I have an abbreviated name that could be male or female (and had a very common maiden name so in the company of 150k people there were at least 30 with exactly the same name (plus An H brow how many who didn It Use the abbreviated form officially). I used to be the Finance Manager for a telecoms group of products and one of the product managers had the same name as me (and we worked in the same building). I would frequently get calls along the lines of "Can l speak to X?" "Yes this is X speaking. " "No X is a man. " "No I can assure you lam a Woman" . "I want the X who works on Analogue Private Circuits". "yes that is me". Depending on how I felt I could drag this out for ages....

lt was one of the reasons I charged my name when I got married.