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[secrettrack.livejournal.com]

Mason.

for a boy or a girl?

WDYT?

edit: babynames.com says it's a unisex name!

Comments

[babyjess8.livejournal.com]

Any names ending in '-son' always tend to appeal as boys names for me.

The only exception is Alison

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I like Mason on a boy. It ends in -son, so obvious clues right there.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Definity boy.

It's ruined my association for me though. I knew a little boy named Mason when I was a kid. He was a pick-you-nose-and-eat-it kid.

[secrettrack.livejournal.com]

haha i hate when that happens!!

i detest the name Hugh for that exact reason! that, and he used to tell everyone his dad was a cop, when everyone knew his dad was really a plumber.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Boy. Boy, definitely. There is nothing "girl" about that name AT ALL.

[cherryboomstick.livejournal.com]

Boy.

[secrettrack.livejournal.com]

i dunno. the more i say it to myself, the more "girly" it sounds for a boy.

i mean i totally think it's a boy's name, but maybe it wouldn't be sooo awful as a girl's name.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

boy. doesn't strike me as a girl at all.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Babynames.com can say what it wants. It's a boy's name.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I like it a lot for a boy, but I don't think I could get used to it as a girl's name.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Yes, this. Mason is just "eh" and pretty trendy, but I imagine white-trash-o-rama when I picture it on a girl.
This is probably because I used to babysit a Mason who was an absolute terror. A scab-picking terror at that. Ick.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

So...Allison is a boy's name to you? True, it was originally, but I can't help but think any boy who was named that today would be tormented every day of his life.

[secrettrack.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahah.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Ok, Allison is my only exception. I forgot about that one.

Madison/Addison/etc. still say boy to me.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I hate the name, I knew the most ANNOYING kid witht he name... but that being said. Boy, all the way boy.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Babynames.com is also the site that says McLovin is a real name.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

For a boy, if necessary, but I don't like the name.

It has bad connotations for me, being a fan of Jane Eyre hehehe.

[xpinkxamazingx.livejournal.com]

I have a cousin called Mason. It does not suit him at all.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

It sounds more masculine to be, but it doesn't have anything to do with the -son at the end.

totally

[pixi-ana-vixn.livejournal.com]

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my cousin Ann had a baby boy + named him Mason!
i guess it'd be ok for a gurl too, i never thought of it! i'm very into unique/unusual names :-)

<3

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I saw Jane Eyre and had to think for a second who Mason was. Yes, Bad connotation, but could be worse, like St. John.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Alison was not originally a boy's name. It was originally a nickname for Alice, so it's Alis-on not Ali-son.

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

I love it on a boy (I went to George Mason University!) but not so much on a girl. The whole -son thing bothers me on a girl, since it means "son of."

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

boy.

I don't like it. It's my exs best friends name, though, and I didn't like him.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

St. John's not as bad as Bertha Mason or her brother, I don't think! Not that like the name St. John either haha. Especially when you're supposed to pronounce it Sinjin. Blech.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

True, Mason is worse character-wise, but I didn't like St. John so much either. Every so often on here someone will mention they like the name St. John, and I just want to scream why?!? Even apart from Jane Eyre, it's just odd to me.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

BOY!

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I have a name book that lists Alison in the boy's section as well as the girl's and claims it was originally a boy's name.

And the -son generally means "son of" anyway, I always thought.