This troper knew a woman named George.

This troper was friends with a girl who's name was Jean. This wouldn't have been confusing if she weren't so insistant that it was pronounced like the french masculine variant. The fact that she was also rather androgenous made her a walking ViewerGenderConfusion.

This troper's name is Jaime (I am female). In and of itself, this is a pretty gender-neutral name, but annoyingly enough it's ''forever'' being spelt "Jamie", which is the masculine spelling. Adding to the confusion, a common nickname of mine is ''James.'' Also? I'm getting a haircut soon. A short, ''spiky'' haircut. Heheh.

Just for the record, in Spanish "Jaime" (the Spanish version of "James") is an entirely male name. You will never find a Hispanic female named "Jaime" outside of the United States. On the other hand, "Jamie" is an anglicism, and pretty much sounds ok to Spanish-speakers whether it's used for a male or a female.

Dallas as a first name. I asked to join a singing group at my college and got this as a reply: "I'm sorry, but [group] is only composed of female students." Cue me replying "But I'm a girl....." I live for the awkward moments, really.

This troper has a brother and a sister-in-law both named Shawn. Thanksgiving is going to be fun this year.

This troper's name is Ellie. You'd think it would be pretty obvious that it's a female name, especially as it's most often used as a diminutive for Elizabeth, Elisa, etc. (In my case, it's my full name, but that's beside the point.) I can't even count how many times I've been called Eli.... sigh.

This troper is not entirely sure which gender her name goes under, but has seen it prominently in male name lists. ... Though she's only ever met one another "Nova", who was female.

A name after a stage of stars going Nova? Win!!!

In origin, Nova is the ''feminine'' form of the Latin for "new". Pretty name.

The above troper is very flattered at the compliments towards her name. I'd also like to include that my penname/artist's alias is usually N.J. [Last Name Here] when not online. This causes a surprising amount of frustration when trying to business under this name, especially due to the fact I'm already rather androgenous...

How would you rate a troper named Mawi?

While not quite a true Gender Blender, this troper spent a lot of high school being addressed by her last name because she shared her first name with four other girls in her grade alone. The catch? Her last name is a very common male first name. More than a few parents/friends/new students gave my friends funny looks when they introduced their very much female friend, Thomas.

Similar for me. My name is a very common name that is spelled various ways, so I just go by my last name, Cooper, to lower frustration. Definetly more obscure than Thomas though.

This troper has a friend named Danielle (she's named for her father Dan) and briefly worked for a French Canadian fellow named Daniel. Confusion on the part of many ensued.

French names generally have gender blender aspects to them. Danielle/Daniel, Jean, Joan, Renee/Rene (I'm a Renee, BTW), etc. They all sound similar and they're PRACTICALLY SPELLED THE SAME. Being Bifauxnen doesn't help either, I have to wear skirts ever time I visit a French-speaking area.

This troper's father is called Kim, which is a perfectly male name in Scandinavia (and Korea), but not in America - which leads him receiving letters addressed to "Mrs. Kim" whenever he's dealing with Americans, and VERY confused stares when showing up to meetings in the US with people who don't know him personally. On the flipside, people in Scandinavia generally had to be told that no, ''Kim Possible'' is not a man.

Same situation, same country, same sex, different name.

Kim is also a Korean name--a name usually given to ''males''.

Actually, Kim is a family name in Korea, so common for men and women.

This editor's (American) uncle is named Kim, and everyone calls him Kimmy as well.

Oddly, in Britain Kim is a male name, like for instance arch-traitor KimPhilby or the eponymous Kim in RudyardKipling's novel.

This (British) troper has known a female called Kim, zero males called Kim (and just FYI she was also British).

In Sweden, both men and women can be called Kim. I had a female classmate called Kim and one of the female teachers at my children's school is also a Kim.

The Miami Dolphins had a defensive lineman during the early 1980s named Kim Bokamper.

Super L dated a girl named Jean who had a male fraternal twin also named Jean. Not Jean and Gene mind you. Jean Marie and Jean Paul. Her parents are weird.

She also knows a married couple both of whom answer to Chris.

This Troper and his girlfriend both respond to Nick (Nicholas and Nicole)

This troper's brother was named Madison quite a few years before the movie ''Splash''... in which the mermaid, whose natural name is unpronounceable by humans and ''shatters glass'', casts about for some temporary name and hits upon a street sign "Madison." It was supposed to be ''funny'', you guys! A girl who unknowingly takes on a boy's name! Kinda went over the heads of the various mothers who started the "my daughter Madison" trend, and now this troper's brother gets mail (and phone calls) that assume he's a woman. Hey, he's even had court papers that state something about "the father of the child" and then proceed to use ''the feminine pronouns''.

