I have never known it to be a man's name
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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.
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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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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
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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.
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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?