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Parker

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runninggirl85 · 02/09/2013 09:54

Boy or Girl name? (not for my baby)

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Thisisashitshow · 01/11/2022 17:55

My nephew called his baby son Parker and I have had no respect for him since.

UrsulaPandress · 24/10/2017 06:18

Yes M'Lady?

Mclaren37 · 24/10/2017 05:39

Boy or girl. I think of it as a name first and foremost, perfectly usable. Nosey Parker didn't come to mind at all.

AuntieStella · 22/10/2017 18:55

You know, I really like the straight talking in the Names topic, where you can give opinins unfiltered by face-to-face manners.

But bumping a 4 year old thread seems a bit excessive.

TabbyMumz · 22/10/2017 18:46

Parker pen, or Thunderbirds?

greendale17 · 22/10/2017 16:24

Boys name

zeebeedee · 22/10/2017 16:21

It's a 4 year old thread - the girl named it will be at nursery by now!

NinonDeLenclos · 22/10/2017 14:01

Those American surname names sound ok in the US, in the UK they tend to sound chavvy. I don't like it for either gender.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 22/10/2017 09:44

Boy.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 22/10/2017 09:40

I thought Thunderbirds too.

If your friend has another girl in future, try to put her off the name Penelope!

BlackPepperCrab · 22/10/2017 09:32

It's a pen!

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

NikiBabe · 22/10/2017 01:49

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.

QueenOfThorns · 21/10/2017 23:28

It's a pen!

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 21/10/2017 23:26

Parker Posey is female.

There's worse things to be called I suppose.

FrancisCrawford · 21/10/2017 23:17

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Prictoriafeckam · 21/10/2017 23:16

Dreadful.

Hobbes8 · 21/10/2017 23:11

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

StarUtopia · 21/10/2017 23:08

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.

OatcakeCravings · 04/09/2013 17:54

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

usualsuspect · 04/09/2013 17:49

I know a boy called Parker.

Alisvolatpropiis · 04/09/2013 17:48

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.

NadiaWadia · 04/09/2013 17:17

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.

doingthesplitz · 04/09/2013 16:42

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. Smile

sausageandorangepickle · 02/09/2013 22:07

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

HotPanda · 02/09/2013 21:06

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