Boy names?

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Seeler said:
I know several males named 'Clair'.
I also knew a couple who were both named Carrie. (After her marriage she started going by her middle name 'Hazel'.)

I also know several people of either sex named Merle.

The first Cleo I knew was male. I'm still a bit surprised to find people recently are naming their girls Cleo.
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i also know a man and a woman, of about the same age, a generation older than me, named Merle. These two don't know each other.
 
I like having a gender neutral name now. I didn't when I was a kid going through my awkward looking phase. I wasn't a particularly pretty girl between age 9-13 or so. I was still cute (I think) but in an awkward way. I guess it mattered to me then not to look like a boy. But looking back, as a little girl, my mom kept my hair short, sort of Dorothy Hamel style, not much longer than a bob cut, ever - because it was so thick and wavey she didn't want to do anything with it - but I longed for French braids. At one point it was just long enough, and my aunt and grandma styled it. My mom kept her hair short - twiggy style, too, though, and always dressed, and dressed me in a sort of "feminist hipster" style, is the best way to describe it. Mary Tyler Moore. Lol. Almost but not quite gender neutral. Jeans with flower patches, corderouy pants (because I fell on my knees a lot probably). But, I begged her for the floral dresses, and pink stuff. She liked yellow. Lol. By high school nobody wore dresses anyway, much.
 
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No, my mom had a Liza Minnelli look. And dressed in a lot of pantsuits with scarves, in the 70's. Or wore a bandana/ scarf on her head. Bell bottoms, turtlenecks. She looked a bit like some photos of Margaret Trudeau, actually - maybe not as striking, but trendy. And so she also kind of dressed me like a boy when I was little. Those were the times.
 
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It's been popular in recent years to use last names as first names which can be gender neutral. I guess Taylor is one. I know a McKinnley, and there's Mackenzie. Milan Kunis and Ashton Kutcher named their new daughter Wyatt. Ainsley is another. Bailey, I like, and can be a boys name but I don't think I know of any.
 
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