This Troper knows a guy named Madison (born in the mid-late 1980s). He absolutely hates the "my daughter Madison" trend because the name really means "son of Maude." ''Son.'' Before this, though, I had only known female Madisons and my younger sister goes to school with a Madison and a Maddison.

Shawn is another name that's going this direction, at least in the US (Sean is still pretty exclusively male, but Shawn has about a 50/50 chance of being a female). This troper's mother was probably one of the originals, circa 1950. (Reading mail in our family is always good for laughs, as this troper has an ambiguously female name as well - you can always spot junk if it's addressed to "Mr.")

I know a girl named Seana - yes, spelled that way. For some reason, people call her "Sheena" if they just read it...

This troper has two female cousins named Nicholas and James. Plus a male cousin with the middle name Nicole.

This troper has ''three'' female cousins named, in order of age, Shannon, Courtney, and Ryan. In addition, his wife is named Georgy (though that's short for Georgiana).

Yes, well, two of those three would be expected to be female...at least, they would be in the United States.

While this troper was in England, he had a (female) flatmate called Charlie (apparently short for Charlene), and a friend who lived with a guy named Loren.

Charlie is also pretty common as a shortening for Charlotte (others prefer Lottie or Lotte).

This troper is a female named Travis. It's her mother's middle name, and was HER grandmother's maiden name. The troper in question wound up using her middle name to avoid confusion.

This troper knew a young man named Stacey. Poor bastard.

This troper did too! He told me he was named for the actor Stacy Keach.

This troper has a prominent female roleplaying character named Jimmy. It's technically short for Imogene, but lord help you if you call her that to her face.

My mother and stepfather ''both'' have Gender Blender Names--not only their first names but their middle names as well! One of them is named Sidney Lee and the other is named Cory Lynn. But ''which one is which''?

Can't be sure, but Sidney is still a generally male spelling.

This troper actually went to high school with a girl named Sidney, so I really can't guess on this one.

This troper has an uncle and a (female) roleplaying buddy who are both named Tracy. The uncle Tracy apparently went by his middle name, Allen, for a bit when he was younger, and he's usually addressed as Trace now.

This troper heard a story from when his parents were dating. His mother, named Georgia, was called "George" by her friends, while his father has always been known as "Terry" (Short for Theodore). Naturally, when they were introduced to people at a party as "George and Terry", those people made the obvious assumption.

This troper's father is called Casey, due to the fact that his Dutch nickname is usually mis-pronounced by English-speakers. Telemarketers often call for Mrs. Casey X. This troper's brother also went to school with a girl named Thomas.

MythSage's real name is Sam. He has encountered a number of Samanthas in his classes, all who used the nickname Sam. Hilarity ensued.

This troper (who is male) has a name on the list. For much of Main/TheEighties, the Weekly Reader Book Club was under the impression he was a girl.

{{Seanette}} went to school with two female Tracys (at least one of whom got slightly cute with the spelling), and a male Tracy. Very nice guy, but given this was a fairly rural small town, he probably learned to fight very young.

This troper mistook his friend's older sister for an older brother when first hearing his friend mention her name. This was mainly because it wasn't a very common name and the only person he knows with a similar name (one letter difference) is a guy. Also, it wasn't her full name, but a shortening of it (her full name was unmistakeably feminine).

ThisTroper knows a pair of siblings called Gabby and Alex. Gabby is the male, Alex is the female.

Gabriel and Alexandria, right?

ThisTroper's mother and father are named, respectively, Robin and Leslie. As they work together, this causes quite a bit of confusion for people calling them there.

Wow. Although completely unrelated, This Troper had an English teacher whose name was Robin Leslie. Coincidence indeed.

This troper has an Auntie Tim and Uncle Deb. They're married.

This troper recently attended a MagicTheGathering tournament with a "Sam" and a "Lily" on the bracket. Since there was only one girl there, she naturally assumed that she was the "Lily..." but actually, she was "Samantha." Lily? A dude.

This troper knows a girl named Eddie.

Don't we all?

ThisTroper has to remind herself every time she phones one of her clients, called Buenaventura, that said client is male, even when any other Buenaventura she knows is female. ThisTroper also met a guy called Paz, another typically female name, and was friends with one guy called Maria, and a girl called Jesus (Both of them had composite names, and that was just half the official name, yet still they introduced themselves that way)

This troper went to high school with a girl named Ashton.

