# What is the least gender/race/ethnicity specific name combination we can come up with?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 9, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-gender-race-ethnicity-specific-name-combination-we-can-come-up-with/690381 "2014-06-09T03:27:01Z")\
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**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 11, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-gender-race-ethnicity-specific-name-combination-we-can-come-up-with/690381/41 "2014-06-11T16:52:53Z")

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> [@SciFiSam](#):
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> Kim could also be African or Indian. I’ve heard of both (and there are famous stories with Kims from at least one part of Africa and from India).

Are you talking about the Kipling novel? That kid was Irish; he just happened to have been born in India. Kim is not an Indian name.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-gender-race-ethnicity-specific-name-combination-we-can-come-up-with/690381/42 "2014-06-11T18:17:11Z")

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I write children’s fiction, and I frequently name a character something like Alex Lee.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-gender-race-ethnicity-specific-name-combination-we-can-come-up-with/690381/43 "2014-06-11T18:47:27Z")

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Gul Ducat

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-gender-race-ethnicity-specific-name-combination-we-can-come-up-with/690381/44 "2014-06-13T14:40:34Z")

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> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Speaking of vaguely-Abrahamic names, how about Jo Lee? I went to university with a Jo Lee.
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> Kim Jo Lee? Even the order is ambiguous…

Ooh, those are good.

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**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-least-gender-race-ethnicity-specific-name-combination-we-can-come-up-with/690381/45 "2014-06-15T01:56:12Z")

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Taylor Smith

Pat White

Jessie Jones

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