Gender Blender Name/Playing With

Basic Trope: A person's name contradicts his/her gender.

• Straight: A woman gives birth to a baby girl. The baby is named "Bob".
• Exaggerated: A woman gives birth to a baby girl, and gives the baby the manliest name on Earth.
• Downplayed: The baby has a Tomboyish Name or a unisex one.
• Justified: Bob's father wanted the baby to have a boy's name, no matter what.
• Inverted: The baby is given an impossibly girly name.
• Subverted: After trying to name the baby "Bob", the mother named her "Bella" instead.
• Double Subverted: They then went back to conclusions, and named the baby, "Bob".
• Parodied: The most womanly woman on Earth has the manliest name possible.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: A woman gives birth to a baby girl. The baby is named, "Alice".
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "WHAT!? They named the baby girl 'Bob'!?"
• Invoked: The woman specifically names her daughter Bob because she wants the child to be mistaken for a boy.
• Exploited: Bob uses her Gender Blender Name to successfully pull off Samus Is a Girl.
• Defied: A woman is about to give birth, but neither her nor her husband want to name the baby girl a boy's name.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: "Ha ha. A baby on TV is named "Bob". And it's a girl. Ha ha."

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