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HelpWhat makes a name gender neutral?
I've often wondered what makes a name gender-neutral. Is it just arbitrary or based on statistics? I clipped this information from www.thebump.com.
"According to the team at Names.org, if US Census Bureau and Social Security Administration data shows a name is assigned to a particular gender 95 percent of the time or more, it is not considered gender neutral. But if, like the name Leslie, that percentage dips below 95 percent (in 2016, 94.7 percent of babies named Leslie were female), Names.org considers it gender neutral. With that in mind, you might expect a lot of names to be gender-neutral. But only 6 percent of them are."
Do you think this percentage is reasonable, too high, too low?
"According to the team at Names.org, if US Census Bureau and Social Security Administration data shows a name is assigned to a particular gender 95 percent of the time or more, it is not considered gender neutral. But if, like the name Leslie, that percentage dips below 95 percent (in 2016, 94.7 percent of babies named Leslie were female), Names.org considers it gender neutral. With that in mind, you might expect a lot of names to be gender-neutral. But only 6 percent of them are."
Do you think this percentage is reasonable, too high, too low?
