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Goodly androgynous names...

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that

10:41 / 11.05.03

Anyone got any ideas? Stuff like Leslie and Hilary and such. But not hideous like those names. As good as Jude, at least. Please?

Shrug

10:48 / 11.05.03

Franny, Jules, Charlie?

Bill Posters

10:50 / 11.05.03

I've not thought of Hilary as a bad 'un myself. Though Kim and Robin (wch might get spelled Robyn s'times) are lovlier. Harriet is a potential candidate 'cos it would become Harry or Harrie in no time, and there's always George. I also know a woman called Thom (short for Thomasina).

Cavatina

10:51 / 11.05.03

Alex

Shrug

10:53 / 11.05.03

Franny, Jules, Charlie?

But seriously Aardvark and Floortile.

Ganesh

11:15 / 11.05.03

Jay. Robin. Nicky.

Bill Posters

11:16 / 11.05.03

i already said Robin. Just try and pay attention.

Jack Fear

12:49 / 11.05.03

Dana or Dane. Lee. Lou. Jo(e). Ronnie. Reggie.

And, of course, (it's) Pat.

Dances with Gophers

12:51 / 11.05.03

Sam for Samuel or Samantha. Ali for Alison or Alistair.

Ariadne

12:54 / 11.05.03

Rae, Lee, and I know a girl called Dan. IN fact, one of my schoolteachers was a woman called Scott, but that's maybe pushing things a bit.

Gerry? And Tracey is a guy's name in the US, I think?

Bill Posters

14:04 / 11.05.03

Yep, and IMHO cool in a way it's not over here (where it sadly carries 'white trash' connotations and can be synonymous with 'stoopid tart'). Is this Rae m or f-identified? 'Cos Ray/Rae sounds fairly androg, as well as very nice. And there's Di, which can imply either Beautiful Glamourous Tragic Princess or Huge Hairy Welsh Coal-Miner. Dan is great for a grrl, and i once met a woman called Davidia, who could have been referred to as Davey, wch wd be cool. Oh and I nearly went out with a Geri once, a splendid name IMHO (at least till ze cops off with a Tom, when it rapidly gets childish).

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:53 / 11.05.03

Ummm... sorry, Bill, but the huge hairy Welsh coal-miner would be spelled Dai. Except possibly at weekends.

And I can't belive nobody's said Evelyn yet. Call yourselves elitist ponces?

that

19:39 / 11.05.03

Hmmm...none of them are quite right... meh. Well, thank you anyway, folks.

Tryphena Absent

21:25 / 11.05.03

Alex or Sascha, Jo, Laurie, Max, Jamie... there are zillions but most of them are short forms of longer names.

Persephone

22:32 / 11.05.03

I knew a woman named Russell. I think that's not technically androgynous, as she was named after her father. But she was really a singularly beautiful woman, so I've been totally confused about that name ever since.

Cailín

01:29 / 12.05.03

I know a couple who named their daughter Frederick. It suits her.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

Bobby, Jo, Jamie...

jody or robin

Kit. Or Bizunth.

Sax

10:01 / 12.05.03

Chris.

Shrug

10:39 / 12.05.03

I'll go for Isa.

that

10:44 / 12.05.03

Isa's a bit too...financial. I like Kit, and I do like Kim/Kym.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:50 / 12.05.03

There are a few surnames that can also be androgynous first names: how about Blake? (Tends to be boys, but imagine a girl called Blake - how cool?) Or Blair, but that one's pretty fucking tainted now.

Lullaboozler

14:04 / 12.05.03

I've started seeing Dylan appropriated as a girl's name more and more (Drew Barrymore's character in Charlie's Angels, and one of Woddy Allen's kids if memory serves).

Oh, and you've got Drew there as well...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:22 / 12.05.03

Marion? As in John Marion Wayne?

William Sack

15:38 / 12.05.03

Wasn't Big Daddy called Maureen or something? What about Sandy?

bitchiekittie

17:50 / 12.05.03

Im with cavatina - alex is so sexy.

my daughers middle name was to be ethan, but I changed it last minute, and am still sorry I did.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:05 / 12.05.03

"Ethan" is v. nice. Tree names are good, like Ash, Alder, or Rowan.

PS: Big Daddy = Shirley Crabtree.

Ganesh

20:45 / 12.05.03

Valentine?

Whisky Priestess

22:23 / 12.05.03

Valentine Cunningham is definitely a bloke, but I've never heard of a girl called Valentine. Courttia Newland, the writer, sounds like a girl but is apparently a very masculine chap.

Try Vivian or Kay. George, short for Georina or Georgiana?

Ginger? For that matter, Fred? (Short for Frederica or Winifred .. and Winnie, short for Winifred again, or Winston. Hideous name though.)

Kit-Cat Club

22:32 / 12.05.03

My grandmother was always called George and her given name was Christabel.

What about 'Bill'? As in Malory Towers...

... and there's a fictional female Valentine in Margery Allingham's rotten Campion detective novels, I think.

Or you could make something up - something non-specific. Thinking of Radclyffe Hall here - not that I'd wish Radclyffe on anyone as a name (especially not spelt like that) but you get the idea.

Rev. Jesse

06:36 / 13.05.03

How about Jesse?

Then there's also Lindsey. And Pat, how could we forget Pat?

mkt

14:30 / 13.05.03

Kerry? Jamie?

Sax

14:34 / 13.05.03

What's this all for, anyway, Chol? Some nocturnal alter-ego you're creating?

that

14:54 / 13.05.03

Hehe. I was wondering if anyone was going to ask. It's for a pseudonym...

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