Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by bigstrat2003 on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:20PM
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When I was a kid, I was very confused by the names of Fleetwood Mac band members. It really threw me for a loop that they had a Lindsay who is a dude, and a Stevie who is a girl, both counter to my intuition about names.
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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by graemep on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:40PM
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Stevie is Stephanie which has always been very much a girl's name. Abbreviations have a tendency to collide.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by thaumasiotes on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:20PM
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> Stevie is Stephanie which has always been very much a girl's name. Abbreviations have a tendency to collide.
Maybe, I guess. That would be one of those "abbreviations" like "Peggy" ("abbreviating" Margaret) that doesn't actually abbreviate the name, and you just have to know that someone out there thinks it's related.
"Stevie" for "Steven" follows the ordinary rules of English. For "Stephanie", you'd expect "Steffie".