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A comment on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa. Parent comment

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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