Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by ascorbic on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:19PM
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The UK doesn't really use those kind of suffix at all unless you're the king, so I'd imagine it would be quite hard with forms.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by ninalanyon on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:36PM
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> the Nordic
Long obsolete except in Iceland.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by somenameforme on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:04PM
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? Jameson, Smithson, Thomson, Wilson, etc, etc.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by vintermann on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:56AM
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Not so long. My grandfather, born 1908 in Norway, kept the proper patronym as a middle name since he would otherwise have the same full name as his father. Everyone had to take fixed last names by 1923, but it wasn't uncommon to keep the patronym as a middle name like my grandfather did.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by alistairSH on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:28AM
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Not actively used, but still see the occasional ...son on a surname.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by terribleperson on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:15PM
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How the heck can one state of Australia prohibit certain types of names? Doesn't that cause all kinds of problems with documentation mismatches if someone moves?
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by cowlevel on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:16PM
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It's not unusual for someone to change their name when immigrating. Have you met anyone in your presumably English-speaking country who wrote their name in Korean characters? Probably not because they convert it to the nearest allowed name.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by dpark on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:29AM
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They don’t change names when they move. The names are registered in the location of birth.
But your name might get mangled in some states if it doesn’t fit, same as it might in the US if some system doesn’t properly handle, e.g., multiple middle names or special punctuation.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by alistairSH on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:30AM
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Dunno, but Iceland also enforces it's son-of/daughter-of naming convention to the point some names are explicitly prohibited (or is it explicitly allowed, I forget if it's a black-list or white-list).
On some forms in the US, it's listed as a suffix. Some agencies enforce it, others do not (SSA does not, for example). And colloquially, when"Senior" dies, the son often stops using "Junior" (though that's not a legal change).
UK, Can, and AUS are similar, but not exactly the same as the US. And NSW in AUS complicates matters by outright prohibiting roman numberals are Jnr/Snr suffixes. Mexico has more restrictions due to the mothers-last-name, fathers-last-name naming convention.
Personally, I dig the Nordic and Arabic "x, son of y, son of z, son of..." patterns.