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I grew up believing - on the evidence of the sisters of two friends - that Lindsey was the female version and Lindsay the male. And I still instinctively expect that to happen, though it seldom does; also, I prefer the look of Lindsay for either. And I like it a lot: with Lyndall, the best of the Lin- names.
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That spelling difference related to gender used to be the way people in the UK thought about the name. But it's never applied in the United States -- our two most famous male Lindseys, Graham and Buckingham, both use the "e", while our two most famous female Lindsays, Wagner and Lohan, both use the "a"!
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I suspect that the distinction is on its way out, here in South Africa. We were never 'little England' in the way that New Zealand and parts of Canada were, but we only got TV in about 1975, so American influence was limited to cinema and Elvis etc on the hit parade! Now, there's immense amounts of American soapies, series, made-for-TV stuff that probably wouldn't survive in a cinema ... and it's showing in our naming habits, though since we don't have access to annual naming records, it's hard to quantify.
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