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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:43PM (#21381430)
I find the Krishna name interesting. Krishna is a male Hindu deity. However, it seems a lot of people were naming their girls Krishna. Now, it is a boy's name again.

My speculation for the cause of this is that Hare Krishna became popular among certain US groups in the 1970's and a lot of them named their daughters Krishna. Then, in more recent times, there has been a lot more immigration from India into the US, and these families name their boys Krishna.

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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by _emacsomancer_ on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:55PM (#21382139)
Though Krishnā is also a name, and the feminine version of Krishna (Krishnā is one of Draupadi's other names; where both Krishna and Draupadi are characters in the _Mahabharata_).
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by belltaco on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:53PM (#21384133)
The point is, in India, Krishna is overwhelmingly a male name, with a few exceptions.
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by Mountain_Skies on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:38PM (#21381995)
Perhaps in the 70s people also stuck to the general trend of female names ending with a vowel while make names typically ended with a consonant. Immigration from cultures such as India where this isn't the trend might indeed be responsible for it waning.
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by foogoloo on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:07PM (#21382234)
In latin countries male names end in o, and girls names end in a.
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by skissane on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:00PM (#21383070)
Not universally true. Consider a male name like Luca
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by petecox on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:42PM (#21383308)
Seems like a case of s-dropping from a transliteration of a Greek name, Lucas.

c.f. Andreas -> Andrea.

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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by bonoboTP on Monday October 28, 2019 @08:41PM (#21383296)
Or Andrea.
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by tomcooks on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:29AM (#21384856)
Same as Lucas
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by keerthiko on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:09AM (#21385520)
This has absolutely been the trend in India. Majority of male names from my generation and my parents' generation end in consonants, and ending with a vowel was indicative of a feminine name.

So I doubt Indian immigration at least impacted this trend in the direction suggested.

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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by mcv on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:48AM (#21388488)
Cross cultural names are a source of misunderstandings. Many male Russian names, like Nikita or Ilya, are interpreted as female in English-speaking countries because of the -a ending. Same with male Italian names like Andrea.
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by harryxps on Monday October 28, 2019 @10:23PM (#21383764)
My mother's name is Krishna, born in the early 1940s in Jhang ("West Punjab" then immigrated eastwards with partition). Just a random data point for you.
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by DonHopkins on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:49PM (#21383615)
Jesus is a regionally popular name in states along the Mexican border including Arizona, Texas, California and New Mexico.

https://flowingdata.com/2013/11/18/regional-names/

I wonder why more people don't name their children God? Maybe because it becomes problematic during the teenaged years.

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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by raincom on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:59PM (#21382181)
Final long a is a feminine noun in Sanskrit. Short a is usually a masculine in Sanskrit. There are some exceptions to this.
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Re:The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S. by wces on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:07PM (#21383408)
Krishna is a river in India. It's very common to name daughters after rivers in India. Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Kaveri are more common feminine river names than Krishna, though.
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