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[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Today I encountered a new male-name-used-as-a-female-name:

Murphy.

The girl was probably around 16 years old.

I'm not too sure about this one...what are your thoughts?

Comments

[coquine.livejournal.com]

Her parents were Murphy Brown fans?

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Wow how could I forget about that show?! I fail. :) I still don't think I like it, though.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

me too. Or three. Or four or something.
Yeah

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Hahaha!

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

this!

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I played hockey with a female named Murphy. Her mom was named Cinnamon.

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

That's fierce. I kind of love it.

[contagia.livejournal.com]

I actually think it's pretty cute!

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I think it's way too masculine.

[snotty.livejournal.com]

This.

[iftherainstops.livejournal.com]

I kind of like it. Not thrilled with it, but it's okay I think

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Everyone I've ever met with the last name Murphy goes by Murphy so it makes sense to me that it be a first name.

[jessicann00.livejournal.com]

I usually really like boy names as girl names, but Murphy isn't working for me.

[coffeecup37.livejournal.com]

Don't like myself, but I do think it's rare enough as a male name (at least in my part of the world/generation) that I could see it making the transition to excepted unisex.

[frost.livejournal.com]

I've always found this name really ugly. It's definitely worse on a girl.

[inmeggsyoutrust.livejournal.com]

I have a funny story about this name... My moms co-worker was pregnant but hadn't found out the sex of the baby yet and all the ladies at her job were asking if this girl had chosen names yet. She said "Lily Love if it's a girl and Liam or Murphy if its a boy"

Everyone groaned and my mom, as the rabble-rouser, said "Murphy is a terrible name, to me, murphy sounds like something bad, like a pile of crap! You only have one boys name, that's Liam."

This girl and everyone else laughed and now on their unit whenever they have a patient who needs to be cleaned because of feces they call it a "Murphy", not in front of patients or anything but just to themselves.

The girl had a baby girl yesterday.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Lol! It does sound like something bad! XP
For me, Murphy has always made me think of an ugly, murky brown (I tend to stick colours to to words/names)... =/

[turtleohs.livejournal.com]

I don't like it at all for a boy OR a girl!

[pinkysmith.livejournal.com]

i hope that at the very least it was her mother's maiden name or some other family name.

[arrien.livejournal.com]

that's the name of my grandma's stupid poodle. sort of ruins the name for me.