Category talk:Unisex given names

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Inclusion criteria[edit]

What determines that a name is unisex? Are we supposed to be going by whether a name is inherently unisex or only according to the happenstance of there being both males and females who have the name? For example, in English, I think nearly everybody would have said that Michael is a male name, but then Michael Learned came along. Likewise, Lynn Swann, Christopher Norris, Leslie Nielsen. Who's to say that there can't be, and who knows that there aren't, parents who've named their sons Janet and Holly and Ellen and their daughters Richard and Brian and Kevin? Largoplazo (talk) 15:48, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]