# What names are truly androgynous, so far as you can tell? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918 "2006-01-20T23:05:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/21 "2006-01-21T00:12:23Z")
I don’t know HOW I forgot this one. It’s one I hear often. Jordan. My son has 2 very good friends with that name, one male, one female. The name Jordan is rarely spoken in our house without a last name accompanying it. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/22 "2006-01-21T00:14:31Z")
Elie ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/23 "2006-01-21T00:15:42Z")
Eugenia ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/24 "2006-01-21T00:17:39Z")
Gerry ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/25 "2006-01-21T00:20:04Z")
Jan ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/26 "2006-01-21T00:27:51Z")
Renee ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/27 "2006-01-21T00:27:55Z")
Chris, Pat, Robin, Terry, and Kelly are my “I need a gender neutral name” names. I should add Jaime and Lee. Jessie, I’m more likely to guess female, but I’m not surprised Taylor has pretty much become a girl, and Drew is still a boy. A Jordan over 35 is probably male, under 35, probably female. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/28 "2006-01-21T00:30:32Z")
Shelley ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/29 "2006-01-21T00:33:12Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > Eugenia Whaaah? ‘Eugene’ = male. ‘Eugenia’ = bizarre female version. Surely?! ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/30 "2006-01-21T00:38:51Z")
Yes, [Eugenia](http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Eugenia.html) is a Greek male name. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/31 "2006-01-21T00:43:02Z")
I’ve met a male Quinn. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/32 "2006-01-21T00:43:29Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Drew is still a boy. A Jordan over 35 is probably male, under 35, probably female. My nephews (boys, duh) are Drew and Jordan. Drew is 15 and Jordan is 9. Even though I tease my sister about having 2 girls, Drew has never had a problem. Jordan, on the other hand…well, we really have to avoid the subject around him. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/33 "2006-01-21T00:45:03Z")
Vivian ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/34 "2006-01-21T00:45:09Z")
Oh, and I might mention that my son Matthew is often called Matty. Only just now is he starting to be sensative about it because it sounds like it could be Maddie. He’s 7. He still doesn’t mind if I call him that, it’s everyone else he’s a little concerned about. So… Matty/Maddie. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/35 "2006-01-21T00:49:44Z")
Bev. There are two Bevs where I work; one is male and one is female. Another vote for Leslie. The Leslie I know is male. Francis is male, Frances female. Depending on how precisely one speaks, there may be a difference between the pronunciation of these two. Adrian/Adrienne and Julian/Julienne have different stresses and pronounciations of the last syllable, at least where I come from, so to me they are different. Taylor is a girl??? 😕 Sidney and Sydney are places to me… ---
**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:** [January 21, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/36 "2006-01-21T00:52:00Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > Chris. At one point I think I knew 3 or 4 Chris’s, of both genders. In the absence of any other data, I’d lean towards “Chris” being male and “Kris” being female, though either one could go either way. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/37 "2006-01-21T00:54:48Z")
[Female Francis](http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0006.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/38 "2006-01-21T01:04:52Z")
[Here’s all you need.](http://www.doctornerve.org/cgi-bin/dadababy.cgi) Yes, I’m aware it occasionally throws out names like Ava and Brice. So what. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/39 "2006-01-21T01:11:06Z")
My daughter is named Loren, after her grandfather. The name is nearly even on the popularity list for boys and girls. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918/40 "2006-01-21T01:51:14Z")
My name is Chris, (Christine, on my birth certificate). I have a nephew and a male cousin Chris, and a niece named Chris. In my class in elementary school, many years ago, I had male classmates named Kelly, Pat and Chris. StG [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-names-are-truly-androgynous-so-far-as-you-can-tell/340918.md?page=3)