But while Avery's popularity is starting to soften for girls, it continues to get stronger for boys -- in keeping with our finding that gender neutral names are becoming more favored for boys than for girls. Avery Continued Cassidy Origin: Irish Meaning: "curly-headed" Description: A ...
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Names like Pat, Terry and Jean areandrogynousbecause they can be given to babies of either gender. Possessing qualities of both sexes. * Owen The truth is, a great mind must beandrogynous. Related terms * androgyne * androgyny See also ...
Scholars have argued that androgynous names鈥攏ames given to both boys and girls鈥攁re unstable because parents prefer single-gender names. This single-gender preference creates bandwagon effects: as a name is increasingly given to girls, it becomes less attractive for parents of boys, and vice-...
The instability of androgynous names: the symbolic maintenance of gender boundaries - Lieberson, Dumais, et al. - 2000Lieberson, Stanley, Susain Dumais, and Shyon Baumann. 2000. "The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender ...
This study examined children's evaluative stereotypes of masculine, feminine, and androgynous first names. Attractive and unattractive masculine, feminine, and androgynous first names were presented to 50 primary school children. The gender-typed names were attributed to the appropriate sex; the ...