There are lots of feminised male names..........

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Roberta
Louisa
Frederica
Josephine
Alexandra

etc etc

I mean bloody hundreds.

Any example of a female name becoming masculine?

I think (and I base my thinking on an interview I once read with Ms Lawson) that Nigel comes from Nigella, Nigella being a flower of some sort - African Violet maybe. Anyway, Nigella's granny/Nigel's mum cultivated these, and wanted a baby girl to call her Nigella. Only she got a boy, so called him Nigel.

Denise -> Denephew?

Or is that just a Terry Pratchett joke?

I am racking my brains to thinks of one. My name has the feminised 'a' at the end.

Bad joke Agatha

Denise the feminine of Dennis

Merrill (boys name?) comes
From Muriel apparently

Mario from Mary/Maria?

Mario comes from the Latin name Marius. Has nothing to do with Maria. Maria in Latin is the feminised form of Marius.

Marion?

I am stumped.

Lindsay was a man's name in Scotland and is now pretty much unheard of for a boy.

Hilary

Kim

A boy named Sue

Vivian

Hilary

Kim

I knew a male Kimberly but his Mum wanted a girl. Heard of a little boy a few years ago with Hilary as his middle name after a great grandfather.

Francis/Frances
Lesley/Leslie
Sidney/Sydney

Esme

Frances
Lesley
Sydney

All feminised versions.

Just ONE name that is popular and based on a female name not a masculine derivation.

But all those are going from male to female.
Are we not looking for female to male names like nigella to Nigel

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I know 2 'O'Marion' s both of whom are boys, is stretching it a bit though.

Tracy

Shirley

Shelley

Jesse?