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Joss: can be either male or female, as a nickname for Joseph or Jocelyn (think: Joss Whedon, Joss Stone)

Perl: doesn't strike me as a name at all, and the language name definitely wasn't referencing it (more likely a reference to the shell).

Lua: doesn't strike me as a name either, and the language was named for the moon.

Ruby: is a girl's name, but the language was named for the precious stone.

Delphi: is the name of a city, though it does reference the (female) Oracle of Delphi (the language was designed to make Oracle databases accessible).



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My criterion for the list was whether or not I could find a well-known person with the given word as their birth name.

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