Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by macintux on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:21PM
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Certainly Esther is reasonably common in the U.S., but when I saw her name I was expecting someone about 60 years older.
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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
by conductr on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:42AM
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There is a small trend of using very old names like this, not necessarily biblical but just old sounding. We know an elementary aged girl named Lydia and I always think the last person I knew by that name was my great-great grandmother.