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Is this the name of a boy or a girl?

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QueenofmyPrinces · 05/10/2020 16:46

You hear someone is going to give their baby the name Lyric.

Is your instant reaction that it’s a boys name or a girls name?

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Livingthecovidaloca · 10/10/2020 18:44

Neither. I’d assume the child has been named by the type of parent that also decides to raise the child gender free, and never reveal the sex.

SourcePlease · 10/10/2020 18:27

To me it's a bit like asking "would you think the name 'Chair' is a boy or a girl". I wouldn't automatically think either.

Garcellesaidwhaaat · 10/10/2020 10:35

Lyric is a beautiful name. I'm too sober and sensible to use it. It would make a great YA fiction character name Smile.

I instantly think girls name, this is because:

A. I associate it with famous song writer Lyrica Anderson.
B. It reminds me of other girl names: Liris, Harper.
C. The ly letter combo seems to feature more heavily in girl names such as Lynn, Lynette, Lydia, Alyssa, Alya, Lily, Polly, Lyla, Evelyn, Marilyn, Kaitlyn etc.

HeronLanyon · 10/10/2020 09:45

jesstan1 indeed !!

jessstan1 · 10/10/2020 00:48

@HeronLanyon

Girl because as I read it I thought of Lydia and Lyra.

Not a ‘name’ to foist on anyone though, in my view.

Or even 'Lycra'! There's a thought.
HeronLanyon · 09/10/2020 05:28

Girl because as I read it I thought of Lydia and Lyra.

Not a ‘name’ to foist on anyone though, in my view.

emilybrontescorsett · 09/10/2020 05:09

No idea.

midsomermurderess · 08/10/2020 21:01

It could go either way given that it is not generally regarded as a forename.

whattodo2019 · 08/10/2020 20:53

Boy
It's a bloody awful/ ridiculous name

PurBal · 08/10/2020 20:52

Girl. Like Lyric Lewis the actor.

JM10 · 08/10/2020 20:47

Girl

Auto · 08/10/2020 20:46

Girl

notafanoftheman · 08/10/2020 19:22

Famous American child murder victim.

Kanaloa · 08/10/2020 09:43

I would say girl because the only Lyric I’ve heard of was a celebrity baby girl.

AbbieFB · 08/10/2020 09:34

He’s going to wonder when he’s older what he did to upset his parents! It’s a ridiculous (not a) name, but I’d have guessed girl too.

TOFO1965 · 08/10/2020 09:31

Girl, but it’s not a good name.

bridgetreilly · 08/10/2020 09:31

I would assume kitten.

AriesTheRam · 08/10/2020 09:20

Boy but no

Romemarie · 08/10/2020 09:04

I’d say unisex but sway more towards a boy.
I’ve known a male dog called lyric.

Chickoletta · 08/10/2020 08:59

Awful!

FourPlasticRings · 06/10/2020 08:23

Sounds like a boy name to me. But then, Eden sounds like a girl's name to me and that's unisex, maybe the same is true of Lyric?

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QueenofmyPrinces · 06/10/2020 08:20

I could understand it for a girl for the same reason a previous poster said regarding it being along the same lines of Melody and Harmony but I just can’t imagine a boy with that name - especially a fully grown adult male in his 30s for example.

But each to their own I guess.

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NataliaOsipova · 06/10/2020 08:12

Well, she’ll have to get used to people saying “What’s that? Eric?” from now on....😂

alexdgr8 · 06/10/2020 02:28

there's one in Hammersmith;
i'm guessing it's non-binary though.

Saffzy · 06/10/2020 01:44

Boy