Parker

[runninggirl85]

Boy or Girl name? (not for my baby)

:-)

[bridgetsmum]

Boys name, not sure if I like it, maybe

[CockyFox]

Surname surely? If not more likely a boy I think.

[fridayfreedom]

Nosey! Thunderbirds!

[meditrina]

Neither, unless you want the child to go through life being nn 'nosy'.

But if not in UK, perhaps that idiom won't be known. In which case better on a boy but I suppose possible on either.

[runninggirl85]

My friend has just had a beautiful baby girl..and named her Parker.

Seemed like a boy name to me so i just wondered what others thought.

But each to their own :-) and the baby is gorgeous

[Minty82]

I used to know a boy called Parker, so boy's name to me. Not a fan of it for either sex I'm afraid...

[squoosh]

Along with Piper, Parker would be amongst my least favourite of those American surname type name.

[JustBecauseICan]

Surname.

Nosey.

Tell whoever it is not to do it. It's horrid.

[evamummy]

Parker, Harper, Piper seem unisex to me. I'm not keen.

[AmandaPandtheNightmareMonsters]

Boy definitely to me.

I don't like surname names though, so maybe I am out of the loop!

[HotPanda]

Is she a fan of the program Leverage? There is a female Parker in that, but I think it is her surname maybe.

[sausageandorangepickle]

Booth's son in the TV programme Bones is called Parker. Sounds ok in that, but it is very American.

Piper and Harper as quoted above both sound more feminine to me.

Lots of people don't like 'frilly' girls names though, and the American surnamey type names are definitely not frilly - Kennedy, Mackenzie, Addison etc

[doingthesplitz]

Fay Ripley has a daughter called Parker. Mind you, her son is called Sonny so we will have to agree to disagree re taste in names.

[NadiaWadia]

I know they do use it as a girl's name in the USA. But it is HORRIBLE. 'Nosey parker' is the association most people in the UK would think of.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

I'd say boys name.

But I'd no more use Parker as a first name than I would Butcher. Occupation names aren't my thing.

[usualsuspect]

I know a boy called Parker.

[OatcakeCravings]

Wasn't there a Parker in Desperate Houswives? I thought it was a boys name.

[StarUtopia]

Awful name. I know someone who called their kid this and gave her a boy's middle name too.

Seriously. PJ for initials. Makes me think of nosey parker first and then PJ and Duncan.

Poor kid is going to spend her life correctly people/teachers etc etc.

[Hobbes8]

I always think of Phoebe's boyfriend in Friends, played by Alec Baldwin. Aces!

[Prictoriafeckam]

Dreadful.

[PelvicFloorClenchReminder]

Parker Posey is female.

There's worse things to be called I suppose.

[QueenOfThorns]

It's a pen!

[NikiBabe]

Boy.

I know a Parker. It suits him very well. I think when a name is in the abstract and not given to a child yet, people are more critical. But when I met Parker I thought nothing of it. It is just his name.

[BlackPepperCrab]

It's a pen!

This is my first thought too. Either that, popular surname.