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[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

what do you think when you hear the name Harper?  do you think male or female?  thoughts in general ... i have been slightly infatuated with it lately.

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[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

my street is Harper so I think of that. Also our Prime Minister's last name is Harper and he's a douche so I have negative connotation unfortunately.

If I can get past those two factors, I think of it as a girl's name because of Harper Lee.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

lol

for what it's worth, I think the sound of the name is pretty.

[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

yeah - i have quite a few names on my "can not use" list because of negative connotations

[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

Agreed on the Pm and the douche part. Which is why I dislike the name.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same.

[taraemily.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love it, I would love to be able to name my daughter it but my husband hates it.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I don't like Harper as a name, for a boy or a girl.

[sweet-caro1ine.livejournal.com]

I think girl. Harper is one of my favorites but I could never use it as our last name is Hunter. Harper Hunter....just no. Such a shame :(

[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

oh that is a shame!

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

I think girl because I've met a girl named that but I hate the name either way.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Although I think I'd like it better if it were used on boys more.

[scarletladyy.livejournal.com]

I think of Ben Harper off My Family.

[dreamwriteremmy]

Female... and i think of two things -- one who plays a harp or the author of To Kill A Mockingbird

[cardiovascular.livejournal.com]

female. and I think of the 987402983709875 other little girls who are named Harper. :/

[cardiovascular.livejournal.com]

crrappp! I didn't mean for that to sound so bitchy. what I meant to say was, I'm fond of the name, but it's really common lately unfortunately.

[googlebee-ohmi.livejournal.com]

oh i didnt take it as bitchy ... i know what you mean. it has become very common for girls but i really like it for a boy ... when i was younger i thought harper lee was a man ... so i have always gone off that.

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

I think more female than male, but it is a pretty unisex name.

[inebriatedcharm.livejournal.com]

I really don't like it.. it's a pretty name, but it reminds me of Harper on Wizards of Waverley Place (played by Jennifer Stone) and she annoys the craaaaaap out of me.
It's a pretty name for a girl :)

[loanwords.livejournal.com]

I love it so much (as a girl's name), but I'm scared of it becoming super-trendy.

[notmybusiness.livejournal.com]

I like it, but I think of it as a last name more than anything. That being said, I've heard of a lot of girls named Harper lately (seems masculine to me, if anything). It's probably well on its way to becoming super trendy.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada.

That, or a really trendy baby name.

[julia-michelle.livejournal.com]

That's what I immediately think too. Which immediately puts a bad taste in my mouth.

[frost.livejournal.com]

I don't like it- it doesn't sound very nice.
Sounds like last name to me, but if used as a first...a boy comes to mind. I think it'd be ugly on a girl, tbh.

[babyjess8.livejournal.com]

I think Ben Harper, the musician.

I like the name, on a boy or girl. I'd pair it with an uber masculine or uber girly name rather than a unisex name, though.

[aballard23.livejournal.com]

I want to like it, but .. it just doesn't call to me, I guess?

I would assume it to be a boy name, though.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

It's NMS but I think of Harper Lee, which is definitely a good association. : ) So I think of it as a girl's name.

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

I think I picture a girl on first hearing it, but I don't think it would srtike me as very odd on a boy. In fact, I might like it more on a boy, because my main problem with it is that it sounds like 'Harpie', which isn't such a strong association on a guy...but maybe that's just me.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I went to college with a girl whose last name was Harper and that's what everyone called her. (She had a generic first name so it was easier that way.) It seemed to work well on her. Often people didn't realize that it wasn't her first name.

[hwar.livejournal.com]

Harper = girl for me (because of Harper Lee). I don't love it, it's along the lines of Piper which I also don't love. Also it seems that every Harper I know has a brother or sister named Quinn. What's up with that?

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

that's so weird because i used to loooove the combo harper quinn. haha

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

Definitely female. Someone gentle and quiet but smart.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

When I first started hearing that name, all I could think of was John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. :\ I couldn't stand the name at all.

Now, I picture a mix-raced little girl wearing lavender ribbons for some odd reason. I don't hate the name, but I'm not really a fan either. Part of me has started to want to like it, but I just don't. It's kind of like Piper, which I see someone has already mentioned, in that respect for me.