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I agree with the poster that all the girls named Augustina and Augustine would have been called August at some point as a nickname so it could as well have been used on girls. We just don't know.
How do you think usage changed over time? Because at some point a rather adventurous person decided to use a name that was used on boys until that point for a girl or the other way around. Maybe even one that had a long historical use. So why shouldn't I use August on a girl? Maybe in 40 years there'll be several little girls named August around just as there a now heaps of male Christians.
You don't care about how names were used back then because you just care about their usage NOW? Or do you mean since popularity charts exists? Sorry but that's a really weak argument. August is hardly common nowadays so if I name a girl August as some other people have done (Garth Brooks, for example) and other people who see it as feminine it might get a bit more common for girls and that will be its common use. Will you prefer it for a girl then? Do you prefer Ashley, Lindsey, Whitney, Morgan etc etc for girls just because they're in common use?
Well, I'm from a country where most girls names end in A so yes they sound unisex to me, especially Ezra. I never said that I consider an -ah sound feminine, by the way. Feminine would be something like -ina (at the end of a name) or -issa.
How do you think usage changed over time? Because at some point a rather adventurous person decided to use a name that was used on boys until that point for a girl or the other way around. Maybe even one that had a long historical use. So why shouldn't I use August on a girl? Maybe in 40 years there'll be several little girls named August around just as there a now heaps of male Christians.
You don't care about how names were used back then because you just care about their usage NOW? Or do you mean since popularity charts exists? Sorry but that's a really weak argument. August is hardly common nowadays so if I name a girl August as some other people have done (Garth Brooks, for example) and other people who see it as feminine it might get a bit more common for girls and that will be its common use. Will you prefer it for a girl then? Do you prefer Ashley, Lindsey, Whitney, Morgan etc etc for girls just because they're in common use?
Well, I'm from a country where most girls names end in A so yes they sound unisex to me, especially Ezra. I never said that I consider an -ah sound feminine, by the way. Feminine would be something like -ina (at the end of a name) or -issa.
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