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{{quote|'''Mamma Jacobs''': ''What did you say your name was? Brandon? Butch?''
'''Chuck''': ''Chuck?''
'''Mamma Jacobs''': ''Chuck! I knew it was something unladylike.''
|''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', "Girth"}}
Basically, a girl has a boy's name. Frequently used to indicate some form of masculinity in the character; if not, expect the character to be very feminine and lament her name.
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This can become [[An Aesop]] if said Charlie Somebody is in a traditionally male-oriented profession; for instance, the ''[[Step by Step]]'' episode where J.T. immediately dismisses female mechanics, before handing his car over to "Sam", who is apparently the best mechanic in town. The [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|message]] can quickly get [[Anvilicious]] if done more than once in a series. Though you can hardly blame someone if the name means "male"/"man" or include "son" (see: Andrew, Charles. Benjamin).
Sometimes a variation of the [[Embarrassing First Name]] and [[Last-Name Basis]]. Can potentially lead to [[Actually, I Am Him]], and a good way to help disguise the fact that [[Samus Is a Girl]] until the right moment. The [[Super-Trope]] is [[Gender Blender Name]].
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** Samanya from [[Red Faction]]: Guerilla is normally called Sam for short.
** In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sam is Charlie's love interest/Odd Friendship.
* '''Alex''':
** ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' also has a girl named Alex.
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* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', while "Yellow" (Japanese pronunciation, ''ierou'') is by no means a real name in any language, it sounds very masculine to Japanese ears, as "''ie''" and "''rou''" are both common suffixes to male names. Fittingly, Yellow goes around [[Samus Is a Girl|masquerading]] [[Bifauxnen|as a boy]] for the first two arcs she appears in.
* [[King Incognito|Seth]] of ''[[Trinity Blood]]''. "Did your parents want a boy?" "I have two older brothers, you'd think they'd had enough."
* In ''[[Nisekoi]]'', there's Seishirou Tsugumi, teenage [[Professional Killer]]. At a very young age, she was unofficially adopted by American hitman Claude, who didn't bother to check her gender before looking through a list of male Japanese names and picking one for her. In more than ten years, [[What an Idiot!|he hasn't realized]] that his protege has grown to be not a handsome boy, but a beautiful girl. Granted, she's [[Bifauxnen]], but that's because she finds male clothing better suited to her work, and she hasn't had a chance to practice being feminine; when she '''does''' get put in a dress, she's dazzling.
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== [[Fan
* In ''The Show That Never Ends'', a [[Harry Potter]] fanfic, one of Harry's coworkers {{spoiler|and Remus's eventual love interest}} is a woman who goes by Diz. It is later revealed that her full name is Disraeli Taylor; her mother was a historian. In fact, her sisters' names are Churchill and Dickens, and her brothers are Tennyson and Darwin.
* Charlie Duncan of ''[[Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way vs. Canon|Sapphire Eleanor Rose Suzette De Mont vs. Canon]]''. Her full name is Charlotte, but no one ever calls her that—very fitting of an [[Action Girl]].
* Fusion Gundam in ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'' are given gender mehca-name, despite the group themselves still each other by their human names. For example, Hornet is still called Geri, a male-sounding name, despite being a lady. United is often called Mel, which pretty helps tell which Melanie is which as the other one is given Redd.
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* Arguably, Saavik in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' movies: there was a definite pattern to Vulcan names in [[Star Trek: The Original Series|TOS]] (men are called Spock, Sarek, Surak etc.; women are called T'Pau, T'Pring, T'Lar etc.) and she had a name that fitted the male pattern. (Since then, we've seen Vulcans whose names don't fit either pattern, but at the time...)
** The character was originally conceived of as male, and wasn't switched to a woman until later drafts. They kept the name, though.
* Alex, the main character from ''[[Flashdance]]'', works part-time as a welder in a steel mill. The [[Wrench Wench|character]] is initially introduced behind an opaque welding mask and [[Men Are Generic, Women Are Special|presumed male]] by default.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Sydney Bristow, the main character of ''[[Alias]]''. Her friends even call her "Syd".