'Shelby' is a gender-ambiguous name. It is also this troper's name, and that of her mother's friend's husband. HilarityEnsues.

This troper name (Anthony) is a perfect masculine name, but I just can't stand be called "Tony"...I don't know why, but I think "Tony" will suffer the same fate that "Alex", "Sam" and "Meredith"...

When This Troper was at her cousin Anna's baptism, she found herself playing with an adorable, blonde-haired little girl from the other side of her cousin's family. This darling little girl's name was Ryan.

This troper's sister is named Josephine and goes by [=JoJo=]. All of the other Josephines around her age (11) that she has met have gone "Josie". It seems that "Jo" isn't an appropriate (or cutesy enough) name for a girl anymore, even though there are famous "Jo's" like Jo March from ''Little Women'' and Jo Rowling (JKR herself).

This troper was called "Patty" (short for Patricia) for most of her life. With her parent's accents, it was pronounced "Paddy", which is a boy's name in the part of England she visited a few years ago. She got lots of weird looks that trip. Currently, for unrelated reasons, she now goes by "Pat", which has lead to some letters addressed to "Mr. Pat {last name}".

This mostly European troper was astonished to hear that one of his American nieces is named Mackenzie. His reaction was: "But that's a Scottish surname, and you call her Mack, too?"

This troper's gender-neutral name (Casey) and girly looks in grade school was the source of endless embarrassment and confusion from teachers. He suspects that this just MIGHT'VE been where his transgender fetish got started...

Chris. It's almost as bad as "Alex" for confusion. And it probably doesn't help that I'm 6'3" and.. stockily built. I have been mistaken for a man so, so many times...

My boyfriend and I are Alexandra and Christopher, but naturally we go by Alex and Chris. On paper, with only our nicknames, we could be any combination of genders. Yay for androgynous names!

This troper has to deal with the name "Courtney". His mother named him that because it's a perfectly valid boy's name, in Jamaica and in Europe. Not so much in mainland North America. Fortunately, the people he meets these days don't bring it up (or if they do, never anywhere remotely close to him). Though seriously, what is it with North America and turning boys' names into girls' ones?

This troper shares your pain. Exact same name. HilarityEnsues when people started planning various welcome parties for me (My school adds people to the roster before they actually transfer there) without knowing my actual gender. Well, HilarityEnsues for everyone but me.

I dare you to find at least one forum where {{raekuul}} is not mistaken for a lesbian on the basis of his screen name. I dare you. Either it has happened, or I am not there yet. There is no in between.

This troper changed the spelling of her name from Dani to Danny just to confuse people about her gender.

It was embarrassing when substitutes didn't know the name of this troper was the ''feminine'' variation of John. Also, she knew a boy named Kelly who was on the football team.

Jannis. A pretty gender neutral name for everyone I guess, just not in Italy where it is used as a Male and/or Female name.

Gender-neutral except when it's male and/or female? What?

Gender Neutral in Germany. Not so much in Italy though.

ThisTroper has the unisex name of Ashton so I've been mistaken for a guy by various paperwork (nearly got me in the wrong dorm once; apparently the people didn't check what I marked for gender). It doesn't help that my name is shared with a male celebrity.

This troper's sister goes by Cris to take the advantages of gender assumptions. My own name, Cameron, is becoming increasingly considered a feminine, or at the least, unisex name. This is just bizarre in light of it's origin as a Celtic warrior's name; it literally means 'bent nose/crooked nose' and implies someone who's battle-prone enough to get their nose broken, which is why it suits me.

This troper, a trans woman, tries to pass her old name off as this when she has to deal with people who do not realize she is trans but have her old name.

This troper's great-grandfather's first name was Hillary. Not that a certain senator/ex-prez candidate hasn't made it manly again...

This troper, who is minoring in Japanese, is named Ray. Sometimes he writes it as "Rei." His friend, who is taking advanced-level Japanese, has said on more than one occasion that that's a feminine name. Any other Japanese-speaking tropers wanna verify this?

Most Japanese names, Rei included, are unisex, though some are just more popular names for boys or girls. There are such things as male and female names, but there aren't many examples other than the obvious (names ending in 'ko', 'taro' .etc).

