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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa by Steve44 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:50AM (#50349607)
In Britain we had the very famous MI6 Intelligence office Kim Philby who was also a Russian spy, he was a key part of the Cambridge Five spy ring.

What I didn't know until just now is Kim was just a nickname. He was Harold Adrian Russell Philby and apparently Nicknamed "Kim" after the boy-spy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim[2] which surely foreshadowed his career!!

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24803131

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby

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