I've sometimes wondered the same as well, but I'm under the impression it's a very old name, which might maybe explain it. I guess there are always exceptions, like in Italian the general rule is that male names end in -o and female names in -a, however
Nicola,
Andrea and
Luca are all boys' names.
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