Name difference

[nq:1]the name 'louise' has a guy's version and a girl's version but sound similar. Which one is guys' and which one is girls'? I'm also confused on 'Frances'. Which is a guy's name and which is a girl's name?[/nq]
Louis is a man's name and Louise is a womans name.

Louis can be pronouced as either lew ee or lew is. Louise is lew eez

Francis is male version and Frances the fem

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[nq:1]the name 'louise' has a guy's version and a girl's version but sound similar. Which one is guys' and which one is girls'?[/nq]
Louis (no e on the end) is the masculine form. It is, at lest in the US, pronounced either "Loo-iss" or "Loo-ee" depending ion the preference of the person. There is also "Lewis", a masculine name, pronounced "Loo-iss"

"Louise" (with

The one that I run into the most is "Chris". Spelled that way, it's usually male. Spelled "Kris" it's usually female. Told to contact someone by that name, though, you don't know which way it's spelled.

Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

[nq:1]The one that I run into the most is "Chris". Spelled that way, it's usually male. Spelled "Kris" it's usually female. Told to contact someone by that name, though, you don't know which way it's spelled.[/nq]
How cutting!

Ray
UK

[nq:1]The one that I run into the most is "Chris". Spelled that way, it's usually male. Spelled "Kris" it's usually female. Told to contact someone by that name, though, you don't know which way it's spelled. Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida[/nq]
Tell that to Kris Kristofferson or my friend Christine.

[nq:1]The one that I run into the most is "Chris". Spelled that way, it's usually male. Spelled "Kris" it's usually female. Told to contact someone by that name, though, you don't know which way it's spelled.[/nq]
What about "Lesley" and "Leslie"? Are both equally female and male?

[nq:1]Francis is male version and Frances the female. both are pronounced the same[/nq]
Not in my family they aren't. If you pronounced my mother as "Fransis" rather than "Frahnsus", the temperature dropped about ten degrees, and you got "Do I look* like a *boy?" in her best Lady Bracknell voice.

Andy Walker
Nottingham

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[nq:2]The one that I run into the most is "Chris". ... that name, though, you don't know which way it's spelled.[/nq]
[nq:1]What about "Lesley" and "Leslie"? Are both equally female and male?[/nq]
They're pretty much the same as Mari(o/a)n. "-Ie" used to mean it was a man's name; "-ey" a woman's, but it's rarely used as a masculine name anymore, and either s

[nq:2]The one that I run into the most is "Chris". ... that name, though, you don't know which way it's spelled.[/nq]
[nq:1]What about "Lesley" and "Leslie"? Are both equally female and male?[/nq]
Sometimes!
As far as I know "Lesley" is always female. In my experience in the UK "Leslie" is usually male but there certainly are female "Leslie"s.
Leslie Ash

[nq:2]the name 'louise' has a guy's version and a girl's version but sound similar. Which one is guys' and which one is girls'?[/nq]
[nq:1]Louis (no e on the end) is the masculine form. It is, at lest in the US, pronounced either "Loo-iss" ... name, pronounced "Loo-iss" "Louise" (with an "e" at the end) is, in the US, alwaysa femeinine name. It's pronounced "Loo-eez"[/nq]
Maybe it would he