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Because it is legal in English speaking countries to give a child any name you want, and because sexism leads to parents being more willing to give "boy's names" to girls than vice versa, there probably isn't any common male name which hasn't occasionally been given to a girl.

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I have seen examples of women named Kevin and James. I don't recall ever having run across a woman named David or John yet (although the British woman author Radclyffe Hall was called "John" as a nickname.)

Those names are masculine names, but it has happened that a female has been named James for example. (whether or not this makes James a unisex name is debatable)