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Hayden..

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SheWillBeLoved · 30/12/2008 12:07

Opinions please? Would you assume boy or girl? Just one of the names I have floating about that i'm not too sure on..

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CuppaTeaJanice · 01/01/2009 19:55

It's 70-something in the top 100 boys names for 2008.

I love Haydn - you will find that people spell it all sorts of ways though...Haydn, Hayden, Hadyn, Haden, Haiden, Haydan etc.

Not keen on similar names though, Jayden, Kayden, Aidan etc.

Sesi · 01/01/2009 17:51

^ Home and Away is the place I first heard it. Haydn was Pippa's son.

Re the Hayden vs Haydn spelling.

Hayden just looks looks a bit odd and Anglicised to me. But that's probably only because the few I have known all spelt it Haydn. It's nice either way.

sasamax · 01/01/2009 17:24

I think I would assume boy (was there not a character in home & away in the 80s called this?)

LoveMyLapTop · 01/01/2009 17:23

Like it but surely a boys name?

rrrayray · 01/01/2009 17:20

Would assume boy... but thats because i wanted to call bubba this if was a boy.... Its a girl... So holding on for next time...

ALthough our surname is H so HH might be a little much.. We shall see!

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SheWillBeLoved · 31/12/2008 15:14

Tis Kerry, I guess it's abit more common in boys over here though. I don't know either a boy or girl named it though which is a bonus for me!

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SheWillBeLoved · 31/12/2008 15:06

Pesto - he was a baby at one point but fair enough! I can't imagine calling a baby Ethel/Maude but lots are these days, personal preference/taste and all that jazz

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PestoHaggisMonster · 31/12/2008 13:34

It is dd1's headmaster's name. I can't picture it for a baby TBH.

stillstanding · 31/12/2008 13:14

I'm afraid I think it is rather awful. Sorry.

branflake81 · 31/12/2008 13:12

I was at school with a Hayden in the 80's and 90's. He wasn't very nice, so it has bad asssociations for me.

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SheWillBeLoved · 31/12/2008 12:22

I'm just not sure on the Haydn spelling.. it really looks to me like it has been misspelt! I think Hadyn could work.. but Haydn i'm not too keen on?

I think I just like the look of 'Hayden', i'm not worried about it being similar to Jayden or Kayden.. that didn't even cross my mind until mentioned on here! I'm not going to not use a name I like just because it's similar in spelling to something that someone else has called their child before I had the chance to have one

I think the harder we try to have a name that's 'different'.. the more common it somehow becomes? People will latch onto it because it's considered to be unique but don't realize that it then won't be for long.. hmph, my little rant for the morning done

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Blatantly · 31/12/2008 12:04

I love it too, as my ds is called Haydn. However, most people spell it as Hayden!

Wolfblass · 30/12/2008 18:11

Haven't heard it in a while and to be honest i am loving it!

I would to assume boy - never known a girl called HAYDEN or with that name! lol

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SheWillBeLoved · 30/12/2008 16:38

I don't think i'd call a girl it, it is quite a masculine name as others have mentioned. I don't know if I like the spelling Haydn though.. it looks as though something is missing or is spelt wrong to me?

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Sesi · 30/12/2008 16:36

I like it for a boy, really don't like it for a girl.

I prefer it spelt Haydn. That spelling also distances it from the Jayden/Brayden association which does slightly mar the name now.

janeite · 30/12/2008 16:25

I'd have thought it was a boys' name and don't like it.
As a girls' name, I like it even less, sorry. And I agree about the Jayden, Braydon thing.

whoingodsnameami · 30/12/2008 16:15

I thinks its bloody lovely, but it is my ds name though spelled differently.

ketal · 30/12/2008 16:13

Also, deffo a boy's name. Wouldn't use it on a girl. I like pretty names for girls and am not keen on masculine names, which I consider this name to be.

ketal · 30/12/2008 16:12

I used to really like this name (It was a potential on my list 6 years ago). Knew a couple of very nice upper middle class Haydns at Uni and so the name always had that nice sort of tone for me... But with the rise of Jaydens and Braydons and so on... it doesn't seem to have the same feel to it. To me, it now seems a bit more, well naff really. Sorry, but I probably wouldn't use it now. HTH

Nancy66 · 30/12/2008 15:01

It's a boy's name - not a particularly nice one in my opinion but especially not a good choice for a girl. it's quite hard sounding and not very feminine.

I understand that you don't like the old lady type names but I'm not keen on this.

thisisyesterday · 30/12/2008 14:40

i would assume boy.
i really don't like it, but that is quite irrational lol
i don't like aiden either, i have no idea why.. just don't like how they sound.

angelstar · 30/12/2008 14:35

I always think its a boys name and did consider it once for one of my children but where we live people drop their h's and he would always have been called (h)ayden which I don't like.

mumof2andabit · 30/12/2008 13:26

I automatically think boy only because the first time I came across it was on a message board and someone had chosen it as their sons name. Sorry that was a bit long and boring!

Do like it for a girl tho as well as I'm not keen on the ethel type names around now.

lunamoon2 · 30/12/2008 12:37

I think boy but may be both because of Heros.
Always thought it was Aiden tbh until I saw Hayden Christinsen in something.

I do like it but would never pick a name for my ds that could be construed as anything otherthan masculine, just my opinion.