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[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

 Skylar and Cassidy:
 
Do you think of them as boys or girls names? Why?

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[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Skyler is boy to me, I know Skylar is sometimes considered the feminine version.
Cassidy on the other hand is strictly feminine, that I know of! It's actually so feminine-sounding that it would be impossible for me to consider it a boy's name

[glassteapot.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Thanks for the input. :D You may be right with Skylar/Skyler. I prefer Skylar though, even for a boy.
And I think Cassidy is a boys name too... it certainly was originally, anyway, though like many boys names it's become unisex over time. I much prefer it as a boys name though.

[iamsurrealism.livejournal.com]

Skylar is a boy's name just because I know more male Skylars.

Cassidy is a girl's name because it's my sister's name.

I know people of both sexes with both of those names, though.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Girl's name, both of them, although I can see Skylar on a boy as well.

Skylar is girl's name to me, because someone's daughter was called Skylar and that was the first time I ever heard the name, and Cassidy is a girl's name to me...because the 'Cassi' in it, I guess.

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Neither. They're both terrible.

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

Skyler is boy's; Sklar is girl's.
Cassidy is definitely girls to me, though it could be masculine what with the Butch Cassidy association and all.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

Even Mary?

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Stacey, Tracy, Ashley, Brandy, Kandi, Carrie, Sherry ...all "ee" names, and all much more commonly girls names... I know that some are unisex, and some were orginally male names, but for the most part they're now used more on girls.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I associate ALL names that end with the -ee sound as masculine names not girls' names.
That's really interesting! I mostly associate -ee/y/ie names to be girl's names =)

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

*with girl's names.

[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

Skylar is just awful...I've never heard it used on a boy or girl, so I have no thoughts on it. Cassidy, while it is still awful, is a girl's name to me.

[briteflame3.livejournal.com]

I think Cassidy as feminine and masculine because it is my middle name and what my grandpa goes as. Skylar is feminine and Skyler is masculine in my opinion.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Boys. They're becoming unisex, but they are boy's names.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i have such contempt for the name skylar, i cant stand it. i really dont think it is either masculine or feminine, and i know both with the name (though the girls name is spelled schuyler) so i dont really have an opinion on that one. but cassidy sounds feminine to me.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

Both very female, for me.

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

I think they're both pretty unisex. I would personally use Skyl(e/a)r on a girl and Cassidy on a boy. I think of the Butch Cassidy connotation and I knew a really annoying girl named Cassidy. While she was annoying, she only ruined the female version of Cassidy for me. Plus, I like the nickname Cass for a boy. Skyl(e/a)r makes me think of the sky, and it just seems to...whimsical? for a boy to me.

[bewitchedxsoul.livejournal.com]

For me they just fit better on girls - mainly because I grew up with two girls with those names. Although I do know a boy named Skyler too..

[gangwaygirls.livejournal.com]

Skyler/Skylar is boyish to me; Schyuler always seems more feminine, but no one can pronounce it ("Shoo-ler" is what you usually get). I don't care for the name because there was a holy terror of a child in our neighborhood named Skylar and it always reminds me of him.

Cassidy... meh. It can be either male or female for me, but I don't care for it either way.

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

Definitely girls names. I don't know why, it must be association. Though I think Skylar would be okay for a male pet. Not kid though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_toasterhead/]

Skylar - unisex, but i prefer it on a girl
Cassidy - sounds like a dog's name to me for some reason :/

[clfrnahreicme.livejournal.com]

depends on the spelling of skylar.
to me skylar is a girl
skyler is a boy.
but i prefer it on a girl.

i think cassidy is for a girl, but hate the name in general

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I think Skyler/Skylar sounds more masculine but I'm not sure why. It's not really a name you hear in the UK.

Cassidy I can see on a boy or a girl, but it sounds more masculine to me because of the character in Preacher (even though it was actually his surname). I actually almost don't mind it for a boy, but for a girl I think it's pretty horrid. At least it's not spelt Kasidy though, like that character in DS9...

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

Skylar = boy
Cassidy = both

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

LOVE Skylar, but not Cassidy. Both are girls' names IMO.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Both male, but I'm very bleh about them.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I like Skyler as a girl's name. Cassidy is a girl's name.

[mahalia-baby.livejournal.com]

Skylar is all girl, imo. Cassidy is a boy's name to me, though, because of Cassidy Casablancas off Veronica Mars. :P

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

I prefer them both for a girl.