Laurie
Cameron (Diaz).
My Grandfather was named Marion.
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There used to be a woman named Kevin working here. I’m thinking this is still pretty rare, though.
They are nicknames, but I also know women who go by Donnie, Tommy, and Frankie.
Over 40 posts and no one mentions Jamie/Jaime?
Is one spelling considered the more masculine verson and one the feminine?
Actually, it only took 12. 
Darcy
Frances/Francis
My best friend will be having a little girl next month. They’re going to name her Hayden.
I warned her that people will think she’s naming her daughter after Darth Vader 
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That’ll teach me not to read properly.
Jesse/Jessie
Oh! That’s one thing I always found puzzling about the Anne Of Green Gables series. She had all those kids (like 7) and she sticks one of the boys with her maiden name? It never occured to me that Shirley might not have been weird for a little boy back in the day.
I’m a Shannon(f) and have met a few guys with the same name. They seem to hate it as much as Courtney hated his name in college. My grandfather’s name was Pearly. That always struck me as being girly, yet I’ve never run across a female Pearly, just Pearl.
Feh. That’s what I thought until I worked with a male jerk named Erin. I blamed his name for his foul personality.
Some parents seem to think that any boys name ending in -an (-anne) is fair game for girls, thus Ryan becomes Ryanne, Logan becomes Loganne… others don’t bother to modify the spelling.
Four years ago, I would have said Riley was a boy’s name. Now it seems to be more of a girl’s name.
Shirley Povich, the noted sportswriter whose son Maury gained fame as a talk-show host, died in 1998 at the age of 92.
Pearl was the actual first name of the novelist who gained fame as Zane Grey. He and your grandfather could have commiserated.
Journalist Ulysses Torassa was formerly employed at the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, my old hometown newspaper. I always (quite reasonably, I thought) assumed Torassa was male until I read a column in which a woman named Deborah Winston described the vacation she took with several female colleagues, including Ulysses! Deborah’s photo often appeared in the paper, but I never saw Torassa’s until I found the linked story a few minutes ago.
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cornflakes there are Clyde rivers in Scotland, Canada and Australia, but not in Ireland.
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Sean/Shawn is Irish for John, I’m not entirely sure how it got to be a girl’s name. Nor am I sure why Rory is unisex either.
Jan
Florence
I’ve read the whole thread and I don’t think I saw either of those.
The lady who played the mother in The Waltons was called Michael Learned.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. My daughter has two friends named Avery, one male, one female.