Unisex Girl Names

Names given to boys and girls in real numbers, not merely in theory. The traffic is almost always one-way — names move from boys to girls and rarely back — so a name that is unisex today usually will not be in twenty years.

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41 names, most popular first in the United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Emery Emery is a name of Germanic origin, from Emmerich, generally analyzed as combining elements meaning work or power with ric, meaning ruler.
Germanic #74 in US
Kennedy Kennedy is a name of Irish origin meaning "helmeted head" or "ugly head," from the Gaelic ceann, head, and éidigh.
Irish #85 in US
Aubrey Aubrey is a name of Germanic origin meaning "elf ruler."
Germanic #146 in US
Ashley Ashley is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree clearing."
English #164 in US
Skylar Skylar is a name of Dutch origin meaning "scholar."
Dutch #167 in US
Blair Blair is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "plain" or "field."
Scottish #169 in US
Haven Haven is a name of Old English origin meaning "harbor" or "place of safety."
English #190 in US
Stevie Stevie is a name of Greek origin meaning "crown" or "garland."
Greek #203 in US
Bailey Bailey is a name of Old French origin meaning "bailiff" or "steward."
French #208 in US
Presley Presley is a unisex name of English origin meaning "priest's meadow".
English #225 in US
Mackenzie Mackenzie means son of Coinneach, and the missing sound is the point — the Gaelic ends in a soft ch that English cannot spell, so the anglicized ending was written as a z that was never pronounced as one.
Scottish #228 in US
Andrea Andrea is a name meaning "manly" or "brave," from the Greek aner.
Greek #235 in US
Camille Camille is a unisex name of Latin origin, from a Roman word for a young attendant at religious ceremonies.
French #240 in US
Collins Collins is a unisex name with two separate origins. In Ireland it anglicizes Ó Coileáin, from a word for a young hound; in England it is a patronymic meaning son of Colin, itself a medieval pet form of Nicholas.
Irish #241 in US
Reagan Reagan means little king, and birth records show the opposite of what most people assume — American births more than halved during the first two years of Ronald Reagan's presidency and did not take off until a decade after he left office.
Irish #248 in US
Harlow Harlow is a unisex name from an Essex place name meaning "army hill," most likely a mound where a Saxon assembly met rather than a battlefield.
English #309 in US
Teagan Teagan is a unisex name of Irish origin, usually derived from Tadhgán, a diminutive of Tadhg meaning "poet".
Irish #340 in US
Sydney Sydney is a name from a French place name — Saint-Denis, contracted by English speakers — and the Australian city was named after a man who bore it.
English #348 in US
Ivory Ivory is a unisex name taken from the material, whose word comes through French and Latin from an Egyptian word for elephant.
English #378 in US
Kalani Kalani is a unisex name of Hawaiian origin meaning "the heavens" or "the royal one".
Hawaiian #387 in US
Meredith Meredith is a Welsh man's name that turned female in America — 95 percent of recorded births are female, and the Welsh Maredudd it comes from was borne by princes of Deheubarth.
Welsh #469 in US
Rylie Rylie is a girl's name in the United States, also used for some boys, and it's a spelling of Riley.
Irish, English #476 in US
Saige Saige is a girl's name, also used for some boys, and it's a modern spelling of Sage.
Latin, English #480 in US
Ainsley Ainsley is a name of English and Scottish use, given mainly to girls, from a surname meaning "solitary clearing."
Scottish, English #483 in US
Marlowe Marlowe is a unisex name from an English surname, usually traced to Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
English #523 in US
Lilian Lilian is the most evenly split name in this whole sweep — 46 percent of recorded births are female, because France uses it for boys and the English-speaking markets use it for girls.
English #561 in US
Imani Imani is a girl's name in the United States, also used for boys, meaning "faith" or "belief."
Swahili, Arabic #579 in US
Paris Paris has two unrelated sources — the Trojan prince and the French city — and France barely uses it, ranking the name 7,188th while the United States has it at 592nd and 80 percent female.
Greek #592 in US
Sasha Sasha is a unisex name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," the Russian familiar form of Alexander.
Russian #684 in US
Billie Billie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."
Germanic #693 in US
Leslie Leslie is a Scottish place name turned surname turned given name, and it has crossed sexes: about 71 percent of recorded births are female, though the name began firmly male and remains so in Britain.
Scottish #714 in US
Romi Romi is a unisex name with no single source, arriving separately from Hebrew, Japanese and European naming, where it serves as a short form of Romy and Romina.
uncertain #817 in US
Darcy Darcy is a name of Norman French origin meaning "from Arcy," a place in Normandy.
French #858 in US
Dana Dana is a name with several unrelated sources — a Danish origin, a Hebrew feminine of Daniel, and an Irish mother goddess.
English #1,028 in US
Stacy Stacy comes from Eustace or Anastasia, two unrelated names, and its meanings are correspondingly different — fruitful or resurrection.
Greek #1,664 in US
Bobbie Bobbie is 83 percent female on record and England and Wales ranks it 523rd on 110 births — far above the United States at 2,072nd, reversing what an American nickname-name would usually do.
English #2,072 in US
Toni Toni has no established meaning, because Antonia does not — the Roman family name Antonius is probably Etruscan, and the flower reading attached to Anthony is a Renaissance invention.
English #2,265 in US
Laurie Laurie is a name meaning laurel, and it is mixed by country — masculine in Britain as a short form of Laurence, feminine in America as a short form of Laura.
Latin #2,847 in US
Christy Christy serves both Christine and Christopher, so it is used for both sexes — 98 percent of recorded births are female, but the masculine use remains ordinary in Ireland.
English #4,234 in US
Leigh Leigh means a woodland clearing, and the same word is hiding at the end of dozens of modern names — the -leigh in Kayleigh and Ashlyn's cousins is this word, borrowed for its sound rather than its sense.
English #4,462 in US
Rua Rua is a name from the Irish word for red or red-haired, used for both boys and girls.
Irish #6,921 in US

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