Neutral names starting with C: Difference between revisions

'''Courtney'''. English. Neutral or feminine. From the surname Courtney. Meaning "Short nose" in French, or "Member of the court" in English. Variants: '''Cortney''', '''Kortney''', and '''Kortney'''.<ref>https://www.behindthename.com/name/courtney [https://web.archive.org/web/20230322160529/https://www.behindthename.com/name/courtney Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="CharlesBook" /> US SSA data shows about 9,839 people with the given name Cortney, used as a feminine name 85% of the time, so it is more neutral,<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/C/CO/CORTNEY/index.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20170618174206/http://www.mynamestats.com:80/First-Names/C/CO/CORTNEY/index.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> whereas there are 147,406 people named Courtney, feminine 92% of the time, so it is not so neutral.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/C/CO/COURTNEY/index.html [https://web.archive.org/web/20210303074815/https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/C/CO/COURTNEY/index.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Keywords: feminine inclined, two syllables, very common. Notable people with this name include genderfluid and genderqueer Australian drag queen [[Courtney Act]].<ref name="cour_Abou">{{Cite web |title=About |author=Courtney Act |work= |date= |access-date=3 April 2020 |url= https://courtneyact.tumblr.com/about|quote=She’s a Prius driving, vegan, pansexual, polyamorous, genderqueer, hippy child|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608004736/https://courtneyact.tumblr.com/about|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

'''Coty'''. English. A variant of the neutral or masculine name Cody, from the Irish surname Cody, meaning "Helper," or "Descendant of a helpful or cheerful person."<ref>https://www.behindthename.com/name/coty [https://web.archive.org/web/20230207025147/https://www.behindthename.com/name/coty Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>https://www.behindthename.com/name/cody [https://web.archive.org/web/20230213074956/https://www.behindthename.com/name/cody Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> US SSA data shows about 2,011 people with this given name, used as a masculine name 86% of the time.<ref>https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/C/CO/COTY/index.html</ref> Keywords: two syllables, uncommon.

'''Creature'''. English. Meaning "A living being" in English. Christening is a ritual of naming and baptizing (washing) an infant, which some Christian denominations believe is necessary to save the soul. It used to be that in England, when a family feared that a pregnancy might end in a stillbirth, such as if a pregnant person fell gravely ill, then the people had a ritual for christening the child ''before'' birth. The English believed that they could not assign a gender to a child ''before'' birth, when its sex was not yet known. For this reason, the people would give the unborn one of these gender-neutral given names: '''Chylde-of-God''', Creature, '''Creatura''', or '''Vitalis''' (Latin, "life-giving"). All these names represent the hope for a baby who would survive. If they survived, then the law required them to keep these names. When marriage records from that era show grown men and women with these names, historians know this is the reason why. This naming tradition goes as far back as the 1200s. The religious and legal changes that came with the Protestant Reformation stopped the practice of christening the unborn, and so these names completely fell out of use after 1680.<ref>Charles W. Bardsley, ''Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature.'' New York: R. Worthington, 1880. Page 132-133. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Curiosities_of_Puritan_Nomenclature/QVwvAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=neutral</ref> Keywords: Catholic, Christian, birth, Elizabethan era, gothic, life, medieval, renaissance era, three syllables, tragic, Tudor period, two syllables.