Tomboyish Name/Playing With

Basic Trope: A girl has a boy's name. Such a character is usually a tomboy, although she does not necessarily have to be.
 * Straight: Samantha is a Tomboy and wants everyone to call her Sam.
 * Exaggerated: Sam is the manliest woman alive.
 * Downplayed: Sam has a boy's name, but is not actually much of a tomboy.
 * Justified:
 * Sam just likes her name that way.
 * Sam's parents wanted a boy.
 * Inverted: Samuel is called Sammi.
 * Subverted: Sam is very tomboyish, but insists people call her Samantha.
 * Double Subverted: ...however, later on she decides to go by Sam.
 * Parodied: The girl is called "Johnathan James Ironfist".
 * Zig Zagged: Sam is sometimes called Samantha, and sometimes Sam.
 * Averted: Samantha goes by Samantha.
 * Enforced: "We need to keep the computer's gender ambiguous until the Reveal. Let's give her a name that's slowly becoming unisex."
 * Lampshaded: "Oh, for...this is the fifth time this week someone's mistaken me for a guy!"
 * Invoked: A newborn girl's parents give her a boyish name because they hope their daughter will be a Tomboy.
 * Exploited: Sam uses her Gender Blender Name to successfully pull off Samus Is a Girl.
 * Defied: Samantha doesn't want to be a tomboy, and forces everyone to call her Samantha.
 * Discussed: "Honestly Sam, if you went by Samantha you'd probably confuse less people."
 * Conversed: "Why do tomboys in these shows always have male-sounding names?"

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