Angelic1302 said:

I've seen these for girls, too, although more typically the final "Y" is changed to "IE," I guess. I have a female friend named "Billie." I once misspelled her name with a Y, and she gave me that entire lecture.
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Dewrede said:

Kim???oh is the male version Kem?

REDFEATHERS said:

Donnie and Hilary- i've never heard of for a boy

Kennedy
Taylor
Morgan

Shannon
Kim
Dana

I have seen all 3 used for boys and girls

Nikki

My friends name is Sandy, and he is a male. Love it!

Andrea is female in some countries and male in others.
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shanti0608 said:

My brother-in-law's first and middle name is Kelly Don. Of course it sounds like Kelly Dawn...

Rene'

Rory

Jamie

Jackie

Joey

Michael or Mikael

Martin or Marteen

Evvy said:

no , Kim

REDFEATHERS said:

there was a boy at my school called tracy but if went by another none. Great name i like sam 4 both.

I love boys names on girls
If Tyryn had been a girl he would have probably been called Jordan ..and then I have Taylor

pardonme4livin said:

Ur just the more girly of the two

My niece's name is Chandler.

I used to like the name Jameson for a girl but I wouldn't want anyone to think I was naming my kid after Jenna Jameson, since I used to a be a fan of hers.

I love Kelly as a boy's name

...and at my high school there was a girl named Adonis

thekidsgirl said:

Ariel

ArielB said:

come here my little mermaid

I knew a boy called Ariel in argentina, but he died in a motorcycle accident

ZombieKitten said:

her mom missed must not have been a big fan of Greek literature

ArielB said:

I like your name alot...but I didn't realize you were a guy for quite a while

thekidsgirl said:

my sister called her baby Milo Kafka
she has never read any Kafka, but DID read this book

so naming her kid after a CAT named after Kafka my mum was like

Jody
Lynn

they are brothers...
i think maybe their mom wanted a girl??

Oh and Terri and Jerri
twin girls i went to school with...



adding the twins..

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ZombieKitten said:

aww, well thats okay since the cat wasn't named Muffy or Bootsy or something!

I wouldn't object to being named after a cat with a cool name

thekidsgirl said:

"Critical interpretations
Critics have interpreted Kafka's works in the context of a variety of literary schools, such as modernism, magical realism, and so on.[22] The apparent hopelessness and absurdity that seem to permeate his works are considered emblematic of existentialism. Others have tried to locate a Marxist influence in his satirization of bureaucracy in pieces such as In the Penal Colony, The Trial, and The Castle,[22] whereas others point to anarchism as an inspiration for Kafka's anti-bureaucratic viewpoint. Still others have interpreted his works through the lens of Judaism (Borges made a few perceptive remarks in this regard), through Freudianism[22] (because of his familial struggles), or as allegories of a metaphysical quest for God (Thomas Mann was a proponent of this theory[citation needed]).
Themes of alienation and persecution are repeatedly emphasized, and the emphasis on this quality, notably in the work of Marthe Robert, partly inspired the counter-criticism of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who argued that there was much more to Kafka than the stereotype of a lonely figure writing out of anguish, and that his work was more deliberate, subversive, and more "joyful" than it appears to be.
Furthermore, an isolated reading of Kafka's work — focusing on the futility of his characters' struggling without the influence of any studies on Kafka's life — reveals the humor of Kafka. Kafka's work, in this sense, is not a written reflection of any of his own struggles, but a reflection of how people invent struggles.
Biographers have said that it was common for Kafka to read chapters of the books he was working on to his closest friends, and that those readings usually concentrated on the humorous side of his prose. Milan Kundera refers to the essentially surrealist humour of Kafka as a main predecessor of later artists such as Federico Fellini, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and Salman Rushdie. For García Márquez, it was as he said the reading of Kafka's The Metamorphosis that showed him "that it was possible to write in a different way."

I just reckon she should have read some Kafka or found out something about him, since everyone will assume she named her kid after the writer, not some cat

ZombieKitten said:

Well, in Israel it's a male name, and pretty common. It's just the rest of the world who are confused.

thekidsgirl said:

It's because I talk about large breasts all the time that got you confused

my name is actually unisex where i live - rayan.