Names go in and out of style all the time. It has nothing to do with the agenda they are trying to push in this article. We named ours after the bible, family and heritage. No fads here.
“Names go in and out of style all the time.”
About 20 years ago I was a regular visitor of a skilled nursing facility where my Mom was. Most of the ladies there were born between 1905 and 1920. Ruth was a very common name them. Sixty years from now the nursing homes will be full of Michaelas, Mckaylas, Michealas, Brittany, Brittnee, Britni, Dakotas, Savannahs, Summers, etc.
There are a lot of names that don’t indicate sex, including Ashley (remember “Gone with the Wind”), Chris, Kelly, Kerry, Kim, Cory, Leslie, Lindsey, Pat, Sean, Marion, Sidney, Alex, Francis, Evelyn, Bobby, Jerry, Jordan, . Yes, some of them have giveaway spelling differences (Francis/Frances, Marion/Marian) and some are pronounced differently (Evelyn female/Eve-Lyn male). I have personally known men named Shirley, Gail and Laurie, and women named Dean and Sean and there is Jedediah (Fox News contributor) and Michael Learned, an actress. Pearl used to be a man’s name. Names do change over time. My biggest beef right now is common names spelled in really exotic ways no one would ever guess or remember.