Basic Trope: A tomboy having a boy's name.
- Straight: Samantha is a Tomboy and wants everyone to call her Sam.
- Exaggerated:
- Samuel is the manliest woman alive.
- Alice calls Samantha by her name, but she says, "Samantha is dead. Call me Sam."
- Downplayed: Sam has a boy's name, but is not actually too much of a tomboy.
- Justified:
- Sam just likes her name that way.
- Sam's parents wanted a boy.
- Sam's parents originally weren't sure what gender she was. So they decided to give her a unisex name.
- Inverted: For some reason, a girly girl is named Bob, so she insists on being called Robertina instead.
- Gender Inverted: Samuel, who is In Touch with His Feminine Side, is called Sammy.
- Subverted:
- Sam is very tomboyish, but insists people call her Samantha.
- Samantha is incredibly girly but goes by Sam, despite occasional frustrations with mistaken gender.
- Double Subverted: ...until she relents and decides to go by Sam.
- Sam turns out to be a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak.
- Parodied:
- The girl is called "Johnathan James Ironfist".
- A girl has a name so manly that whoever hears it spontaneously becomes more macho, but we never get to hear her name.
- A tomboy gets made fun of constantly by Alex for "being such a boy" and having a boyish name. Her name is Alice.
- Zig Zagged: Sam, a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, is sometimes called Samantha, and sometimes Sam.
- Averted: Samantha, a girly girl, 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."
- Sam was a man in the original work, but the creator or the executive decided to put Sam into Gender Flip process for wider range of demographic.
- The creators use Samus Is A Girl to better break preconceived gender notions.
- 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: Sam 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?"
Back to Tomboyish Name.
