"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Depends, I only know Mallorys who are women so her seems appropriate. >> > In a British context "Mallory and Irvine" were two (male) climbers who > died on Everest in 1924 (tales of daring...), so it's easy to expect > (from this side of the pond) that 'Mallory' would be male. However he > was really George Mallory. > > Meanwhile that search engine's images shows far more female Mallorys, > so I've learnt something. "baby name Mallory" in search engine gave me several sites, most of them telling me that is a girl's name except for one. Didn't think of doing image search, but that's a good way ;-)