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[bree019.livejournal.com]

How do you feel about Sawyer....for a girl?

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[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling you're gonna get a lot of flack from the comm for this, but I LOVE IT! :)

[bree019.livejournal.com]

I don't mind opinions, whichever way they may go! :)

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I don't like it for either, lol.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Seriously, do we agree on any names? Even one? lol

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

LOL Maybe? Ill send you My List. ;)

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

sounds good :)

Mine was posted again yesterday or the day before lol

[hygher.livejournal.com]

I don't really like it for either sex.

[artfuldodger.livejournal.com]

I really, really dislike it on principle; Sawyer is suddenly a hugely popular name thanks to LOST. Everyone and their goldfish is being named Sawyer. Here's a Sawyer, there's a Sawyer, and another little Sawyer, Sawyer Sawyer Sawyer Sawyer Sawyer Sawyer....Sawyer.

And well, you get the idea. If you name a girl this, I think it would be flagrantly fangirly.

[bree019.livejournal.com]

Noted. Though I'm not at all a fan of Lost! ;D

[artfuldodger.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not saying you are. Just that it'd be assumed by a lot of people. :)

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I dislike it anyway, since Sawyer is such an occupation name to me. It's... a sawyer. It'd be like naming your daughter Blacksmith or Apple-seller, in my mind.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Appleseller. *adds to list* Got it. I'll suggest it as a possible name when my DH gets home.

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but NO. I love it on boys, but it's so strong and masculine. I'd never use it on a girl. Really, really, not my style, I don't like it at all. Sorry.

[cerise-blue.livejournal.com]

it definitely sounds masculine to me. i'd never use it as a girls name. it's adorable for a boy, though!

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

I don't care for it on either sex, but it's definitely all boy to me. ;]

[fairycoppie88.livejournal.com]

I don't even like it that much on a boy but I hate it on a girl. The name is very masculine and should be used in a boy only, IMO... besides with all the Lost hype right now... (although I very much like the character! ;) )

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

As boyish a name as David to me...so no. I like it though.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

If you like that sound, perhaps you'd also like the Russian name Zoya? It's got quite a similar sound but transcends the occupation name trend which may feel dated going forward.

I believe Zoya is a variant of Zoe, "life". I do have to admit that meaning is quite a bit more attractive to me than the one for Sawyer:

1: one who is employed to saw wood
2: any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Good suggestion. Zoya is kind of cool. and definitely not used often, at least in the US.

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

Definitely not. I can stand it on a boy, but I can honestly say that I despise it on a girl.

[cocinadelfeto.livejournal.com]

Awful.

My son is a Sawyer and I'm pissed because he was named before we even knew what LOST was, and now there will be five others in his class. *sob*

[artfuldodger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got a friend named Sawyer and he's not so happy with the name these days.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

i don't care for it. i say use harper instead.

[bree019.livejournal.com]

I love Harper.

[cherryrider.livejournal.com]

I like it on a girl.

[itcouldbelove.livejournal.com]

I personally love it. The first time I really heard it as a name, I heard it as a girl name. A celebrity's daughter, but still... I love it.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I don't like it at all, especially for a girl (sorry). Just that I get strong images linked with names.. and Sawyer sounds like both Sewer, and Soya sauce, mixed together. Leaves a very nasty taste in my mouth

[sayga.livejournal.com]

well, in the US we don't call it Soya, we just call it Soy, so that association would be lost to a lot of people here.

i also don't like it for a girl though.

[x-lostinyou.livejournal.com]

Haha, but Soy and Sewer together actually sound more like Sawyer than Soya and sewer.

[shyloh.livejournal.com]

I LOVE it! I like it for a boy or a girl!

[stacilia.livejournal.com]

I love it for a girl. Its very cute.

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

Boy name - great
Girl name - notsomuch

[maude.livejournal.com]

Too trendy.

[pap3r-heart.livejournal.com]

I LOVE it for a girl.
I don't watch Lost so I don't have that association.
I wasn't aware that it was getting that popular either.

[http://users.livejournal.com/---surfacing/]

not my style but i met a little girl named sawyer once and it fit her beautifully.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

love it.

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

Oh god I hate it. Absolutely awful.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

omg I despise it.

[ghost-dance.livejournal.com]

awful

[anapology.livejournal.com]

hate it.