I thought Beverley was a girls name

[fgadmin]

ec1979 — 11 years ago(October 19, 2014 03:17 PM)

Beverly is originally a sir name, then was a boy's name, and is now mostly a girl's name. This is a common pattern for many girl's names: Tracy, Stacy, Ashley, Evelyn, etc all originated as sir names, which became popular boy's names. WASPs often give their boys family names as a way to pass on blue blood names, historically.

[fgadmin]

moosefeathers — 11 years ago(November 10, 2014 11:59 AM)

Yes, it's a man's name. As is Marion. Jaime. and on and on. some names are ambiguous.
Swing away, Merrill.Merrill, swing away

[fgadmin]

DanaShelbyChancey — 11 years ago(November 14, 2014 08:19 AM)

Now, it is a woman's name, but in the past it was just a name.
Families who felt names were very important and named kids a certain way, may have given a surname as a child's first name. So the boy was named Beverly, which was perhaps his mother's maiden name.
Jessica Simpson named her daughter Maxwell!

[fgadmin]

Redart27 — 11 years ago(November 15, 2014 11:36 AM)

There are a lot famous men with ambiguous names..
Terry Bradshaw
Tracy Morgan
Dana Carvy
Rosey Greer
Leslie Nielson
Stacy Keach
Lindsey Buckingham
Jackie Gleason
Jamie Fox
(Fictional) Ashley Wilkes
G - A - F - (low)F - C

[fgadmin]

raquelprov — 11 years ago(November 20, 2014 09:59 AM)

"I have never known it to be a man's name"
You should get out more.

[fgadmin]

moviegeek1 — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 05:17 AM)

Yep, originally a boy's name. "Whitney" was also originally a boy's name too. Nowadays, you'd be hard-pressed to find a man named Whitney.
Sister, when I've raised hell, you'll know it!

[fgadmin]

retro2classy — 11 years ago(January 01, 2015 12:24 AM)

Beverley Randolph the eighth Governor of Virginia.
Beverly Briley mayor of Nashville
Heck, I even know a couple of guys named Lavern

[fgadmin]

retro2classy — 11 years ago(January 01, 2015 12:27 AM)

Beverley Randolph the eighth Governor of Virginia.
Beverly Briley mayor of Nashville
Heck, I even know a couple of guys named Lavern

[fgadmin]

DivineRED — 11 years ago(January 04, 2015 03:59 PM)

Shirley used to be a man's name too

[fgadmin]

jharmon64 — 11 years ago(January 25, 2015 03:28 PM)

Another stupid point of this film.
No need to have a woman's name for a guy here, just confuses some folks.

[fgadmin]

moosefeathers — 10 years ago(April 10, 2015 10:02 AM)

Another stupid point of this film.
No need to have a woman's name for a guy here, just confuses some folks.
Maybe it's the people that are stupid and ignorant, not
the point
.
Swing away, Merrill.Merrill, swing away

[fgadmin]

andyd-1 — 11 years ago(February 24, 2015 01:36 AM)

There's male Beverly in Dead Ringers and another in GTA 5 video game

[fgadmin]

jaynekranc — 11 years ago(March 29, 2015 04:19 PM)

There's lots of names like that. Dana, Keegan, Alex, Chrisit's annoying to me, too. I intensely dislike unisex names.

[fgadmin]

Newt73 — 10 years ago(May 19, 2015 01:43 PM)

Most names that aren't flowery and frilly started out as boys names. Karen, Aaron/Erin, Shannon, Carey, Casey, Jean, Jessie, Mackenzie, etc. In my opinion it doesn't matter. Names are all made up at some point. They don't have genitals they're just sounds we make up.

[fgadmin]

verizonowner88 — 10 years ago(June 08, 2015 05:42 PM)

I have an uncle named Lavern, John Wayne's real name was Marion. I had a friend named Kim (male) when I was a kid. Heck, if you can name your kid North, Blue, River or Leif then what's wrong with Beverly for a boy?