Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
It is not common but it happens:
Yeah, it happens, because some people are extra creative picking names for their children. Not long ago I've read a thread about picking name for a baby, and all agreed that Prizma is the best name for a girl. Come on! How can you name your baby like that? Why not the Triangle or Median?

Also when people take name from other culture they often don't care about it's origins and other picularities (and probably they have right not to). But in Russia Misha is a boy's name, always was and I hope it won't change.

The same annoying thing happened to nice Russian male name Nikita. Probably most people think a name ending with 'a' is a female one on default, but I realy cringe every time I see on TV girls with 100% male names.

In last Hannibal movie they made the same stupid mistake. The name of Hannibal's sister is Misha. I could buy it if they lived in America or something, but in USSR it was just plain impossible (well, the movie was unbelievable anyway, so who cares )