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hey everyone,
my question is about can a girl get the name joey. io know there is alot of boys and girls names that could mean it could be a he/she. but i never heard of a girl name joey. the reason i ask is because i went to this form and check out the topic about the seven samurai thing. and i went to mainchi daily news. and went to personals and post an ad. and a girl name joey relpy to my message. i was surprise first i check babynames.com and it saids there are girls name joey. but i was wounding if it's american or a different country. i never heard of an american girl name joey. i hadn't got a relpy back from her yet. i don't know if she is in the same town as me or in asia. all i got is her e-mail address and i try looking for places to find out more about her but she has nothing on her msn proifle. her e-mail address is hotmail. does anyone know any sites where i can find out more about her. thank you for your time.

Ahem.
Josephine, American, Uk, Very english.
Joanna, American southey type a name.
Jade. yeah, there are jades that prefer Joey.

hey bad mr.sushi,
thanks alot. i didn't know girls name jade like to be called joey. i didn't know where the name joey came from. and how it became a boys and girls name. but do you know where i can find a free people search by e-mail? i like to find info on her. and her msn profile is blank. i don't know what time she will e-mail me back i don't know if she lives in asian or california. she hadn't e-mail me all day but i bet she has work and all. but in asia. nigth time here is morning there. well thank you again.

Joey Lauren Adams... famous actress from the Kevin Smith films and Married With Children, among many others. Do a web search, you might recognize her.

Well personally i dont think joey is a girls name. But you can name your child anythign you want, there isnt much stopping you, so its all up to the parents.

If she (assuming, of course ) is in fact Japanese, there's other possibilities as well:
1) Mis-transcription of a Japanese name (although I didn't find any likely candidates here)
2) She's chosen a Western name to be know as by non-Japanese people and:
a) misspelled "Joy"
b) thought "Joey" sounded nice and was a little shaky on Western naming practices (I knew a guy from Hong Kong who chose to be called "Bambi"-- the deer in the movie was male, right?); even though it's not an unknown name for women-- Joey Heatherington-- it is uncommon.

gunblade007 wrote:hey everyone,
my question is about can a girl get the name joey.

It's probably a nickname, chief. However, a knee-jerk reaction of suspecting it to be male is a good instinct to have when using the interweb as a means of starting relationships. Regardless of what they call themselves, there's still a good chance that anyone you communicate with is a hairy, three hundred pound, thirty year-old white dude, who lives in his mom's basement somewhere in Nebraska. The interweb is a wonderful thing!

Also remember that baby kangaroos are called "joeys", male or female...

hairy, three hundred pound, thirty year-old white dude, who lives in his mom's basement somewhere in Nebraska

baby kangaroos are called "joeys", male or female...

I sense a trend-- perhaps an upcoming revelation that the correspondant is in fact a massively overweight albino cave-dwelling marsuipial that spends entirely too much money on eBay to get Babylon 5 memorabilia

I'd have said "Star Trek", but it's been done to death...

Kind of reminds me when I corresponded with someone a while back...
I thought the name was feminine (incorrectly) because of the similarity with a name from Usagi Yojimbo... Tora Ami, translates as Tiger Rain if I remember correctly. Tora sounds like a feminine name in English...
Abayo