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River feels better for me on a boy because of the sound of the word, but I can see it unisex. It's actually kind of odd because, even though English nouns aren't gendered, culturally, bodies of water, boats, cities, musical instruments etc. get referred to as she and her, so I probably *should* feel River as more feminine, but I don't. I think storms always used to be given female names as well, not sure on that. I do remember, when taking a Spanish class years back, thinking it counter-intuitive that the word for shirt, camisa, was feminine while the word for dress, vestido, was masculine.