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HelpCato is not a unisex name ...
in reply to a message by kjk
And never was. It's a classical Roman male name, and hardly ever used even for a male, and never used for a female.
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Love the energy. So confident. So wrong.
Never said it was unisex.
Never asked about any of this.
Humility is a virtue.
Never said it was unisex.
Never asked about any of this.
Humility is a virtue.
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It IS most definitely a female name
If you just look up Cato here you will find it.
The Dutch institution of names lists it being used as far back as they started keeping track (1880). I'd say a name that has been used frequently for women for well over 140 years is a female name.
The only way you are right is that the classical Roman Cato isn't used for girls and the Catharina diminutive Cato isn't used for boys, and thus, arguably, it isn't unisex in the strictest definition.
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https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Cato
If you just look up Cato here you will find it.
The Dutch institution of names lists it being used as far back as they started keeping track (1880). I'd say a name that has been used frequently for women for well over 140 years is a female name.
The only way you are right is that the classical Roman Cato isn't used for girls and the Catharina diminutive Cato isn't used for boys, and thus, arguably, it isn't unisex in the strictest definition.
Source
https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Cato
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I have seen, in some older novel or other, Cato used as a nickname for Catherine (a la Caro for Caroline), so although it's extremely rare, I don't think it's completely unknown.
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There was a girl named Katie in elementary school; a couple of her friends called her Kato/Kayto for fun, but to me that's not even really a nn the way Kate/Katie/Kitty would be. It's more like on the level of back in the early nineties when people got called Stevo and Jenny-o. (Come to think of it, Kayto called one girl, Amy, Aymo.)
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