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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 generally agree with this except that I also find that the people who pick traditionally male names for daughters are also trend followers who then actually have very traditionally feminine choices for their daughters (dance classes, cute dresses)—they don’t seem to be the ones giving their girls gender neutral haircuts and dressing them in the sweats and Tess from the boys section at target.  So while I think the trend reflect s misogyny, the individuals following the trend seem to have different mindsets.[/quote]

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