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** It's debatable whether her first name (at least) is actually a gender bender, as "Billie" was a common girl's nickname at one point. Billie Jean King and Billie Holiday are perhaps the two best-known examples.
* Alex, from the webcomic ''[http://www.gomanga.com/webmanga/index.php?series=aoi Aoi House]''. is a guy... But it's short for [http://www.gomanga.com/webmanga/index.php?series=aoi&page=22 Alexis], which is in the Country-dependent list.
** Alex from ''Building 12'', on the other hand, is a girl...though everyone in the house pretends otherwise at her request. It's...[https://web.archive.org/web/20121110024647/http://www.building12.net/issue1/page23.htm complicated]
* Ichigo Kurosaki from ''[[Bleach]]'' - the typical translation of his name is "strawberry"! His father tells him it means "the one who protects", but it was probably the mother who chose his name. Just [[Berserk Button|don't try to bring this up in front of him]]. It's spelled with the kanji for "one" and "guardian", but still sounds like "strawberry".
* The two more "masculine"-acting soldiers among the Sailor Senshi of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' are named Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter) and Haruka Tenoh (Sailor Uranus); the former is a [[Huge Schoolgirl]] who loves martial arts, while the latter is a [[Butch Lesbian]]. Both names are traditionally male boys' names; however, in recent years, the name "Haruka" has become more of a unisex name.
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