Dylan: Predominately male, but could be female
Kendall: Predominantly female, but could be male.
Stacy (Stacey): Predominantly female, but could be male. This is a very feminine name to my ear, but I know it can be a man’s name.
Devon (Devin, Devyn): Predominately male, but could be female
Dylan - Female
Kendall - Female
Stacey - Male
Devon - Female
I would imagine it’s more regional than generational; I would also think that it’s tied to how it’s spelled. I’ve only met one other female with that name- who is significantly younger than me- and although it’s not spelled the way mine is, it is spelled what I consider the ‘typical’ female way.
Dylan Only M
Kendall Only F
Stacy (Stacey) Predominantly F
**Devon (Devin, Devyn) **Only M
This was answered from first-gut reaction, without examining too much.
Dylan: Only Male
Kendall: Only Female
Stacy (Stacey): Only Female
Devon (Devin, Devyn): Equally Unisex
Dylan - Male
Kendall - Neither
Stacy (Stacey) - Female
Devon (Devin, Devyn) - Neither
Devon/Devin is the only name in the list I actually know multiple people with - 2 guys and a girl that I went to HS with.
I don’t personally know a single male Stacy (and only know OF one - actor Stacy Keach), don’t know any Dylans, personally, and none of the ones I know OF (fictional or real) are female. Kendall…I can’t think of anyone I know, or know of, with Kendall as a first name…
Dylan - Male
Kendall - Female
Stacy - Female
Devon - male if spelled -on, female if spelled otherwise.
Dylan - only M
Kendall - M, possibly
Stacy - only F
Devon - never heard it used as a Christian name - only as a food
Dylan - male
Kendall - female
Stacy (Stacey) - female
Devon (Devin, Devyn) - female
I’ve known people of both genders for all these names, but those are the genders I think of them “belonging” to. If it helps, I’m female and 32 years old.
Well, every Kendall I’ve ever met has been a little girl, so I found this thread surprising when so many people said it was a boy’s name.
I’m male, 50+, Australian
If I was considering these names for a child of mine (or offering comment on possible names for a grandchild)
Dylan - exclusively male
Kendall - exclusively female
Stacey - exclusively female these days
Devon - not an appropriate name for a human. Like salami, it would be an OK name for a pig. If you must name a child Devon make sure he/she/it never travels overseas.
For those who have replied to say that “Kendall” is intuitively an “exclusively female” name – may I ask why? Just curious because not only are the only Kendalls I have heard of male, even without that I would agree that the name sounds most like an amalgam of “Ken” and “Randall”, both exclusively male names. There are no “-all” names I can think of that are female either.
Dylan- male.
Kendall- male.
Stacy (Stacey)- female.
Devon (Devin, Devyn)- mostly male.
The only female in that bunch is Stacy.
I did know a girl child named Devin, but she’s definitely the exception. I’ve never heard of the Kendall character from AMC, and it just seems like a male name to me.
I’m female, btw.
I found an interesting website that charts the historical popularity of the top 1000 boy’s and girl’s baby names in the US. Kendall is seen as a boy’s name since the 1920s. It was always a rather rare boy’s name, being a “last name turned into a first name” formation; but sometime in the 1980s, presumably in the late 1980s, it crossed over to becoming a girl’s name as well. It surged strongly in popularity as a girl’s name around 1992 or 1993 (I assume that this coincides with the character appearing on All My Children?), going from being the 413th most popular girl’s name in 1991 (versus 321st as a boy’s name) to 186th as a girl’s name in 1994 (it did also gain in popularity as a boy’s name in that same period, but not nearly to the same extent). Since then it’s continued to climb in popularity as a girl’s name, with a corresponding decline in popularity as a boy’s name. It’s definitely much more popular now as a girl’s name than a boy’s. (Too bad I didn’t find this website 5+ years ago… Oh well, the kid’s gonna have to live with it.)
Dylan crested as a girl’s name in the early 1990s but appears not to have really caught on, probably because it surged strongly in popularity as a boy’s name in the late 1990s/2000s, when it’s become among the top 25 boy’s names in the US.
Devon was most popular as a girl’s name in the early 1990s but lost the battle to overtake it as a boy’s name. After 1995 it declined in use as a girl’s name, and after 2000 really fell off the map (but not entirely so).
Stacy was a moderately popular boy’s name in the 1960s and 1970s, but never close to its popularity as a girl’s name. Interesting for this one, it seems to have been a longstanding girl’s name (since 1950) that made it into the top 300 as a boy’s name in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s died off as a boy’s name though: 1993 is the last year it made the top 1000, while it remains popular for girls.
“Tracy” is an interesting case too (and what I was actually thinking of, not “Stacy”, when I wrote my OP but I couldn’t take it back). It first shows up as a girl’s name in the 1940s (it had previously been a rather rare boy’s name), and very quickly gained parity: between 1950-1959, it was the 298th most popular boy’s name and the 250th most popular girl’s name. (Interestingly, even as there was an enormous surge in popularity for “Tracy” as a girl’s name, it was also the most popular it had ever been as a boy’s name – it was just suddenly a much more popular name, period.) After that there was no looking back. Even as it more than doubled in popularity as a boy’s name in the 1960s, hitting 117th, it skyrocketed to #41 on the girl’s name list and continued to climb, peaking at #25 in the 1970s.
So for those of my generation (born in the 1970s) Tracy is firmly a predominantly girl’s name, but we all know or have heard of the odd male named “Tracy”, such as the current NBA star Tracy McGrady (born in 1979), or the comedian/actor Tracy Morgan (born in 1968). Younger people are never going to think of Tracy as a boy’s name at all (especially with athletic nicknames as “T-Mac” to help mask the gender bender name).
Oh yes, and the back story on the females I know of named “Dylan” and “Devon (Devyn)”: I knew a couple who had twin baby girls in 1991 or 1992 and named then “Dylan” and “Devyn” (I think they spelled it with an interior “Y” to echo the Y in “Dylan”). I remember thinking at the time that BOTH names were boy’s names, were they not? Oh, and there’s now a trendy candy shop in Midtown Manhattan called “Dylan’s Candy Bar” that I’ve learned is named after, and owned/run by, the daughter of the clothing designer Ralph Lauren.
Wikipedia says yes. Not only did the character first appear in 1993, but has grown to be one of the core and most popular characters on the still-running show. So there’s no going back now unless I can blackmail the show’s writers into writing in a discovery that she’s chromosomally an XY and she suddenly wakes up one morning with rippling biceps and a basso profundo voice. 
Dylan - mostly M, but can be F
Kendall - mostly M, but can be F
Stacy (Stacey) - mostly F, but can be M. Prolly 'cos I know about 5 guys named this.
Devon (Devin, Devyn) - First spelling I would think M. Last two, I would think F.
It’s the “elle” sound. Michelle, Chaundel, Danielle, Gabriele… Sure, you’ve got Randall, Mitchel, and Montel, but I don’t know anyone named those. I know about 10 gazillion Michelles.
I would have guessed it was an amalgam of Candace and Michelle, myself.
Posting before reading the rest of the thread:
Dylan - male.
Kendall - no idea. Never heard it as a name. Could be either, I guess, so unisex.
Stacy (Stacey) - F, though there have been a few famous male Stacys in the past.
Devon (Devin, Devyn) - I’ve only heard it in American movies/TV, where it’s men, so M. Devyn looks more female, though.