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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 colechristensen on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:16PM (#50343878)
Aren't most of these cases of dropping the final s and maybe a vowel from a latin names instead of adding a diminutive a?

Andreas Lucas Nicolas, etc. (perhaps with different spelling in Latin)

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by cwnyth on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:51PM (#50346516)
> Aren't most of these cases of dropping the final s

Yes, but also because those names were originally Greek.

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