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[gregariouspeach.livejournal.com]

I just saw some twins on flickr. At first I thought it was two boys Cooper Thomas and Hadley Owen.

Except Hadley Owen is a girl! Is it just me or is this a really masculine name? I think Hadley could potentially be paired with something feminine ie Hadley Rose. But Hadley Owen, just really sounds like a boy.

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[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

owen would throw me off, but hadley is definitely a girls name to me. and it isn't totally uncommon for girls to have masculine middle names so i would assume right off the bat it was a girl.

[gregariouspeach.livejournal.com]

Well, there you go. It's just me. I have never heard of a Hadley girl before. But perhaps it is just not as common here in Australia?

[evryhrtbt.livejournal.com]

I assumed it was a girl too, I've never heard Hadley on a boy before.

Also, I really like Cooper Thomas.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

The only Hadleys I've ever heard of have all been girls, so I still thought it was a girl, but having a boy's middle name makes it sound, to me, as though the parents were intentionally trying to make the name sound masculine. (Like they set out to find a boy's name to use, as opposed to happening to like a boy's name on a girl, if that makes sense).

I generally don't like boy's names on girls, but if you're going to use them I much prefer them paired with obviously female names, like Morgan Rose.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Yuck, Hadley is the name of the scary town next to ours, so for me it is really more of a dog's name. If used on a person, I see it as blandly unisex but the Owen would definitely have me thinking boy.

That is a truly terrible name for a girl. :\

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

Hadley is a girl's name to me, absolutely. Owen is definitely masculine.

[hemlockheart.livejournal.com]

I've only ever heard Hadley as a last name, but I think it sounds masculine. I like it as a girl's name, but I agree, pairing it with Owen really sounds like a boy's name.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Michelle Branch has a daughter named Owen. I just naturally assumed that Hadley Owen was a boy, but it doesn't really surprise me that it's not. Hadley's ugly on everybody.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Considering Owen is a male name...