This (female) Troper has the unisex name of Izzy (a shortened form of Isobel). Although there haven't been too many mix-ups, one which particuarly stands out is when a guest at our house proclaimed something along the lines of "You have a very polite son.". This Troper's mother found it hilarious.

This troper's name is Ashley, and it's supposed to be a unisex name, but Ashley is mostly known to be the 'male' spelling (as opposed to Ashleigh). When she was young, she was awarded a ''boys'' trophy for swimming, engraved and with a male figurine so it couldn't be easily changed. Even worse, she was ''listed as a man'' on her medicare for ''24 years'' - it was only discovered when this troper tried to charge a gynacologist appointment to her medicare only to be met with a confused phonecall asking why a man was making that sort of claim. When she went into the medicare office to get it straightened out, there wasn't even an appropiate box to fill out - the lady at the desk had to write it in the margin. And on top of that, if someone knows that this troper is a girl, everyone usually spells her name completely wrong (Ashleigh, Ashlea, Ashlee, Ashlei, etc). Sigh.

ThisTroper has had the opposite problem. Despite being an Ashley, ''his'' medical record was female for a few years, ''his'' blood works record always listed ''him'' as female (since 1997 until 2009), and ''he'' has nearly been put into girl-only items by people assuming gender based upon name. While living in the USA, ''he'' went by Ash to avoid confusion...

ThisTroper was once behind a girl in a checkout line who's name was Stevie.

This Troper actually had a friend called Stevie - who happened to have a stepbrother also called Stevie.

This Troper also has a (female) friend named Stevie, who's little sister is name Jeffrie. Poor girl.

This Troper is Russian and his name is Sasha.

This troper has a niece with the middle name of Ryan. It helps that her first name is Elizabeth.

This Troper has a most uncommon girl's name which, by virtue of a convenient suffix, is the diminuitive of a not-too-common boy's name that's nonetheless a fair bit more common and known than the girl-version. This, combined with at times a rather masculine appearance, has had people confused for years. Keeping it in the family, both her parents have unisex names, and because they use their own surnames, people who do not know them personally are often confused about their respective genders and consequently their sexual orientation.

This troper, a man, used to be named Ariel. It's a perfectly masculine name in many parts of the world (you may remember former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon), but most Americans only know it as the name of the girly, damsel-in-distressy heroine of ''TheLittleMermaid''. I changed it after the teasing got to me.

This troper's mother is called Michelle. One of this troper's friends is called Micheal. Hilarity ALWAYS Ensues when French people attempt to remember which one is which...

This troper's younger brother is called Ashley. The name has several spellings of varying gender neutrality, which it retains in Britain (less so in the US). He normally goes by Ash nowadays. Amusingly enough I also knew an "Ashleigh" in secondary school, that spelling of name is strictly femanine. ''He'' wasn't.

In addition in a partial subversion, my own name, Sebastian, is universally masculine, but has been mistaken for a girls name (and often a French name, for some reason) on occasion.

This troper's brother was named Jean--a perfectly male name in Quebec, but not so much in the rest of Canada. He eventually had it changed to John.

This troper is a girl, but due to her personality, often gets called 'the third son' by her father, with male version of her name included. The fact she goes by her last name doesn't help.

This troper once joined a forum that was run by one of his friends. As time went on, when they referenced him, they kept shortening his username until it got to 'Emi'. Unless this troper or his friends tell people beforehand, they're left confused and weirded out. [ This was hilarious when the drama hoodies were handed out later in the year. This troper had his nickname on the back of his hoodie and his math teacher was left wondering how they got 'Emi' out of his real name... ]

This troper had a female classmate named Gabrielle in middle school whose name substitute teachers always mispronounced as "Gabriel".

One girl at this troper's school actually is named Gabriel, but pronounced the same as "Gabrielle". We call her Gabby. She is very feminine and sweet, but it was especially confusing when she played the male character Colin Craven (usually played by a boy soprano) in ''TheSecretGarden''.

This Troper has a classmate that is called Joe. He looks feminine enough to pass as a manly woman. For the first few weeks of school, she wasn't sure what his gender was until she asked one of her friends. The fact that her mother has seen Joe several times and refuses to believe he's a guy doesn't help his case either.

This troper's school has an Emmanuel, nicknamed Manny. This troper attends an all-girls' school.

This troper is named Whitney. This is North America, so this is commonly accepted as a girl's name. Of course, this was until this troper proved it to be a masculine name. What was even more fun was when I was in pottery class with my friend's brother, Whitney, and we went to France together on a school trip. We were not only mistaken as siblings, but British siblings.

