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Is Ellery a girl name, a boy name, or a unisex name? Your chance to weigh in! 
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The new unisex names for girls are gender neutral choices that are increasingly being given to our daughters. Collins, Blake, or Campbell, anyone?
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Girl names? Boy names? Or do they work for either? These parents think so. Do you like these names for boys or girls? Anderson Earl Anderson Lucille Archer Magnolia Archer Matthias Bo Catlin Bo D...
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A boy called Fallon? A girl named Kai Magnus? This is another post for seeing names in a new light.
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Boys names ending with a are more popular in 2013 than ever before, from chart-toppers like Noah and Joshua to rarities like Aquila and Sequoia.
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Les prénoms épicènes sont les prénoms qui peuvent être à la fois masculins et féminins… des supers prénoms mixtes en quelque sorte ! Prenons « Camille » : l’évolution de ce prénom au cours du XXème siècle est frappante.
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Claude, Tiphaine, Louison...all these names and more have been used for both boys and girls in France. The statistics are all over the place chronologically, but it's interesting to have a look at which names have been more or less unisex over the years - not to mention good practice for gender agreement and vocab describing for little boys and girls.
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How many boys and girls received these unisex names in 2012? Is your favorite on the list? Find out here!
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If you're looking for more on unisex names, there's a tag for that, and (unsurprisingly) it's "unisex".
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Life ain't easy for a boy named Sue, zong Johnny Cash in zijn lied over een vader die zijn zoon een meisjesnaam geeft in de hoop dat hij een echte vechter wordt.
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Sarah writes: Hello! My husband and I are expecting our first child, a girl, in late summer. We've pretty much decided on a first name, Sydney, but are having difficulty with a middle name. Our las...
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"It's the latest celebrity unisex baby name trend--using 100% boys' names like Maxwell and Monroe for their baby girls. And now we can add North West to that list."
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Names such as Thomas and Oliver are popular for boys because they contain broader vowels while girls are given daintier-sounding names like Emily and Olivia, scientists claim.
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A shorter version of the previous scoop.
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Storm, 2, is a busy, chatty, toddler whose current infatuations include peanut butter and playing with sock puppets.
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Not strictly name-related, but in this case the child's unisex name is one indicator of their gender-neutral upbringing.
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Germany is adding a third gender to birth certificates. How will this affect their baby naming law, which requires that baby names be gender-specific?
Kara @ The Art of Naming's curator insight,
October 29, 2013 12:59 PM
Wow! What an intriguing problem... (I secretly kind of like that they enforce gender-specific names, btw.)
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Clare's insight:
I do like a good graphic! For more posts on unisex names, try filtering this page by the tag "unisex".
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B. writes: I recently met a baby boy named Teagan (which I had always put firmly in the "girl name" column in my head), and a twentysomething woman named Keegan (which I had always put firmly in th...
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These blue to pink 15 baby names were once all boy long before they become names only for girls.
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Even if you've seen this before, the poster has written an interesting extra story about her name, Aela.
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Dr Benjamin Pitcher, from the University of London, analysed the most popular names in the UK, Australia, and the US, and found that boys names are more likely to have "large" vowel sounds, while g...
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One theory on why we see certain baby names as masculine and others as feminine.
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For more stories along these lines, try filtering this page by the tag "vowels". (Like a cross between voles and owls...)
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"Written by Linda Rosenkrantz for Nameberry We're not saying that this trend is something completely new..."
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Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower, was born Mamie Geneva Doud in 1896 to John and Elivera Doud of Iowa. She was the second of four daughters.
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Gosh - read the part about her younger sisters.
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Parents' choice of baby names is influenced by an evolutionary tendency to make boys sound large and girls sound small, thus improving their chances of procreating, scientists have claimed.
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Could this be? Do people generally favour lower, more open vowels for boys and higher, more closed ones for girls? It's tempting to go through the top 100 checking for vowels now, but I'd better save that for another day.
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