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Re: POLL RESULTS! Gendered Connotations
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In 2017, 41 girls were named Max, compared with 3,121 boys - a ratio of over 76:1.1,103 girls were named Logan vs. 13974 boys, a ratio of over 12:1.Not many babies of either sex were named Ash - 7 girls and 134 boys. Roughly 4900 girls had names beginning with Ash (I excluded Ashanti since it didn't seem likely to have a nickname of Ash) compared to over 9000 boys. On the other hand, I believe an older Ash is much more likely to be a nickname for a girl named Ashley.There were 5925 male Camerons and 574 female Camerons. Respellings of Cameron didn't come anywhere near making up the difference.Male Devins vastly outnumbered female Devins and male Devons outnumbered female Devons.Male Caseys outnumbered female Caseys but female Kaseys outnumbered male ones.Wisdom of the crowds confirmed!I'm really surprised that Cameron and Ash- names turned out to be so male-dominant.
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Thank you so much for these statistics! They're really interesting! I knew one Max way, way back in kindergarten who was a girl and her name wasn't shortened from Maxine or anything. I actually never met a male Max until two years ago. This is really interesting, just because some people like to talk about the trendiness of giving girls masculine names, when it seems that statistically that's not really happening all that much. Maybe like celebrities get a lot more of the spotlight for gender neutral/unconventional names too.
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