# Poll: What gender do you associate with these names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921 "2009-06-06T13:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/21 "2009-06-06T17:06:32Z")
Dylan : most predominently male Kendall : male only Stacy (Stacey) : female only Devon (Devin, Devyn) : unisex ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/22 "2009-06-06T17:11:06Z")
**Dylan** : traditionally male (and makes anyone my age or older undoubtedly think of Bob Dylan (or perhaps even Dylan Thomas (“Whoever he was.” -Simon & Garfunkel))), but nowadays, as with so many traditionally masculine names, it’s being taken over by the girls. (WTF is up with that, by the way? Sooner or later there won’t be any boy names left.) **Stacy** : Could be either. If you pressed me, I’d say it leans female (Stacy Keach notwithstanding). **Kendall** **Devon** Have no idea, since I’m not familiar with these names. If I had to guess, I’d guess female, because far more often it’s parents of girls that feel the need to get creative and cutesy and original when naming their babies. ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/23 "2009-06-06T17:16:56Z")
Dylan – I’ve only met boys, so that’s all I think, but I’ve seen girls in birth announcements and such. I don’t like that. Kendall – It seems more like a girl’s name (it’s my mom’s maiden name), but I’ve known about equal number of boys/girls. I once met a boy who spelled it Kyndal, which I thought was awfully girly (and bad). Stacy (Stacey) – Totally girl to me. I’ve never met a male Stacy, and only personally know of Stacy Keach for a male. Devon (Devin, Devyn) – The first time I ever heard Devyn, it was on a girl, so that’s what I’ve always thought of it as. Since then, I’ve met more boys (usually Devin). I still think of it as a girl’s name first though. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/24 "2009-06-06T18:06:52Z")
Dylan - Male Kendall - Female, but I know a male one Stacy (Stacey) - Female Devon (Devin, Devyn) - Male (presumably black) ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/25 "2009-06-06T18:19:59Z")
Dylan - male Kendall - predominantly male Stacy (Stacey) - female Devon (Devin, Devyn) - male, except maybe the last spelling ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/26 "2009-06-06T18:28:44Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Only M/F > Predominantly M/F (but could be the other) > Equally unisex For: Dylan Mostly Male Kendall Female Stacy (Stacey) Mostly Female Devon (Devin, Devyn) Mostly Female ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/27 "2009-06-06T18:29:40Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > [Re Kendall:] “I only know that was Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character” - I wondered if something like that was going on. I don’t know or know of any real-life Kendalls, it doesn’t sound feminine at all (IMO), and it looks like a combination of “Ken” and “Randall,” so I was puzzled that people perceived it as a girl’s name. Aha! And here I think we have the answer to my unwritten question. My youngest child, my son, is named “Kendall”, which at the time I could not have imagined as a girl’s name. The only two Kendalls I’ve ever heard of are “Kendall Gill”, a former NBA basketball player, and “Kendall Gammon”, a former NFL football player. Also “Jason Kendall”, a baseball player, and what he was actually named for, “Kendall-Jackson” the California vineyard (a friend of mine had just had a son named “Jackson”. I had never heard of a woman named Kendall, real or fictional. And yet, very often, people assume my child “Kendall” is a girl when I’m registering our names at a ticket counter or something. At first I thought it was because he has two sisters and I’m often carrying a bunch of their girly stuff. But then I got to noticing that it was always women who make that assumption. Yet neither I nor my wife could figure out why. Normally we associate name genders based on the first person that comes to mind, which is why I can’t think of Dylan as a girl’s name even though I know two girls named Dylan (one a child and the other now finishing college), since I think of “Dylan Thomas” and “Bob Dylan”. The “famous female Kendall” eluded our research though. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/28 "2009-06-06T18:32:32Z")
FWIW, the male Kendall I know is a large hairy redneck. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/29 "2009-06-06T18:37:08Z")
Dylan - only heard it applied to males Kendall - it SOUNDS like a woman’s name, but I know two men named Kendall Stacy (Stacey) - I do know male Staceys, but I wouldn’t advise giving that name to a boy Devon (Devin, Devyn) - Predominantly female, but I have known a male Devin ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/30 "2009-06-06T18:45:59Z")
Dylan - male Kendall - female Stacy (Stacey) - female Devon - male ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/31 "2009-06-06T18:53:44Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > The “famous female Kendall” eluded our research though. Well why didn’t you ask that, silly? 😛 Yeah, Sarah Michelle Gellar played [Kendall Hart](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Sarah_Michelle_Geller_as_Kendall_Hart.jpg/210px-Sarah_Michelle_Geller_as_Kendall_Hart.jpg) on _All My Children_. Daughter (by rape) of Erica Kane, played by whatsername, that never wins the Emmy…Susan Lucci. SMG, of course, later went on to play Buffy in the television series _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. FTR, I never watched AMC and I know all this. I am a Buffyphile, though. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/32 "2009-06-06T18:57:10Z")
m both f m ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/33 "2009-06-06T18:58:41Z")
Dylan - Male Kendall - Male Stacy (Stacey) - Mostly Female, but a few males Devon (Devin, Devyn) - Male, but I’ve encountered one female with that name ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/34 "2009-06-06T19:08:36Z")
I need to change my answer: I do know a Kendall (male). It’s possible I’m acquainted with others but only know them as “Ken.” ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/35 "2009-06-06T20:56:08Z")
Dylan - Male Kendall - Female (or Black male) Stacy (Stacey) - Female Devon (Devin, Devyn) - Female ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/36 "2009-06-06T21:26:18Z")
Curious the strong split on **Devon** in particular. Wonder if that’s generational. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/37 "2009-06-06T22:33:14Z")
It’s pronounced like “Devin” here, maybe that has something to do with it … similar to “Destin” or “Dustin”, a male name. To add to my previous response: I don’t think I’ve ever known a girl named Kendall. Several guys with that name, however. I’m female and from the south. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/38 "2009-06-06T22:36:38Z")
Dylan: Only M Kendall: Predominantly F Stacy: Only F Devon: Predominantly M ETA: I’m male ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/39 "2009-06-06T22:57:53Z")
Dylan - Predominantly M Kendall - Only F Stacy (Stacey) - Only F Devon (Devin, Devyn) - Predominantly M ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921/40 "2009-06-06T23:12:35Z")
Dylan - mostly boys, now some girls. Not a grown man’s name unless he’s an actor or dead poet. Kendall - Dog’s name or maybe female Stacy (Stacey) - female (formerly male) Devon (Devin, Devyn) - used to be male, now mostly female [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-gender-do-you-associate-with-these-names/498921.md?page=3)