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?

ooh Jesses good
is Jessica from Jesse?

Jubicece- all the ones you've mentioned are male originally

Sorry Jesses wrong way round too isnt it. Jesse is biblical isnt it

Bah! I can't believe I can't think of any...

Hmmm......okay, back to drawing board.

Feel like I'm putting such a downer on it. It's not like I've done much better. In all the names inthe world we seem to have found a grand total of 2!

Dorcas is a biblical woman's name but surely that's actually used for men?

Bernice

Hmmm...googled Dorcas and apparently a girls name nowadays too.

This is hard!

Julian was once a woman's name as in Mother Julian of Norwich in the 14th Century.

I can't think of any other names off hand which were once female and are now men's.

I hope I have found one.... Dylan. It seems to come from Dylana!

Dylan

oooh well done

I know Dylan is now a boys name, but could you use it for a girl? I'd love to use Elliott for a girl, and Dylan sounds good too.

I think you could use Dylan for a girl. People use Cameron for a girl and that is a similar thing isn't it?

Not so sure about Julian Although I think it is nice for a girl!

How about Artemis. She is a goddess...

Article about gender neutral names. Interesting...

Timothy sounds more feminine than masculine. It would be pretty for a girl.

I always get a little when a girl is named something like Madison or Mackenzie which means 'son of'.

Artemis is a good un
Try telling that to my 6ft 4 brother Tim Ruby

Bronze

I will hide behind my 5' 9" DP

I know a massive Welsh bloke called Beverly.

I read that Douglass was once a girl's name.

I am a male Chelsea, but even that was once used more on males I believe.

Cruz (Spanish female name, one of the appellations of Mary)

Also in US, Aubrey (from Auberon, King of the fairies) and even Maxwell are now sometimes encountered on girls.

Yeah Artemis is a good one and now I remember reading about that too.

Another one maybe is Erin since I don't think it has roots in being a boy's name but has been used on boys.

Interesting how many people are reading the question the wrong way around which shows the extent of social conditioning that we have.

My Nan was Phyllis and if we have another boy he will be Phyllip - nothing massive just simple but commemorative

I wouldn't have thought so. The history of the world is that males dominated and everything was masculine with females being 'inferior'. Most things started as masculine and many things have only been feminised due to women's rights /equality etc. as such I can't imagine there are names that started off female and were 'masculinised' it's just the way life has run it's course. It may be that as women become increasingly 'equal' some names may go the other way.