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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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