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Well, Whitney's falling fast for girls (probably because of the wreckage of Whitney Houston?), so I wouldn't say it's completely unusable for a boy. On the other hand, there are a lot of female Whitneys out there, and I think most people would assume "girl" when they saw/heard it, so I can't imagine a boy being happy about having the name either.

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Whit is really cute as a nn, but I don't like it on its own. I guess the teasing potential is a little too high for me: halfwit, witless, and so on. I'd rather have a longer name to fall back on, like Whitley, Whitman, or Whitaker. A woman whose blog I used to read had a baby Whitaker, nn Whit, and it was adorable.