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[americandiva.livejournal.com]

Imagine you met someone named Rory.



Does that name belong to a girl or boy?

Comments

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

i think of Rory Gilmore, so girl.

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

Female and it's short for Aurora.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Boy, for sure. The only Rory I know is this manly, muscular guy, but I think even if I didn't know him, it would still seem like a very male name.

[uppity-heathen.livejournal.com]

I think either but for some reason both the boy and girl i picture have dark hair.

[calixbat.livejournal.com]

I know to female Rorys so I have to say girl.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

I'd assume it was a boy - but I prefer the name on a girl.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Its completely unisex to me.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Boy. I have only heard this being suggested for girls recently and I think it sounds ridiculous! It's such a masculine name...it'd be like calling your daughter John or something.

[illy-borgia.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite characters of ALL TIME is named Rory and he´s a boy... well his full name is Rordan Brody and everyone calls him Rory. Everyone sees it as a girl´s name and his girlfriend is named Damien (another guilty pleasure of mine for a girl...)

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure "Rory" is also used as a form of Jr.

For instance, Damien Lucifer Satan, Sr would name his son Damien Lucifer Satan, Jr and Jr would go by Rory.

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

Boy.

[lovelylittle.livejournal.com]

The first time I ever heard it was on Gilmore Girls so now I automatically associate it with a girl.

[murderprotocol.livejournal.com]

Boy. The first time I heard it was on a TV show long before Gilmore Girls and the character was a boy. Plus I think it's quite masculine.

[babyjess8.livejournal.com]

BOY

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Either or, prefer it on a girl. To me it's more of a nickname, and what boy's name would it be a nickname for?

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Girl, because the only Rory I ever met was a girl.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I'd think of a boy (because of knowing it's a boy's name), but would think he has a girl's name. To me, it's a nickname for Aurora.

[tammihayne.livejournal.com]

I automatically think boy and I do believe it means red haired.
That being said I adore it and the suggestion of it being short for Aurora - I really like!

[inmeggsyoutrust.livejournal.com]

i imagine a girl, but i know a skinny dude named rory.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I've known two Rories, both male, so I think of it as a boy's name, but as a very feminine boy's name.

[amyames.livejournal.com]

Girl. Gilmore girls did it for me.

[aaww-my-bees.livejournal.com]

I know a guy named Rory.

[yourcrowbar.livejournal.com]

a girl

[istytehcrawk.livejournal.com]

Guy, because it's my uncle's name.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

It's one name that I think is completely unisex.

[sxylilwitch.livejournal.com]

I think girl, because I ALMOST named my daughter Rory. I'm planning on using it if #2 is a girl :D But it's definitely unisex. There's a male actor Rory Cochran (Lucas in Empire Records, Speed in CSI Miami).

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

It's not usually short for anything, although I once knew a Roderick who went by Rory. It's a full name in itself. Is it really rare in the US or something? I'm surprised by how many people seem to think it's a girls' name/nickname. It's a fairly traditional, if slightly posh, name for men in the UK.

[applesnpairs.livejournal.com]

BOY!!

[ollivander.livejournal.com]

girl

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

I may have heard it before, but I associate it so much with Gilmore Girls (ick) now that it's hard to see it as anything else and I honestly can't remember if I heard it one men before that show.

No, it was not a common name here, but is becoming more so.

[jintana.livejournal.com]

Girl came to mind first.

[tunknut.livejournal.com]

Boy, although I don't mind it on girls. I've known two male Rorys and no female Rorys though so it's more masculine to me (this is in the US by the way).

[http://users.livejournal.com/-----citylight/]

I picture my dog - and he is a boy.

[pinska.livejournal.com]

A boy, because I grew up with a Rory who was a boy.