This Troper has the gender nuetral name of Dallas. The best part; She was named after the heroine of a 19th century romance novel. She has never met another girl Dallas. And to top it off, when she tells people her name, they automatically spell it Dalice. *{{Facepalm}}*

Dallas, hon, is that you? Because if it is, I want to know how you got into tvtropes. XDyes, Dallas is a girl in this instance as well

This Troper is a female with the name of Robin. It doesn't help her choice in clothes are generally more masculine than most girls.

In Sweden Robin is one of the few names that are usable for both men and women.

This troper is named Conor, after Conor Clapton. However, as you may expect from any entry in this page, this Conor is female. This fact is not helped by her chosen username in most places (Shaon) is a male name in India and her voice has been described as like that of a 12-year-old boy.

My handle for several years has been {{Yubi Shines}}. One wouldn't think it was that androgynous, right? Not according to at least two-thirds of a few dozen online communities. Life was a lot less ambiguous when I went by "Star."

This editor has a has a brother by the name of Brook. As you might imagine, it has been a source of no small amount of drama and confusion through his life, even with the federal and state government.

This (male)troper's name is Chris, and a close (female) friend of mine is named Kris. There was a lot of confusion in high school...

This troper has a friend with an aunt named Norman.

This troper has been working on a story in which one of the main character's names is Emory. Emory is a girl, and the troper picked the name because she saw it on a list of girls' names in a random book. In the past week, I've discovered that although Emory is becoming more popular as a girl's name (its closest feminine variant is Emery), it's actually more commonly used for boys. Now I will have to add instances of my Emory being mistaken for a boy in story for more realism...

This Troper has one of these for a middle name, although the spelling gives it away. It's Noel/Noelle.

In this Troper's continent the name Andrea is a very popular name given to Females, however in Italy is one of the most popular names for Males. This name's origin (Greek andrós) is often translated as "manly, virile"...Such a creepy idea for a Girl's name.

When this troper served in a multinational organization in Afghanistan, the hundred-strong office contained one Andrea (German female), one Andrea (Italian male), one Andreas (German male), one Anders (Swedish male), one Andres (Estonian male), one Andrew (UK male), and one André (French male). (We fortunately did not have a Latvian Andris and a Polish Andrzej.) Much confusion ensued, particularly among our British bodyguards whose knowledge of foreign languages was limited.

This Troper has the ambiguous name Aubrey. People generally think of it as a feminine name (and good thing, too). However, on a spiritual retreat, my roommate told me that her boyfriend's name was Aubrey. Ugh. Bonus points for all of us rooming there, also; every single one of us had a gender-neutral name.

ThisTroper's name is pronounced "Dewey" in America but her real spelled name is actually meant for a girl.

Hello, nice to meet you. The name's Forrest. I'm a girl, actually.

I actually think that's cute. ^^

This troper's name is Julianne (female), and I share several classes with a Julien (male). Hilarity ensues? She is also friends with a male by the name of Phoenix.

Phoenix? Epic win.

This troper has been friends with a boy whose first name is "Adriane" since third grade. Luckily for him, everyone knows him by his middle name, which is both very masculine and very rare. In my case, meanwhile, my real middle name "Denise" is sometimes mispronounced as "Dennis" and was on one occasion written as such. It annoys me.

This troper's name is Valentine, which apparently is a boy's name in English-speaking countries (albeit a rare one). Also, my grandfather's real name was Carrie (he was named after his father's first wife, so it was completely intentional)

This Troper has an Aunt Toni and a (male) cousin Tony. We call them tone-eye and tone-why if we need to distinguish. (They're short for Antoinette and Anthony.)

This troper's father is named Kelly.

While This Troper's name, Alison, is pretty obviously feminine, I've had people give me odd looks when my friends introduce me by my nickname of Al.

This troper's name is Rowan. The question is, what gender is the troper?

I'm guessing female but I could be wrong.

I'll guess female too because I know a female Rowan...

Anyone heard of Rowan Atkinson? I'm guessing male. Though it is hard to determine a gender of a name of a (tasteless) fruit...

At my school, there are multiple people with the names Barret and Dakota. Half of them are girls, half are boys.

This Troper attracts Gender Blender Nicknames: at various times, she's been known as Mac, Mickey, Mike, Meesh, Mitch, Mic, Kay, and [=McKay=].

This troper went to school with a female Courtney and a male Courtney.

