# Girl names that used to be boy names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371 "2009-10-02T17:35:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371/161 "2011-10-09T04:31:58Z")
> [@Kalypso](#): > > Not a very common name, but my grandfather was Francis, after St. Francis. All the younger Fran’s I’ve met have been female. Francis must have been quite common; after all “Frank” was usually a nick for it. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371/162 "2011-10-09T22:29:19Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > Harper Lee’s been around a while 😛 > > The name Kelly came up the other day because a friend was surprised to see that a Facebook app called her name a male name. There are probably still men named Kelly, but none under forty or fifty. Untrue, my 16 year old son’s middle name is Kelly. (He’s named after his grandfather’s last name - and my maiden last name - and his first name is his great-grandfather’s last name, because his grandfather is adopted and didn’t take his father’s last name. Thus, he is Austin Kelly \.) ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371/163 "2011-10-10T14:23:05Z")
I’ll add Skyler/Skylar/Skyla. I knew it as a boy’s name spelled Schuyler. ---
**Author:** ![chartreuse\_w\_envy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@chartreuse\_w\_envy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chartreuse_w_envy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371/164 "2011-10-10T18:14:51Z")
Im pregnant now and we (me and the father) find out the sex 2 weeks from today =] If its a girl, she will be Harley~Quinn. If its a boy, Dorian, unless he’s born on my father’s birthday, then he will have my fathers name, James. I have definitely noticed cross using of names lately. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371/165 "2011-10-10T18:19:45Z")
And it better be spelled with a tilde too. Hyphens are so passé. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371/166 "2011-10-10T19:35:01Z")
I have now run across two girls named Cody. Well, one is actually Codie and the other one goes by Cody Jo so people will stop thinking she’s a boy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-names-that-used-to-be-boy-names/512371.md?page=8)