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It used to be that in the UK there was a gender spelling difference for Lindsey, as with Francis/Frances, where Lindsay was considered masculine and Lindsey feminine, but that never developed in the USA. Actually the distinction was even stronger in the UK for Leslie vs. Lesley, where the former was considered masculine and the latter feminine. Again, that never was the case in the USA, where the spelling Leslie was used for girls from the time the name became popular for them.

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Ashley stayed predominantly masculine in the UK and Australia for decades after it had become almost exclusively feminine in the USA.