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I think that the huge majority of Americans would think that Mattie was basically a female name. I know I was very surprised to find out that the recently famous young poet Mattie Stepanek was a boy instead of a girl.

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Carson is well-known as a female name in the South and to literature professors because of the author Carson McCullers. I would definitely assume that Codi and Jordi, in those spellings, would be girls. Shea has been regularly used for both genders in the USA for years. I also would not assume that Josia and Josiah were pronounced the same way.