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HelpIt IS most definitely a female name
in reply to a message by RoxStar
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
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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