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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Devon is a nice name that pairs well with your other children’s names. Congratulations![/quote]

It matches but I'm not sure if Devon and Fallon are gender neutral?

To me, Devon is a girl's name because of Devon Aoki and I have no association with Fallon.  Devin is a boy's name.

I prefer gender-marked names.  It's just easier.  If you have three boys, go with Devin.

Also I wondered if Fallon and Griffin are Tonight Show and Family Guy references in disguise.  If so, what's Devon from?[/quote]

omg imagine the tragedy if you can't predict someone's genitals when hearing theirs name. [/quote]

PP.  It's not a tragedy, you just have to watch people (like teachers and job interviewers) make dumb mistakes and awkwardly get out of it.  Like having a difficult to pronounce name.  I don't recommend that either...for the same reason.  It's just easier to avoid.  As we are discussing, Devon, Devin, and Devyn have different degrees of gender marking.

When someone tries to make their kids' names match...there's some underlying principle there.  The human mind wants to understand it.  People aren't sets of objects.  There's no reason their names have to match other than conveying stylish intentionality and whatever other reason the namer had.  The principle here hasn't been shared other than sounds similar and ends in "n".

It's not about genitals as much as people getting your name right, being able to guess who you are in a crowd, etc.  It's just easier.

I have two colleagues with European names that start with the same syllable and  both are pronounced differently from the likely guess pronunciation.  The funny thing is that people are always mixing up these two names in front of the people themselves. Because they share the first three letters.  At that point, I'd start going by my initials just to avoid going through the cringe of listening to people mangle my name.[/quote]

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