To think Hayden is a boys' name!? DH thinks girls'!?

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Our little one arrived last week. My current favourite is Hayden, but DH thinks it's a girls' name. If we go for it, he wants Haydn (but this is pronounced Hi-don but says he will say it as Hay-don )

Who is right!?

My only experience is "celebs", both I've seen both male and female with that name.

Unisex, Haydn is silly, he will be spelling it for the rest of his life. These drives me insane.

Its pronounced hay den. Lovely name and congrats

Haydn Gwynn female actress

I think your husband is right both I'm thinking of are girls sorry!

Why don't you just have Aidan for a boy?

I love it for a girl, not so keen on a boy not helpful sorry

There is a boy Hayden in my DC's school.
The other one I've heard of is Hayden Panettiere the actress.
I think that in the UK it's mostly a Boys name though.

It's unisex:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_Panettiere

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_Christensen

However, the people I think of when I think of the name are girls.

I would say that in real life I think of Hayden as a boys name. But the only celebs I know with the name are female. I'm not familiar with anyone using the spellings Haydn for a first name though.

Perhaps in the US it's more a female name as the ones I can think of are American.

Hayden is a boys name.

I know it as a boys name.

We don't like Aidan.

Hm, unisex? Maybe we're both right then

babycenter.com calls it gender-neutral

Haydn isn't silly

The composer was around quite some years before Star Wars or Heroes.

The only Hayden's I know are boys, but I have heard of it as a girls' name.

Congratulations!

Ignore that dodgy apostrophe!

Ah Jessie beat me to it ,

Haydn Gwynn is the only one I have ever heard with the name .

Girls name. The boys I know are Haydn and the girls Hayden. Pronounced the same.

I know it's unisex but I've only ever met boys with that name, and loads of them. It's really common popular around where we live.

It's both. The first boy I had a crush on was called Hadrian. Which is definitely a boy's name.

Hayden is a boy's name.

www.babycenter.com/baby-names-hayden-462585.htm

That has become used as a girl's name...

nameberry.com/babyname/Hayden

I love singer Hayden Panettiere from Nashville,
and I love this song...

But really Hayden is a boys name made popular for girls too, because naming girls with masculine sounding names is very trendy, and has been for a while, in a way that one would not name a boy with a feminine sounding name, at the moment!

It's a boys name in Australia, I know quite a few, all male. There are some US female celebrities with the name, but IRL where I am, only boy.

I associate Hayden as a boy's name. Home and Away many years ago, Pippa and Michael's son/stepson (I think?)

It's technically a masculine name, but it has some famous female namesakes like Hayden Panettiere, so for that reason, it could easily be used for a girl without many people giving this expression.

It hasn't quite made it to Madison or Meredith status yet, where you'd be mad to name a boy a name that was originally masculine.

It's a boys name in Australia,

Boom. Cross post, my Home and Away post fits with that.