* In the BBC series ''[[Sherlock]]'', John Watson's sister is called Harry. Having learned her name and the fact that she used to be married to a woman, Sherlock makes an almost accurate series of deductions regarding John's "brother".
* In ''[[Full House]]'', there is DJ, who is the oldest daughter but the abbreviated initials are at best gender-neutral, if not leaning towards being boyish-sounding. It stands for Donna-Jo (not Joanna, not Josephine, just Jo).
* Dylan from ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]''
* In an inversion, [[The Mentalist]], Patrick Jane, is generally referred to as Jane.
* The [[S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series)|2017 reboot of ''S.W.A.T.'']] may have given the lone woman on the team the name of "Christina" but it's often shortened to "Chris".
== [[Music]] ==
* A rather famous inversion: Johnny Cash's Boy Named Sue. The original poem was written by Shel Silverstein.
* Downplayed with comes to the [[Spice Girls]], thanks to Geri. While remaining a lady, Geri is called that okay it's short for her birth name, Geraldine. Same goes with the Melanies, resulting in Mel, Brown and Chisholm, though the latter is the tomboy.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler Mickie James is a former Women's Champion. Granted, this is wrestling, and stranger things have happened than a man holding a women's belt, but she is a woman.
* Former WWE ring announcer Mike McGuirk (real name Michelle).
{{quote|'''[[Bobby Heenan]]''': Mike?! What's her brother's name - Sally?
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** Shou Toramaru. Not only is her given name masculine, her surname uses a male suffix!
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' brought us a female disc jocky named ''Toni''.
* Charlie, the [[Big Bad]] (more or less) of ''[[Don't Starve]]'' is female, though it is possible it is short for "Charlotte" or "Charlene".
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
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* Inverted with Mandark from ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', whose real name is "Susan".
* [[Mike Lu and Og|Michelanne "Mike" Mazinsky]].
* Charlie, the female protagonist of ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]''.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Actresses with Tomboyish names include [[Billie Piper]], [[Hayden Panettiere]], [[Michael Learned]], [[Glenn Close]], [[Jamie King|James "Jamie" King]], [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], Glen Close, [[Christopher Norris]],
* ''[[ER]]'' actress Michael Michele. What, was Michelle Michele to punny?
* Michael Learned, from ''[[The Waltons]]''.
** Her birth name was "Michael Michele Williams". Even better: she was named after her mother's best friend, a woman named "Michael."
* Barack Obama's mother, who went by her middle name Ann, was named Stanley after her father. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYA_wfuL4GQ Probably where this reporter's confusion came from.]
* [[Anne Rice]] was for some time Howard Allen O'Brien.
* A bizarre twist on this trope: over the last hundred years, Ashley has gone from being a male name to a female one. (Not to anyone who has seen ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', though.)
** As has Meredith, though that could be more the transition from Wales to the U.S. than time...
** Not to mention Madi'''son'''; the name's popularity as a female name has been credited to its appearance as a name chosen by the mermaid in ''[[Splash]]''.
** As mentioned above, Shirley was a distinctly male name until 1849, when a book came out featuring a female protagonist who had been named Shirley (because her father had wanted a boy), thereby popularizing the name for girls instead.
** Andrea is a very common men's name in Greece (
** "Lee" and any names that end in "-lee" or a variation thereof were at one point exclusively male.
** When Howard Hawks hired Leigh Brackett to co-write the screenplay for ''[[The Big Sleep (film)|The Big Sleep]]'' (with [[William Faulkner]]), he was surprised at their first meeting to find the writer he hired was a woman.
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* Former [[Rob Zombie|White Zombie]] bassist Sean Yseult.
* Actress [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]]. Her first name isn't, but her middle name definitely is.
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* Justifiablely averted in Germany where parents are banned from assigning names that doesn't clearly designate their child's gender.
** Can still happen with middle names. Just ask actor [[Klaus Maria Brandauer]] or comedian Markus Maria Profitlich.
* ESPN Sportscenter anchor Chris
** Chris Evert counts, too.
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