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dgiaimo Nov 28, 2003

Did anyone else notice that this site also has information on frequency of first names? Apparently, my first name, Daniel, is the 12th most popular male first name in the United States; frequency ...

thatdarngirlOG 2002

Nov 29, 2003

Lindsay is the 1,211th most popular male first name in the United States; frequency is 0.004%; percentile is 90.011 [SourceCBN]

Lindsay is the 302nd most popular female first name in the United States; frequency is 0.060%; percentile is 66.507 [SourceCBN]

I'm guessing this means that there are some guys out there named lindsay?

dgiaimoOG 2003

Nov 29, 2003

Yup. A lot of those English/Irish names that end in y are unisex. Shirley, Courtney, Lindsay, Terry, etc...

thatdarngirlOG 2002

Nov 29, 2003

Have you ever met a male Lindsay?

dgiaimoOG 2003

Nov 30, 2003

Personally, no. (Actually, I think I've only met two people with that name, and one of them spells it Lyndsi.) But a quick search on the internet turned up this, so there definitely are guys with that name.

yodasuckaOG 2003

Nov 30, 2003

I HAVE! I HAVE! hes a big guy too... like you would expect him to be a skinny nerdy guy... but hes really tall and built... MMMM! haha ok i'm done...

forrestinaOG 2002

Nov 30, 2003

heyyy is he really blonde?

yodasuckaOG 2003

Nov 30, 2003

u met him u retard...

forrestinaOG 2002

Nov 30, 2003

relax capitan that's what i was trying to figure out.

yodasuckaOG 2003

Nov 30, 2003

haha yea, i only know ONE male Lindsay and hes it...

toxicgirlOG 2003

Nov 30, 2003

The guitarist from Fleetwood Mac is named Lindsay Buckingham...he used to be married to Stevie Nicks.

thatdarngirlOG 2002

Nov 30, 2003

Interesting..it just doesn't seem like a good guy's name.

dgiaimoOG 2003

Nov 30, 2003

Really? It sounds a little unusual to me because I'm so used to Lindsay being a girl's name, but, frankly, I think it sounds better as a guy's name.

thatdarngirlOG 2002

Nov 30, 2003

Why do you say that? I think it's a very feminine name.

dgiaimoOG 2003

Nov 30, 2003

To me "Lindsay" sounds very neutral, and I don't like girl's names to sound neutral. To be honest, there are very few girl's names that I actually like, and almost all of those that I do like end in 'a'. I tend to think they sound more feminine that way.

thatdarngirlOG 2002

Dec 1, 2003

Really? I tend to think that L's are very feminie. Like, even the name Lawrence isn't too manly sounding and...well I don't like the name Larry but it's the nasty A in there that makes it sound more manly then the L does.

thefunkyfreshFounder thatdarngirl

Dec 1, 2003

what about luke? or louis? or lester, lenny, lambert, lampton, or lonnie? lonnie can go both ways. hehe... go both ways... hehe

thatdarngirlOG 2002 thefunkyfresh

Dec 1, 2003

Hah, when I was trying to think up L names I couldn't think of ANY! But you're right. Luke..that's definetly a guy and Louis that can be a girl name, Lester..ugh.

dgiaimoOG 2003 thatdarngirl

Dec 1, 2003

L's definitely do help make a name sound more feminine. In fact, my favorite girl's name has an l in it. But "Lindsay" (as well as the other names I mentioned) sounds more tomboyish than feminine to me.