I have never known it to be a man's name
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edbevrr — 11 years ago(April 19, 2014 04:00 AM)
My name is Beverly, I am a female. Done some research on the history of the name. It originated as a Boys name (English} It means Beaver, really I swear!
There is various spellings, Beverley, Beverlee ect. Now you now. Arnt you Glad!!! -
toto24522 — 11 years ago(October 19, 2014 08:40 PM)
These actresses might disagree:
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tmaj48 — 11 years ago(May 22, 2014 07:59 PM)
Well, I assumed Tracy Letts, who wrote the play on which this was based and
who wrote the screenplay, was a woman, which was why the women's roles were so
intense and the male roles much less so. I figured only a woman would create such
vicious female characters, and I was very much surprised to watch the DVD extras
and discover "Tracy" was a guy.
Beverly is one of those unisex names that apparently originated as a boy's name,
but gradually became almost exclusively female over the past century or so. Hillary, Evelyn, Vivian, and Meredith are other examples of this. One theory about
the name Beverly is that it fell out of favor around the turn of the century due
to a best-selling novel of that era,
Beverly of Graustark
, in which the title character was female.
Males with unisex names often turn up in the arts (authors Hillary and Evelyn Waugh, composer Meredith Wilson), so maybe the character in the film changed his
name to Beverly to match his career as a poet.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
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KMPINTJ — 11 years ago(May 23, 2014 11:18 AM)
Wow, I, too, thought Tracy was a woman!
FYI Beverly is more common as a man's name in England than a woman's."Males with unisex names turn up in the Arts"?????
Um, the ones you've HEARD of havethat's why you've heard of them. Confirmation Bias at work! -
jav4927 — 11 years ago(October 30, 2014 04:02 PM)
I watched Killer Joe coincidentally just the day before this movie and was quite shocked to think that a woman could write a movie that harsh and horrendous especially towards some of the female characters. So was quite relieved to see that Tracey was actually a man.
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lisajohn-4 — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 10:47 PM)
And then there is Carroll O'Conner. Lot's of men's names, especially of English origin, that many decades later were given to women too. This became so common and male usage declined to the point that some folks think of some names as exclusively female. Google is your friend.
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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.
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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! -
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
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