guys named Debbie/ Deborah

[Weeks]

While looking up an old friend, I came across this page that contained WAY too many guys with the name DEBBIE in their name. Maybe it contained WAY too many girls with the name Gary, or Bob or whatever.

Can anybody explain the black hole I’ve just stepped into. Is naming your child “one each” of the two known sexes’ names part of the Rex family tradition or is this just a weird anomaly?

I don’t mean to be rude, but you gotta admit( especially if you look at the second , and final, page of search results) that a page full of guys named deborah IS pretty weird.
WTF?
I’m not even sure what my question is I just don’t know what to make of this…

[bibliophage]

My guess would be that, for example, “Kenneth Debby Rex” is short for “Kenneth and Debby Rex”.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

My Grandfather was named Marion.

[mightyaphrodite]

Men with female names isn’t unusual. I work in a call centre and encounter it on a regular basis. For example:

Stacey
Tracey
Lindsay
Courtney

There are many more examples, these are just a few I could think of off hand.

[Weeks]

Yeah, and “I’m store” is short for " I’m going to go downtown and have a baby that I’m going to name Thomas Alice. Then I’m going to pick up a couple of packs of smokes at the store".:rolleyes:

[Primaflora]

Marion, Stacey, Tracey, Lindsay, Courtney have all been male names at one time or another. McKenzie FE is a female name in NZ but every McKenzie I’ve encountered in Australia is male.

Deborah’s never been a male name.

OK this is officially weird. I ran a couple of searches using Jane and Sarah Rex and none of the results returned came back with John Jane Rex or Bob Sarah Rex as I was expecting it to because I was speculating that it was a layout thing.

[racer72]

*Originally posted by bibliophage *
**My guess would be that, for example, “Kenneth Debby Rex” is short for “Kenneth and Debby Rex”. **

My brother and his wife are listed as Gary Cathy XXXXXXX.

[tomndebb]

My listing is Tom Deb Bxxxx.
Imagine that.

The various phone companies (whence the listings) do not always bother to insert “and” into the listing when couples are listed.

[Agback]

*Originally posted by mightyaphrodite *
**Men with female names isn’t unusual. [SNIP] For example:

Stacey
Tracey
Lindsay
Courtney**

Those are all originally family names, not girls’ names. My great-grandfather, for example, was William Courtney. Norman Lindsay was a famous Austalian writer and artist. Spencer Tracey was a famous film actor.

Some people give family names as personal names to boys, Other people give family names as personal names to girls. Yet other people do both.

Regards,
Agback

[AWB]

*Originally posted by mightyaphrodite *
**Men with female names isn’t unusual. I work in a call centre and encounter it on a regular basis. For example:

Stacey
Tracey
Lindsay
Courtney

There are many more examples, these are just a few I could think of off hand. **

Actually, Courtney is originally a boy’s name that became a girl’s name:

From Parenting.com

Courtney, like its sisters Brooke and Paige, Morgan and Blair, is a mega-fashionable androgynous name with a thick upper crust — a bit too thick, perhaps, for these less pretentious and prosperous times. An aristocratic British surname that was used as a first name for boys a hundred years ago but now has become almost exclusively female, it has been on the girls Top 25 list for several years now, has been seen on a couple of soap operas, and we’re afraid it has nowhere to go but down.

[doreen]

Our listing is Danny Doreen Dxxxxx, even though the phone company listing has the “and”.

[Tony_Montana]

Rosie or Rosey or whatever, I dont know their spelling, but I know of two guys named this…

[stockton]

*Originally posted by Tony Montana *
**Rosie or Rosey or whatever, I dont know their spelling, but I know of two guys named this… **

There’s also the great 60’s NFL standout Rosie Grier
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/sportstation-steinersports/roseygrier.html

… I’m pretty sure it’s actually short for “Roosevelt.”

[istara]

“Marie” can be used as a male name in France.

Witness Jean Marie Le Pen.

[mangeorge]

Sally, a friend of mine, is a man. There was also a Sally in The Godfather, And there was a restarunt in Mulberry St, in NYC, named Sally’s, after the owner, Salvatore.
There are also Kelly’s of both genders.
I’ve never ran accross a male Debbie.
Peace,
mangeorge

[mangeorge]

Oh, and Connie. Also from the above movie, I think. Connie Mack, baseball or something?

[Johanna]

*It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I’d get red
And some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head,
I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named “Sue.” *

[cornflakes]

There has been a Ransom in every generation of my mother’s family for several generations. About half of them were/are women.

[amanset]

Beverly is used as a men’s name in the UK, but it is starting to fall out of favour. Only old men seem to have it these days.

[Susanann]

*Originally posted by AWB *
**Actually, Courtney is originally a boy’s name that became a girl’s name:

From Parenting.com **

Stacey,Tracey,Lindsay,Courtney, Jordan, Madison, Kelley, Marie, Beverly, Marion(John Wayne), Candy, Connie, Brook, Morgan, Sandy, etc were all originally boy’s names that became girl’s names.

Men are very insecure, and phobic of anything feminine. Once something is identified as commonly being female(e.g.pink and purple), or a name like Jordan or Courtney becomes common for females, boys and men are teased, and it is thus abandoned for use by males.