US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by gus_massa on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:50PM (#50342664)

I mostly agree, but for example Andrea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea is a masculine name in Italian and a feminine name in Spanish. Here in Argentina it's mostly masculine, but if someone has many Italian ancestors, it may be masculine.

> It is part of the Italian male names ending in a, some others being Elia (Elias), Enea (Aeneas), Luca (Lucas), Mattia (Matthias), Nicola (Nicholas), Tobia (Tobias).

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by vconnor on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:12PM (#50342992)

The masculine/feminine question of the name Andrea is made weirder by the fact it literally derives from the Greek word for ‘adult male’ (andros)

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by adrian_b on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:42PM (#50345839)

More likely it is not derived directly from "andros", but from the feminine noun "andreia", which means courage or virility.

So the original grammatical gender was feminine, hence the -a termination.

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