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!?

It was exclusively a male name until the middle of the last century when some girls started to be given the name. The only thing I think about names is do you want to have to spell it out to people for ever? What really annoys me is girls who are called Leslie with that spelling!! It's a common name in my family; boys are Leslie, girls are Lesley and no other spelling will do! ( It's because we had the name as a surname ages ago).

Its unisex, my DS is a Hayden lol

It can be either I think

Hayden is a lovely name, suits male or female. Haydn is a crap spelling though and I'd assume you were trying to be 'quirky and unique' like when people change spellings of popular names.

Unisex name and a lovely one but with the E

It's a boys name.

And Hayden is a better spelling than Haydn.

Congrats on baby.

I know a little boy named Hazen (which is similar sounding) and I think its a lovely unusual name.
Could this be an option for you maybe?

Isn't Haydn the original spelling?

It sounds like Jaden and therefore a naughty boys name imo.

"" Haydn is a crap spelling though and I'd assume you were trying to be 'quirky and unique' like when people change spellings of popular names.""

It's the Welsh spelling, it means fire. Other Cultures exist outside of little England.

Yes Welsh, that's it. I have a friend called Haydn. Hayden is the silly bastardised spelling.

Haydn, spelled like that, is a traditional and well known Welsh male name.

More recently it's become used as a female name and the extra 'e' seems to have crept in. Looking at the use of the name historically, this seems to be actually the new variant, and seems more used outside the U.K. until very recently.

Lol at what my great uncle Haydn (who passed away last year at the age of 95) would have made of the idea that the 'crap' way he spelled his name was because his parents wanted to be 'quirky and unique'.

Wish people would do some reading on a subject before coming out with bullshit pronouncements!!!

Birdsgottafly yes being Scottish I'm aware of that, I understand what you're saying but I wouldn't know that is the Welsh spelling and at first glance, rightly or wrongly, that is what I would think until told differently.

Pick a name you both like where nobody has to compromise.

FizzyGreenWater no need to take offence, I've never seen it spelled that way, completely new to me so until being told differently that is the conclusion I'd come to, I now know it is a traditional Welsh spelling so now I know it isn't a 'quirky or unique' spelling. I still prefer the Hayden way of spelling it though, which is just personal preference.