Gender Blender Name/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A person's name contradicts his/her gender.

  • Straight: A woman gives birth to a baby girl. The baby is named "Bob".
  • Exaggerated: A woman gives birth to a baby girl, and gives the baby the manliest name on Earth.
  • Downplayed: The baby has a Tomboyish Name or a unisex one.
  • Justified: Bob's father wanted the baby to have a boy's name, no matter what.
  • Inverted: The baby is given an impossibly girly name.
  • Subverted: After trying to name the baby "Bob", the mother named her "Bella" instead.
  • Double Subverted: They then went back to conclusions, and named the baby, "Bob".
  • Parodied: The most womanly woman on Earth has the manliest name possible.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: A woman gives birth to a baby girl. The baby is named, "Alice".
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "WHAT!? They named the baby girl 'Bob'!?"
  • Invoked: The woman specifically names her daughter Bob because she wants the child to be mistaken for a boy.
  • Exploited: Bob uses her Gender Blender Name to successfully pull off Samus Is a Girl.
  • Defied: A woman is about to give birth, but neither her nor her husband want to name the baby girl a boy's name.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Ha ha. A baby on TV is named "Bob". And it's a girl. Ha ha."

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