This troper and her sister are Jesse and Avery, two traditionally masculine names in the US. If I had a dime for every time I've been called "Jessica," I'd be a multi-millionaire.

This female troper is named Avery. It's not a very common name (or it's at least less common than most), and she can count the other Averys she's met on one hand, but they were all guys. Granted, the most recent one had it for a middle name, but the point still stands.

This troper knows a married couple named Lynn and Dawn. If you'd only heard the names, you could be forgiven for getting the genders backwards.

This troper's brother, father, grandfather and great-grandfather all have the same GenderBlenderName: Leslie. It's my great-grandfather's first name and everyone else's middle name. Since it's a traditional name, I've teased my brother that it doesn't matter if he has a girl or boy first, as he could name either Leslie.

This troper didn't even realize that her name (Ashleigh) was once more considered a boy's name until 7th grade, when my best friend started reading "Gone With the Wind." I later discovered that there is an author who spells his name the same way I do, as opposed to the more traditional spelling (Ashleigh Brilliant).

This troper's cousin's father-in-law is named Laverne. Said (female) cousin is named Lorin, which I've never seen anywhere else (and I know a lot of Laurens) and doesn't look very feminine.

This troper's middle name is Mychal. According to my mother, the "y" makes it the feminine spelling, but it was an EmbarrassingMiddleName throughout my childhood. By now, I've gotten over it, and I'm even considering taking it for my pen name, mostly to offset how common my first name is. (By funny coincidence with the above troper's post, it's also Lauren.)

This troper is named Darcy. I'm a girl. It's mostly known as a girl's name, but like with Lesley and such it used to be masculine. I know of only one other female Darcy. It doesn't help that I was named after a male author.

This troper is Nigerian. When you have twins, their names are automatically first born: Taiwo (nicknamed Taye and pronounced tie-yay) and Second born: Kehinde (pronouced kein-de or ken-de), regardless of gender. In our family, apparently most firstborns are girls. Guess when this female troper was born...

This troper has two friends named Courtney. One of them is male, the other is female. They're also boyfriend and girlfriend.

The daycare this troper works at once had a girl named Tyson, which I thought was strictly a boy's name before. She was somewhat of a {{tomboy}}, though.

This troper's middle school principal was a man named Lynn Caldwell.

This Troper knows a few-she knows two people named Chris-although one is Christopher and one is Crystal. Also there was a girl named Nicole, who shortens her name to Nic, and two Stevies-one male and one female, although the male hates being called Stevie and prefers Steve. She also knew a female called Eddie, she is the girlfriend of my female friend, and when she was talking about Eddie I presumed she was a man, and her boyfriend. It was a bit suprising when we finally met.

I had a co-worker at a branch office named "Evelyn." I could never remember what this person's gender is.

This troper technically has this (as she was named after her father) although he has it worse. We're both named Sydney, which was originally a boys name (I think) even if it's more common for girls now. At least he gets to shorten it to Syd. (As a side note, she has met another boy named Sydney, but he went by James, his middle name.)

This Troper knows/knew a guy named Lyn. I told my dad about something Lyn had said in true DeadpanSnarker fashion around Christmas, and the following exchange occurred. #QUOTE#Father: Is she pretty? #QUOTE#Miso: *ten second period of silence* ''She's'' a guy.

This troper likes to go by her initials JC online. Of course, in a subversion, no one ever does call her that and she usually only ever suggests it when she's been a regular on a forum for a while so her gender's usually already known if it isn't obvious in the first place.

This troper's grandparents have long been friends with a couple, Dick, the husband, and Nelson, the wife. They're both well in to their eighties.

This troper once knew a girl named Randel. Guess who's father wanted a boy?

This troper's mother's name was Donal. On top of people mistakenly believing she was male, her name would often get misspelled as "Donald". She recently changed it to something more feminine. (This troper, of course, was given an unambiguously gender-appropriate name.)

This troper's name is Jordan Rose Palen. Considering how I look like a boy, but am really a girl, people who get my gender wrong assume Rose is the GenderBlenderName, when Jordan is.

Everybody thinks this troper is female, based on his first name, Ashley. He has now taken to signing off with "Ashley, who will garrotte you if you think he's female". That hasn't stopped some people.

My father was named Terry at birth, but had his name legally changed because so many people assumed it was the diminutive of Theresa rather than Terrence. It seems to be a family thing, since my uncle's name is Lorie.

Until this troper read TheGreatGatsby, he always thought that "Jordan" was a definitively masculine name.

