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I have a 28-yr old dd named Robin Kate; she's always loved her name. Never a problem in the US, but now a little awkward in Switzerland, where she's lived for a decade: There it's usually a male name, usually a Brit. But people adjust quite readily once they get to know her. For some reason, she's a bit like a robin--confident and burbly. I don't know if I would choose the name again, had I the chance to name another daughter. My tastes have changed, but I still appreciate unisex names and nature names, so who knows?

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When she was young, there was another girl in her elementary school named Robin Gale--also quite unisex. And when she was briefly in college in the US, there were 3 other girls with this name in her freshman class of @500.