History Main / TomboyishName

* {{Invoked| Trope}} by Wrestling/{{Chikara}} {{tag team}} You Can Call Me Al (Alere Little Feather and Allison Danger)

** There's also Chrys'tel, who's usually just called Chrys, but only by human standards.

* Ariel from ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', ironically, she is sent to a boys school (because of exceptional circumstances) and one of her (male) classmates is more effeminate than her. Also, it later turns out she is blessed with shape shifting abilities, so she could basically be anything, though her attempt to do "something interesting" and make herself physically male with them didn't work.

* Parley from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' isn't very tomboyish at all, but her first name is George. [[EmbarrassingFirstName She's deeply embarrassed by this name]], although there's a pretty good story behind it. Mainly, her father is a psychic and he filled the birth certificate beforehand. He got everything right except the gender, but they found it so funny that they decided to keep it as is.
** Not very tomboyish? She's introduced handing a random student his ass with a zweihander. [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Not to mention all the roughhousing she does with Andrew.]]

* In ''FruitsBasket'', Tohru is our main character. In a flashback, her grandfather wonders about her masculine name, and Kyoko says that Katsuya, her father, picked it to 'bring out her hidden flavor', like adding salt to something sweet to enhance the flavor. Also [[spoiler: Akito]] has a man's name.

* ''MidnightCaller'': Devon King.

* ''Series/{{Liveman}}'': Megumi Masaki was not only the first blue female, but the only female in dark blue tone. Funny enough, her actress is also named Megumi.

* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': Devon King.

* Actresses with Tomboyish names include BilliePiper, HaydenPanettiere, MichaelLearned, Creator/GlennClose, [[JamieKing James "Jamie" King]], JamieLeeCurtis, ChristopherNorris and Creator/SeanYoung.

* George from ''[[EnidBlyton The Famous Five]]'' (shortened from Georgina, in the first book she uses it as part of an OutOfCharacterAlert ploy)

* ''Liveman'': Megumi Masaki was not only the first blue female, but the only female in dark blue tone. Funny enough, her actress is also named Megumi.

* ''Midnight Caller'': Devon King.

* Since there were several "Makoto"s mentioned in the Anime & Manga section, there should be at least some mention of the one from StreetFighter III 3rd Strike. [[TheDanza Her VA is also named Makoto, as well.]]
* And yet another Makoto, from the [[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster IdolM@ster]] series, who becomes an idol in order to find a more feminine side of herself.

* [[{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]: Nikki Wong embodies this trope. Short-cut, purple-dyed hair: check! Grungy wardrobe: check! Sarcastic sense of humor and badass personality: Double check! Name that can apply to Nickolas but instead applies to Nicole: check!
* "AvatarTheLastAirbender'': 'Smellerbee'? That's a rather odd name for a young man." "Maybe that's because ''I'm a girl.''"

* Wrestling/{{WWE}} wrestler Mickie James is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Champion]]. Granted, this is wrestling, and stranger things have happened than a man holding a women's belt, but she is a woman.

** JD's original name was Joanna for the first three years of his life, as his parents were expecting a girl, and couldn't think of a proper boy's name for a while. Whis name was changed to John, many of the jokes about him are about how stereotypically girly he is.

* Michael Tree in the ''Ms. Tree'' comics.

* ''Picket Fences'': Had officer Maxine "Max" Stewart (Lauren Holly).

** When Howard Hawks hired Leigh Brackett to co-write the screenplay for ''Film/TheBigSleep'' (with WilliamFaulkner), he was surprised at their first meeting to find the writer he hired was a woman.

* Born a Stephanie, [[FleetwoodMac Stevie Nicks]] has gone by Stevie for most of her life. She had difficulty pronouncing her name when she was young, and the nickname stuck.

* Former [[RobZombie White Zombie]] bassist Sean Yseult.

* Actress JenniferJasonLeigh. Her first name isn't, but her middle name definitely is.

* Disney's ''Famous Five On The Case'': George's daugheter is named Jo (shortened from Jyoti).

* ''Step by Step'': In the TV sitcom, there is Al (short for Alicia). There is also a female character named Sam.

* [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Naoto Shirogane]]]]. This has a larger effect in fooling you because [[spoiler:up until her gender reveal, she's always referred as a young boy-detective and dresses like a boy too.]]

* Makoto and Haruka in ''Manga/SailorMoon'', the latter of whom is actually mistaken for male by much of the cast.
** The English dub weirdly averted this by renaming Haruka "Amara," a very feminine name which still leads to her being mistaken for a guy.
*** In some supplemental material that preceded the dub, Haruka was called Alex, which made more sense.

* [[spoiler:[[{{Persona 4}} Naoto Shirogane]]]]. This has a larger effect in fooling you because [[spoiler:up until her gender reveal, she's always referred as a young boy-detective and dresses like a boy too.]]