Unisex name craziness

[taimatsu]

On a community Im read someone just mentioned the US TV series 'Gossip Girl'. This programme has six lead characters, three boys, three girls. Here's the list of the actors' names:

Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, Ed Westwick

Apart from the most-likely-male Ed, which of these are the male and which the female stars? I'm guessing Chace might be female as I would expect 'Chase' for a boy, but other than that I've no clue. Guesses? Answers? Anyone? And isn't it kind of weird that most of those names - Penn, Taylor, Blake, Leighton - are far more common as surnames?

Comments

[cultureofdoubt.livejournal.com]

Betting:

Penn - female. The only Penn I know is of Penn and Teller, and Penn there is a male, but the name was supposed to be if he was born a girl, as Penelope or something. As it happened, he had a willy, but I expect most Penns are girls.
Taylor - female
Ed - male
One female needed - for which I bet Blake is female.
Leaves Leighton male, which fits with my suspicions, and the previously unheard of name of Chace as a male too.

[medland.livejournal.com]

Didn't Penn from Penn and Teller call his kid Moxie Crimefighter?!

[cultureofdoubt.livejournal.com]

He has two kids. Zolten and Moxie Crimefighter.

Fantastic man.

[medland.livejournal.com]

Kid in my Sunday School class wanted to call her new sister Tulip Monkeycatcher.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I knew someone once whose parents asked their three(?)-year-old child to name their new baby. The girl wasn't pleased at having a sister, and nominated "Custard". The parents, having rejected that, were foolhardy enough to ask again, and she suggested the made-up name Tiki. To (my astonishment at any rate), the parents accepted this (http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=504620044).