.
And on this site: http://www.babyzone.com/babynames/babynamedisplay.asp?ID=5403
it says that it’s Gaelic, means “peace” and is a poetic name for Ireland, which is the same etymology they give for the female version.