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Re: Ashley for a boy!
by Chrisell
9/19/2004, 6:42 PM
in reply to a message by hannah
Ashley isn't originally a boys' name - it's a unisex name drawn from an Old English surname. Except for in 1900-1909 (584th) and in 1940-1959 (884th-810th) Ashley has been vastly more popular for girls than for boys. :-)see:
http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?terms=ashley&popterm=&gender=both&extra=pAnyway . . . I don't like Ashley at all but I hate it less on a boy than I do on a girl.
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- Kelly R. (Kelly716)   +2
9/19/2004, 6:47 PM
HoweverAshley was the name of a male character in Gone With the Wind, which was a story written in the 1930s during the Depression in America, and was made into a movie a couple of years later. So there is male precedence with this name.
If you're not American, you may have not heard of this story, though.
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- Chrisell
9/19/2004, 7:52 PM
That's not relevant . . .. . . of course I've heard of Gone With the Wind, but the fact that Ashley was used as a male character's name in that book doesn't change what I said: Ashley is a unisex name which has always been more popular for girls.

This message was edited 9/19/2004, 7:53 PM

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- Ceara Brede
9/19/2004, 7:31 PM
it's one of my fave movies ....... though that's not why I like the name. :)
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