Message: "Thanks for the new April 23 2024 Update but I have a problem..."

Thanks for the new April 23 2024 Update but I have a problem...

by LeoBeyene

4/28/2024, 4:32 AM

I appreciate your effort to update the site but I have a problem...

The name Ayana has just been submitted in the Behind the Name database in the newest April update as a Masculine Ethiopian name...

Why... just why on earth is Ayana a Masculine Ethiopian name in this site? In the very least Ayana should be an Ethiopian Feminine name or even a Unisex name for that matter.
I've done some light research and nothing... just very little leads to Ayana being a Masculine Ethiopian name...
https://amharicteacher.com/name/english/%E1%8A%A0%E1%8B%AB%E1%8A%93
https://www.behindthename.com/names/history.php?name=ayana-1
https://forebears.io/forenames/ayana

The closest thing I can find to Ayana being a Masculine Ethiopian name is this...
https://web.archive.org/web/20221017022930/https://ethiopia.limbo13.com/index.php/ethiopian_names/ethiopian_names_a

https://www.behindthename.com/name/ayana-1
https://www.behindthename.com/name/ayana/submitted?id=349630
https://www.behindthename.com/name/ayana/submitted?id=239581

My name is Leo but I'm NOT a Leo!

This message was edited 4/28/2024, 4:33 AM

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- Mike C +2

4/28/2024, 2:21 PM

Doing a Linkedin search for the first name Ayana in Ethiopia, and looking through the first 10 pages of results, I only found one bearer that was identifiably female. The rest (50+) were male.

This message was edited 4/28/2024, 2:31 PM

- LeoBeyene +1

4/29/2024, 8:49 AM

Okay... I see where you are going with this... Thanks for letting me know.

Still I say your approach to finding out the gender of the name is...interesting.

- Mike C

4/29/2024, 2:12 PM

Yes, it's best to look for real world bearers when sites such as forebears can seemingly be inaccurate.

- clevelandkentevans

4/28/2024, 6:52 AM

Although I would agree that this should perhaps be marked "unisex" instead of just "Masculine", one can certainly find examples on the Web of Ethiopian men named Ayana:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayana-zewdie-workneh-bba12a170/?originalSubdomain=hk

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TF3Q8igAAAAJ&hl=en

And the great majority of instances of Ayana in Ethiopia on Google seem to be of its use as a surname, not a given name.

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