Genealogy Chat

Gerri, how about your own name?

Also Charlie / Charley?

And George, or is that one cheating?

Duncan

I once had a date with a Vivian!

He had a Rolls Royce car and we (us girls) needed a lift home from the youth club.(1967)

He obviously liked the look of me so we got our lift home!

I was the last to get dropped off.....he asked to see me again.....tea with Mummy and Daddy?

I thought OMG! what a house!.....Turned out....It was the flippin gate house!!

Main house was further up the flippin drive!!!!!

No! I diddnt marry him......married a git with no flippin money...10 years later and 3 kids, DIVORCED him......broke!...


Ho hum...such is life!
Kids turned out OK and I'm........wait for it!.......

§till Lòóking™ LOL


Gerri x

Hi Mary - definitely not a short form of Cecilia - this neighbour when I was very young was very old & scary - and insisted to my dad it had nothing to do with Cecilia!! LOL

Apparently (after googling) it's of Latin and Old
Welsh origin.

Know of Evelyn Waugh, Alma I always thought of as female (Alma Cogan)

maggie

I've never heard of Cecil as a girl's name either - maybe it was a shortened form of Cecilia.

I had an Uncle Alma, and there are also several female Almas on my tree.

Evelyn is another example: the author Evelyn Waugh was a man.

Hi Maggie,

My mum's name was Esme with an accent over the last 'e'. Apparently that was the male version of the name which originated in France. She went to school with a boy called Esme, but you are right that it is almost always a female name now.

She had a girl friend in Canada called Sidney.

Lynn

Terry / Terri
Courtney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex_name

http://www.cool-baby-names.com/search-categories-unisex.htm

http://www.babynameguide.com/categoryunisex.asp?strCat=Unisex

Sue
x

Christian was a girls name until recently

Lynn,
I only know female Esme's - was totally unaware it was a male name.

Kerry can be male or female, as can Kay.

maggie

Interesting.

I've never heard of a female Cecil so that must have been rare. I think there is more frequently Cecile but that doesn't sound quite the same.

Sydney/Sidney was occasionally used for girls.
Frances/Francis sound almost the same and I've seen old records using mixtures of spellings.
Lesley is the female version in the UK but I think Leslie is often used for girls as well as boys elsewhere.
Lee and Leigh can be either.
Morgan
Peter/Peta sound the same

I bet others can think of more.

Sue
x

Sam
Billy/Billie

How about -

Lesley/Leslie
Esme (my mother's name, but is usually male)
Frances/Francis
Billy/Billie
Ashley

I am sure there are lots of others but my brain is a bit tired this time in the morning.

Jodie
Alex
Robin/Robyn
Chris
Lee

Dianne xx

Just dawned on me that Cecil is both a boy and a girls name.
Had a (female) neighbour called Cecil when I was a child.
Also:
Hilary
Kim
Robin
are all boys & girls names.


maggie