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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obvious boy names for girls is a low class southern thing [/quote]

That, and a signal that the parent is sexist but too dumb to realize it.

Tell me OP, would you name your boy Emma, Rose, or Charlotte?[/quote]

To be fair, none of those names are considered gender neutral at all. Hunter is becoming more common for girls, :

https://www.thebump.com/b/hunter-baby-name#chart

Think throwing sexism around is a bit much here. Overall I don't disagree with your implicit statement that more "boy" names have become gender neutral than girl names. And, I'm sure you're right there is a lot to unpack as to why that is the case...but it's a leap to call OP an ignorant sexist. 
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Hunter is not a gender neutral name. As recently as 2022, Hunter is ~10x more common on males. In 2010, ~20x more common for boys. And so on.

It’s not a lot to unpack to understand why parents are happy to name their girls male names like Hunter when they never do the equivalent for their boys. [/quote]

I'm sorry you're uncomfortable when parents deviate from gender stereotypes when naming their child. [/quote]

NP but the issue is the deviation only goes in one direction.  You're not into breaking gender stereotypes, you just have internalized a lot of terrible messaging about femininity.[/quote]

I was being sarcastic, which definitely didn't come through. I was the PP who said I thought calling OP an ignorant sexist for liking the name Hunter was going a bit too far and pointed out that the name was definitely trending more gender-neutral (which the PP actually seemed to acknowledge in her reply to me, perhaps without realizing).

I don't think it takes a lot of insight to recognize why little girls are more likely to have "boy" names and why "gender neutral" clothing basically amounts to "boy" clothes with perhaps less trucks. I replied flippantly because I felt the poster I was responding was going to an extreme and even tried to quibble with my wording when I agreed with her and said:

"And, I'm sure you're right there is a lot to unpack as to why that is the case...but it's a leap to call OP an ignorant sexist."

That said, my daughters have very stereotypically feminine names (think flowers). I've gotten low-key accused of trying to push an outdated view of femininity on them as a result. Think there is little point in reading a lot into naming choices and/or making heated accusations over those choices. [/quote]

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