US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by ozim on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:38PM (#50346888)

Fun part is that no one can stop poor people from imitating rich ones, so they do. Then rich ones start coming up with other ways to show to the others that they’re rich and poor copy over and over again.

I used rich as shorthand placeholder of blue blood, noble, famous and rich. Not everyone who is rich is noble and noble doesn’t mean they are rich.

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by vintermann on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:03AM (#50348954)

There have historically been a lot of ways poor people were stopped from imitating rich ones, and not just the obvious ones involving spending money. The US is pretty enlightened in that there are no name protection laws that I know of. In many European countries, you still need permission from every carrier of a rare last name if you want to take it.

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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by ozim on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:55AM (#50349638)

There have historically been also ways where poor stopped rich from being rich and having fancy name was making one a target.

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