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Unisex Names: Yes? No? Boy? Girl?

Unisex names have been around forever, back to the era when Alice, Anne, Emma and Esmé were boys’ names that morphed over to the girls’ side, and Douglas and Clarence were female names.  In the sixties there were Jodys and Jamies of both genders, and now we have a whole new set of names popular for both boys and girls.

Some of  the unisex names on both current lists include:

  • Addison

  • Aubrey

  • Avery

  • Bailey

  • Finley

  • Harley

  • Harper

  • Hayden

  • Jayden

  • Jordan

  • Logan

  • London

  • Marley

  • Morgan

  • Peyton

  • Reese

  • Riley

  • Ryan

  • Skylar

The Question of the Week is:  Are any of these gender neutral names among your faves, and if so, would they be used for a girl or a boy?

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at InstagramTwitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.

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