The strange thing about names is that you can get different names that sound the same and even look the same, but they've got there by different ways.

So you can get someone called Anne, and it's an anglicisation of Áine, and another person called Anne, as an anglicisation of the name that's descended from the biblical one, Hannah or Anna or whatever - which Áine has nothing to do with in its roots or its meaning.

Am I unjust in feeling that it is in a way bad manners to give a male name to a female baby? I mean one where it hasn't already become customary to use it in that way.