What is the most gender neutral name?

[foreverastudent]

There are a lot of unisex names, but in practice they tend to be associated with one gender or the other.

So what do you think are genuine neutral names?

Interesting.

I'm quite surprised at some of these. Some of the names above eg Jamie, Vivian, Lesley, Kelly, Jacky I would only ever think of with one gender.

It seems that a lot of the other are only gender neutral when spoken, though. They are either spelled differently according to sex or are nicknames.

For instance how many girls actually have Sam or Alex on their birth certificate?

The only ones that seems to pass these tests are Rowan and Morgan.

I'm also surprised that Tyler wasn't mentioned.

DH was called Helen for a month because the in laws were expecting a girl and hadn't thought of anything else. I imagine he wore it well despite his baby boy bald head and scowl.

John Wayne's real name was Marion. And Big Daddy's was Shirley.

Time to revive those for the lads?

I'm not sure it's time to revive those for girls, let alone boys!

Mel
Taylor
Tyler
Sidney
Devon
Reece
Eden

Kay

Sasha (although probably still more of a boys' name - nickname for Alexander)

Kim

oops someone mentioned that way back!

I met a female Shaun recently - is that common?

Telsa - I also know a female Shane.