It is not my endeavor to "prove you wrong", or anyone else for that matter - but I am a male
Barbra. The trend I reference occurred in the US, yet I only know of this through Name Data, which I've only recently thought to review. I also happened to find a post from a lady on "Baby Names Hub" within the last few months under the name
Barbara (Negative Comments) who states "When I was a young woman and was in hospital to born my first daughter I met a man with the name
Barbara. He was a husband to one of women who lied with me. I neve supposed that my name is unisex before that."
I believe the poster claims to be Polish but living in the UK, so location or country of birth for the Husband named
Barbara could potentially be anywhere.
Mistakes will always occur, though occasionally, but will generally be exceptions. I will state that even as a male
Barbra, I've never met another male
Barbara (at any spelling) or with a name that so emphatically "implies female", though I think '
Linda' and '
Susan' "imply female" more strongly or better than my own.