Tomboyish Name/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A girl has a boy's name. Such a character is usually a tomboy, although she does not necessarily have to be.

• Straight: Samantha is a Tomboy and wants everyone to call her Sam.
• Exaggerated: Sam is the manliest woman alive.
• Downplayed: Sam has a boy's name, but is not actually much of a tomboy.
• Justified:
  • Sam just likes her name that way.
  • Sam's parents wanted a boy.
• Inverted: Samuel is called Sammi.
• Subverted: Sam is very tomboyish, but insists people call her Samantha.
• Double Subverted: ...however, later on she decides to go by Sam.
• Parodied: The girl is called "Johnathan James Ironfist".
• Zig Zagged: Sam is sometimes called Samantha, and sometimes Sam.
• Averted: Samantha goes by Samantha.
• Enforced: "We need to keep the computer's gender ambiguous until the Reveal. Let's give her a name that's slowly becoming unisex."
• Lampshaded: "Oh, for...this is the fifth time this week someone's mistaken me for a guy!"
• Invoked: A newborn girl's parents give her a boyish name because they hope their daughter will be a Tomboy.
• Exploited: Sam uses her Gender Blender Name to successfully pull off Samus Is a Girl.
• Defied: Samantha doesn't want to be a tomboy, and forces everyone to call her Samantha.
• Discussed: "Honestly Sam, if you went by Samantha you'd probably confuse less people."
• Conversed: "Why do tomboys in these shows always have male-sounding names?"

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