This troper once knew a married couple...when first introduced to them as (what sounded like) "Joe" and "Carol," I learned to my surprise that ''she'' was "Jo" and ''he'' was "Carroll."

This troper once went to school with a girl named Eugene.

One of this troper's old friends in high school got a sex change after graduation (female to male) and kept their old name (Meredith). His own middle name (Jun) is a sort-of example: it's pronounced somewhat like the English "June" but shorter, but a lot of Americans pronounce them the same way, so I've confused a number of people that way. (In addition to being a proper name itself, Jun is also a diminuitive form of Junko (female) and Jun'suke and Jun'ichirou (male).)

This troper has three roommates with ambiguous/male-sounding names (or at least, nicknames), despite all four of them being female. Which led to her dad's response of "You're living with who!?" It also has it's advantages, such as when a guy is coming onto her, and she can make comments like, "I can't wait to go home and curl up on the couch with Sam."

This lurkers name, Aaron, has been frequently misspelled to either Erin, the female spelling of the name, or this

This troper was given the first name of "Romi" by her very American but unusual-baby-naming parents (pronounced raw-me, not row-me). For most of my life, most people have assumed I was male---the only problem is, when I finally did research on my name, I found out it occurred mostly as a girl's name or nickname in Europe and occasionally as a guy's name in the Middle East---although a friend who reads Akkadian told me it was a girl's name at first there as well. I was quite used to getting mail addressed to Mr. Romi X, too. Then the movie "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" came out, and people stopped looking so surprised at me being female (the mispronunciations still continued, though). I thought I'd have no more trouble for a few years, but then I looked at one of my credit reports...and found they had MY MOTHER listed as MY SPOUSE. This generated a massive squick overload (she died over a decade ago, too---and my father outlived her), though I suppose someone, somewhere can find some level of humor in that.

This troper is named Carrington and recently received a letter from the US government telling this troper to register for selective service. Guess what gender I am.

This female troper goes by Lex a lot of the time, which has led to some confusion in the past. I also have a male friend named Novell.

This male troper is named "Kaya." Granted, there aren't many Kaya's around, but all of the one's I've seen and heard about are ''all'' flippin' female!!

This American troper's younger brother is named Alexander (goes by Alex). However, her mother found the fact that Sasha is a Russian nickname for Alexander hilarious, resulting in the entire neighborhood calling him Sasha when he was younger. It didn't help that he was very cute and feminine as a toddler, and he was usually mistaken for a cute little baby girl. When he got older and much huger, it took on the spin of being a cute little girl's name for a massive stinky pubescent boy.

This video of Shannon's proposal to Jessica. Good luck guessing who is who.

The preschool/kindergarten summer camp this troper works at has a female teacher named Harper.

My friend's brother Daniel is in a long-term relationship with Danielle. Letters to them tend to be addressed to "The Dans."

I discovered a girl named Evan on Facebook.

I recently met a couple with a daughter named Connor.

This troper recently discovered that his name, Tanner, has belonged to at least one female.

This troper used to go to school with a girl named Jensen.

I know a guy named Erin, a guy and a girl named Jordan, and a guy named Tony, but spelled Toni.

Try being a girl, called Billie. People don't seem to get that it is the femimine version of "Billy."

My first name is Kelsey, which, aside from Kelsey Grammer, is rarely heard of as a male name despite being supposedly gender-neutral. However, my last name is a common male first name, and I can't tell you how many substitutes I had in school read it backwards and assumed I was male. I've even gotten marked absent because they saw a girl sitting in what they assumed to be a male's assigned seat. Throw in a school strict against skipping class, parents who are strict about everything, and a tendency to get frazzled when questioned even when I'm in the right, and...well, high school wasn't exactly fun, to say the least.

This troper has several friends named Melissa, one friend named Jemel and another named Rahmel. When all insist on the nickname 'Mel', confusion ensues.

this troper has a thankfully feminine name, but her parents are ... Robin( often a girls name) and Patrice ( a guy's name in france).

This tropette knows a woman named George. Probably short for Georgia, but still.

This troper has a little brother named Elie. For the first few years of his life, people insisted that either A) he was a girl, B) it was short for "Elliot" or something else like it (no, it is not), or C) that we were ''spelling his name wrong'' (for "Eli"). No, I think that my parents would know how to spell his name! ''Ellie'' is the girl name, people! ''Elie'' is a boy. Think Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust survivor and author of the book ''Night''.

