Unisex Names for Babies Born in Pennsylvania 1990-2010
Unisex Names for Babies Born in Pennsylvania 1990-2010
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DOI：
10.1179/0027773813z.00000000060
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发表时间：
2014-03-01
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
Harper, Aylene S.
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作者：
Barry, Herbert, III;Harper, Aylene S.
大多数名字都是专门为女性或男性而流行的。少数人的名字是男女通用的，其定义是在同一年同一人口中男女通用的频率很高。宾夕法尼亚州1990年、1995年、2000年、2005年和2010年出生婴儿的名字频率提供了婴儿中性名字的信息。将白色母亲的孩子与黑人母亲的孩子进行比较。从1990年到2010年，男女通用的名字分为两种性别偏好或一致性。变化通常是从男性占少数到女性占多数。一致性通常是男性的偏好。因此，女性比男性更经常被赋予一个在异性中更受欢迎的名字。在宾夕法尼亚州，名字的多样性促成了中性名字的出现。
Most first names are exclusively popular for females or males. A minority of first names are unisex, defined as being given with substantial frequency to both genders in the same population in the same year. First-name frequencies for births in Pennsylvania in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 provided information on babies given unisex names. Children of a White mother were compared with children of a Black mother. The unisex names were divided into two types of gender preference or consistency, from 1990 to 2010. Change usually was from a small majority of males to a large majority of females. Consistency generally was a preference for males. Females more often than males therefore were given a name that was consistently more popular for the opposite gender. Great diversity of names given in Pennsylvania contributed to the occurrence of unisex names.