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Re: POLL RESULTS! Gendered Connotations
by Raven Briar (Constant)
3/24/2019, 11:29 AM
in reply to a message by Xena
I tend to associate Tatum with sporty guys, and Emery as a unisex girls name. All the others are what I would expect. Some of these I don't really consider gender neutral. Yes, there are a few girls named Logan and Max, but tradition and usage are still overwhelmingly male. I would be very surprised to meet a boy named Fern. Iphis seems slightly more masculine while Iphys is more feminine. Either way, Iphis is very unusual.

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- holeyg   +3
3/24/2019, 11:48 AM
I would definitely expect both Logan and Max to be male. However, if someone told me Logan was female, I'd say, "Oh." If someone told me Max was female, I'd say, "What?!"
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- Xena   +2
3/24/2019, 5:37 PM
Isn't Max usually a nickname for both masculine and feminine names? Like a person called Max could be Maxwell or Maxine.
Like right now one of the new protagonists in Stranger Things 2 is a girl named Max.
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- holeyg   +1
3/24/2019, 5:47 PM
It could be, certainly. Partly I was evaluating this as a question about full names only. And more importantly, Maxine has only recently re-entered the top 1000 at all and is ranked at #874. Max- names for boys are vastly more popular.
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- Xena
3/24/2019, 6:04 PM
That's true––I'm not a fan of Maxine either. I do know some girls named Max, but I don't think I ever heard them use a full-name version like Maxine though. So maybe it was just Max.
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