> > What about guys with seemingly female names? We went on a cruise once and met a guy named Kim. "Leslie" is another name that I think was originally a male name but shifted gender, so now it sounds weird on a guy. "Jackie" is one of those few names that can go either way just as easily. There are others, I know, but those are the only two that come to mind.
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> > La"'Ellery' is a ruling guy's name, though"Zorra
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> Daryl, Linsey, Robin, Ashley, Chase, Terry, Royce, Tyler, Hillary, Blair, Jordan, Jules...
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> I can't allow you to count "Jackie" as both the male and female forms are abbreviations. The female form of Kim is also an abbreviation, but the male is an actual name, I think.
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> winter"but not Ross"mute

I have a theory that when a "pet" form of an English first name ends in a "y", then it's a man, but when it ends in an "i", then it's a woman. Could some native English speaker confirm or deny this theory, please?