Girls and boys names

[TimberWolf]

What makes a given name more appropriate to be given to a girl than a boy?

What if I make up some names : Geany, Acramanto, Bando, Jampi, flandango. Are these boys or girls names?

Is it just what we are used to and now we just accept it? So males could just easily have been called Anne, Susan or Dorothy <snigger>

[Menelaus]

What makes a given name more appropriate to be given to a girl than a boy?

What if I make up some names : Geany, Acramanto, Bando, Jampi, flandango. Are these boys or girls names?

Is it just what we are used to and now we just accept it? So males could just easily have been called Anne, Susan or Dorothy <snigger>

A girl called Flange, perhaps?

[JoJoGabor]

Why? Are you expecting and thinking of giving your son a wacky girls name? (or vice versa)

[TimberWolf]

Why? Are you expecting and thinking of giving your son a wacky girls name? (or vice versa)

Dunno, just a semi-random out of the box moment, don't recall then trigger (which is a boys name).

[TimberWolf]

Come to think if it what are the gender rules for nouns in natural languages, e.g. Der, Die and Das in German? Just made up?

[The Lone Gunman]

Come to think if it what are the gender rules for nouns in natural languages, e.g. Der, Die and Das in German? Just made up?

Pretty much.

[Churchill]

What makes a given name more appropriate to be given to a girl than a boy?

What if I make up some names : Geany, Acramanto, Bando, Jampi, flandango. Are these boys or girls names?

Is it just what we are used to and now we just accept it? So males could just easily have been called Anne, Susan or Dorothy <snigger>

Hmmm, a boy named Sue....?

Has a familiar ring(of Fire) to it...

Could lead to the (Falsom prison)blues though...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

What if I make up some names : Geany, Acramanto, Bando, Jampi, flandango. Are these boys or girls names?

They aren't made up, they are all in regular use in the US

[Menelaus]

Hmmm, a boy named Sue....?

Has a familiar ring(of Fire) to it...

Could lead to the (Falsom prison)blues though...

You are a member of RTR AICMFP

[Churchill]

You are a member of RTR AICMFP

I'm not but my mate Blakey was!