This female troper's name is Dana, and confusion over my name also comes with racial confusion for some reason.

I, or rather, MR. Dana, was offered a minority scholarship due to a lack of African-American males in college. (I didn't take it.)

Once when I was working, someone called my name. I responded as well as two customers (one male, one female, both White).

My online handle used to be daidai (from the first part of my name, pronounced "day-day"), until someone told me it was Chinese for "little brother".

This troper's friend is a guy whose name is Kelsey. Once during a test break, some teacher said that a ''girl'' named Kelsey forgot to fill in or hand in something. Guess who it was?

When her parents were deciding what to name this troper, her mom suggested Ashley as a middle name. Now, Ashley started out as a masculine name, but sometime in the recent past it became commonly used as a girl's name - hence why my mom suggested it. Her dad apparently hadn't gotten the memo though, and said that the only Ashley he knew was Ashley Wilkes and therefore no way was he naming his daughter that. Long story short, this troper's middle name: Ashley. (Well, along with two others, but this isn't OverlyLongName...)

This Troper's name is Cameron. In Scotland, his home country, it's a male's name but ever since Cameron Diaz came along, the number of girls with this name is increasing...

I have a younger sibling named Cody. Shortly after Cody's 18th birthday, our family received a letter from the government requesting that Cody sign up for Selective Service. Along with our mother, Cody sent a strongly-worded reply letter informing them that she was female, and was therefore under no obligation to do any such thing. To this day, we still wonder why the government knew her address and birthday, but not her gender.

This Troper has a class mate called Joy, who's male (granted, he's from South America). I also have a friend called Victor, but I call him Vic. Her foreign penpal was surprised when I mentioned that Vic is a boy.

This troper is a transman who has decided to keep his birth-name. Thus, he's a boy named Shayla; however he usually goes by his nickname which is masculine.

This troper's name is Nicolas. This is not the blendy part; I am actually a guy. The problem is my nickname. Nicki is a perfectly respectable nickname for Nicolas ''in France''. Here? People call me Nicole. Having a GBN is a bit of a problem when you're gay. Even better, my boyfriend is known by ''everyone'' as Angel. People assume we're both girls.

This troper knew of a married couple named Michel and Michelle.

When my older sister, Kyle started getting letters from colleges, he number one method of weeding them out was to instantly chuck any that addressed her as "Mr."

My first name is commonly abbreviated to Sam (it even showed as such for all my IDs up to high school). Usually, it's a ForegoneConclusion that I'm male, as either that or my full first name show up on all my parcels. But one college organization once mailed me a package with the label "Samantha." I showed to to them in person. They were mortified. After this (and a set of other events that almost made me miss a whole semester's worth of college), I made it a point to deal with them as little as possible.

Also, I knew two female Joeys. According to one, people sometimes got her gender wrong when she was younger.

You'd think being a girl named Erin would be simple, since the traditional boy spelling is Aaron. But on paper, I've been confused for a boy. For example, while doing community sports as a child, I was almost put on an all-boys soccer team. Then I showed up in person and the organizers quickly realized their mistake. (Despite the fact that my sign up form clearly had my gender marked as female. I presume they didn't look past the name). Also, my poor dad earned his middle name from a long-dead uncle. An uncle named Hilary.

This troper is named Bobby, yet literally ''every''one who isn't a family member (and even some who are) insists on spelling it Bobb''ie''. I can't be more obviously male, people; why do you still do this?

Also, I used to know a guy named Erin.

There's a Seattle actress named Cayman Ilika (Jacobs). She also has a brother named Cassidy.

This troper is named Rian. Now she writes her name as Rianne, to avoid confusion, but some people still seem to think it's supposed to be Ryan. She is a very effective Bifauxnen. Supply teachers are regularly confused by her, especially those who have pronunciation problems.

This troper follows the Filipino convention of a very long given name and taking my mother's maiden name as a middle name. So, I have, by Western standards, multiple middle names. One of them happens to be "Maria." My still-living grandpa once had that middle name, but he had it changed because his parents changed their minds and never told him. EmbarrassingMiddleName indeed.

This troper knows a boy named Addison. Which I found particularly weird, because around the time I met him, I was writing a fanfiction story with a female OC named Addison.

This male troper's middle name is Meredith, which is very much a female name in the USA. My mother got tired of me complaining, and showed me the original Welsh meaning, which is either "Great Lord" or "King of the Sea". Being a fan of Pokemon, my middle name on Facebook is "Seaking".