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Help[Opinions] um, Ciarda....
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If you aren't into masculine names on girls, please compose your unisex list of unisex names only. :-D I am only taking issue with one of this list, but there are many on it that are conventionally male.
The name Merrick is not, in fact, "unisex." Please, please don't spread this misinformation.. It has perhaps been given to a few hipster girl-children on the West Coast, and adopted for themselves by a few hipster women, during the time that Anne Rice's vampire books were popular .. but Anne Rice's usage was unconventional, and literary; in fact, there have been a much larger number of girls born named Campbell. There were more female than male Campbells named in 2004 (in the US).
By the way, as far as I have been able to determine, the name Merrick is not specifically a surname name. It is an Anglicization of the Welsh form of Maurice, and it also happens to be an English surname. (Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I haven't been able to find out) Many people have never heard the first name but they have heard the surname so they assume.
Thanks.
- chazda
The name Merrick is not, in fact, "unisex." Please, please don't spread this misinformation.. It has perhaps been given to a few hipster girl-children on the West Coast, and adopted for themselves by a few hipster women, during the time that Anne Rice's vampire books were popular .. but Anne Rice's usage was unconventional, and literary; in fact, there have been a much larger number of girls born named Campbell. There were more female than male Campbells named in 2004 (in the US).
By the way, as far as I have been able to determine, the name Merrick is not specifically a surname name. It is an Anglicization of the Welsh form of Maurice, and it also happens to be an English surname. (Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I haven't been able to find out) Many people have never heard the first name but they have heard the surname so they assume.
Thanks.
- chazda
This message was edited 11/1/2005, 7:22 PM
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