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"  What&amp;#039;s in a name? These days, certainly not a gender.  Jessica Simpson appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show and hinted what has been reported for weeks now: She may be having a baby boy.  I probably don&amp;#039;t need to tell you that the pregnant celeb already has one bundle of joy, a 10-month old daughter named Maxwell Drew. Yes, I said a girl named Maxwell. J.Simp said she named her daughter after her fiance&amp;#039;s middle name and her mother&amp;#039;s maiden name.  So what if Simpson keeps up her own trend and names her son a name better suited for a girl (Lindsay? Leslie? You get the idea.) She wouldn&amp;#039;t be alone. Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale named their son Zuma, a variant of an Arabic girl&amp;#039;s name. Nicole Richie and Joel Madden named their son Sparrow, a (strange) name most commonly used for girls. And Victoria and David Beckham have a son named Brooklyn, one of the 100 most popular girls names in 2012.  Speaking of popular names in 2012, on the unisex names list (yes, that exists), Harper, Quinn, Rowan, Emerson and Elliott were popular for babes of both sexes. Girls have been named after boys forever. So why shouldn&amp;#039;t boys be named after girls?  As a girl named Megan Carson, I chose to go by only my mother&amp;#039;s masculine maiden name, Carson, because there were about 17 other girls named Megan in my elementary school. Although I often get invitations addressed to &amp;quot;Mr.,&amp;quot; it&amp;#039;s never been too much of a problem. Do you think it would be an issue for guys on the flip-side though? Want more from Carson? Follow her on Twitter. Photo credit Michael Rozman/Warner Bros. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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