Unisex 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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17 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Laurence Laurence is the one name on this site that changes sex at the Channel: it is a man's name in English and a woman's name in French.
Unisex Latin 98 in 2025
Bobbie Bobbie is 83 percent female in our records and England and Wales ranks it 523rd on 110 births — far above the United States at 2072nd, reversing what an American nickname-name would usually do.
Unisex English 96 in 2025
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.
Girl English 89 in 2025
Kerry Kerry is 53 percent female in our records — the fourth-closest to an even split on this site, behind only Emerson, Riley and Jackie.
Unisex Irish 77 in 2025
Lynn Lynn is a name from a Welsh and Gaelic word for a lake or a pool below a waterfall.
Unisex Welsh 84 in 2025
Jan Jan is 66 percent female in our records because two unrelated uses collide — it is the ordinary man's name for John across Dutch, Polish and Czech, and a woman's short form of Janet and Janice in English.
Unisex Dutch 52 in 2025
Laurie Laurie is a name meaning laurel, and it is genuinely mixed by country — masculine in Britain as a short form of Laurence, feminine in America as a short form of Laura.
Girl Latin 60 in 2025
Loren Loren means from Laurentum, a town rather than a plant — the laurel reading came second, and the town itself was probably named for its laurels, so the connection is real but runs the long way round.
Unisex Latin 95 in 2025
Sandy Sandy shortens Alexander and Alexandra, meaning defender of the people — and in Scotland it is the standard familiar form of Alexander, which is why it reads as Scottish rather than merely short.
Unisex Scottish 67 in 2025
Claude Claude is a name from a Roman family name meaning lame, one of very few widely used names with an unflattering literal sense.
Unisex Latin 40 in 2025
Jody Jody serves Judith, Joseph and Jude at once, which is why it is 64 percent female rather than resolving to one side — three unrelated parents pulling in different directions.
Unisex English 56 in 2025
Charly Charly is a unisex name in France, a respelling of Charlie meaning "free man," from the Germanic. It ranks sixtieth in France and is recorded in our data as unisex, which is rare at this rank in any market.
Unisex French 64 in 2025
Merle Merle means blackbird, and it is one of the genuinely mixed names on this site — 33 percent of the births in our records are female, and our data marks it reviving.
Unisex French 38 in 2025
Christy Christy serves both Christine and Christopher, so it is used for both sexes — 98 percent of the births in our records are female, but the masculine use remains ordinary in Ireland.
Girl English 34 in 2025
Kim Kim is a name that arrives from three unrelated directions — an English place name, Kipling's 1901 novel, and the most common Korean surname in the world.
Unisex English 40 in 2025
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.
Unisex English 31 in 2025
Alix Alix is a unisex name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," a medieval French form of Adelaide that later merged with Alice.
Unisex French 35 in 2025

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