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Help[Facts] Re: My column on Courtney, Courteney, and Courtenay
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
I didn't know Courtney Cox was named after her mother!
Most of the names with periods of dominant feminine usage don't get a mention on Wikipedia. It just doesn't come up as often because no one's out there wondering why a historical women has a masculine name the same way people wonder why a man has a feminine name. And there are far fewer historical women to wonder about. If you write the articles, I'll update the pages! Edit: Bookworm beat me to it.
As for names that have swapped from female to male: Sidney, Alison, Emmet, Wilmot, Evelyn, Christian, Marion, Tatum (on its way!), Parnell. The 1870 US census also had more women named Cory and Casey than men, but at such low numbers that very little can be said about gendered perception.
Most of the names with periods of dominant feminine usage don't get a mention on Wikipedia. It just doesn't come up as often because no one's out there wondering why a historical women has a masculine name the same way people wonder why a man has a feminine name. And there are far fewer historical women to wonder about. If you write the articles, I'll update the pages! Edit: Bookworm beat me to it.
As for names that have swapped from female to male: Sidney, Alison, Emmet, Wilmot, Evelyn, Christian, Marion, Tatum (on its way!), Parnell. The 1870 US census also had more women named Cory and Casey than men, but at such low numbers that very little can be said about gendered perception.
This message was edited 6/16/2025, 4:17 AM
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