If I said my children were called...

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Georgia and Harriet- you would think...?
(My dd is Georgia and Harriet is front runner for girl name choice for dc2)

I would think you were friendly, middle class, not snobby or pretentious, easy going. Both lovely names.

That you are white, live in a big house in a rural location, that you are most likely a SAHM, or have been, or are working part time, or running your own business, and that your children are likely to be privately educated.......

There you are, complete prejudice! Of course, many Georgia/Harriet combinations are nothing like this at all, but if you are asking what image first springs to mind!

I'd peg you as white British middle class with conservative (small c) tendencies. Especially Harriet.

Nice names.

They are names on my list and we are a very boring MC household and I am a SAHM. So seems like I am adhering to the stereotype and I guess that's what those two names say.

What Rita said.

Honestly?I'd think you had really wanted a boy,and feminised the names you had chosen for the boys.Sorry,but that honestly would be my first thought.

That if you had a 3rd it would be Rebecca!
Just a family I know

Interesting responses thank you- you're thoughts are pretty much spot on weirdly! You are very intuitive bunch :)
My main reason for posting was to see how many people thought the same as Giltoris as this is my only reservation using Harriet. I wouldn't want people thinking that I'd been wanted 2 boys- I just tend to gravitate towards this type of name. I wouldn't have considered George or Harry as boy names although Henry I love.

In fairness,Wishful,my thinking might be coloured by coming from an all female family,whose names were all changed to the male 'nickname' equivalent by our father.Don't let me put you off!

Honestly don't worry giltoris I'd rather gauge genuine opinions now then someone say it after we've finally decided thank you for being honest.
Our dd's nickname is Georgie. (But this could turn into George at school) and would lean towards Hattie as nn (and hopefully avoid Harry altogether not a fan)

Yup, George and Harry. I am not English and don't understand the attraction of feminine versions of male names though there are a lot in many languages.

Harriet is the name we both agree on.
Edith is a possibility but we don't love it as much.
My choices of Camilla, Philippa and Catherine nn Kitty have been vetoed

I'd think you were posh, had a range rover and used private school. It's not the Georgia that does it though, it's the Harriet! Georgia and Alex, Lily or Isobel, for example, would take you more into guardian reader territory :o

I offer you Beatrix / Bea.

I know of two grown up sisters that are Harriet and Georgia, I have never thought of the names of being feminised names of male names - just classic, strong and elegant!

We have a Harriet and if the next one were gone a girl, she'd be Georgina

If you don't like Harry, don't go for Harriet. You may call her Hattie, all you like, but you can't stop her friends shortening her name in whatever way they choose.

(Having said that, I do know a Charlotte, who is always Lottie, but that is because Lottie was given as her preferred name at the school. She has never been known as anything else.)

Oh, but I do like those names. And, yes, they do "place" you, a bit. But, so what? You are who you are.

Both names are very sensible. Well done.

Both lovely names, the boy thing didn't even occur to me until you mentioned it, I wouldn't give it a second thought.

Didn't think of the boy version at all . I think they sound quite posh names.

Boy thing never occurred to me either. Or the MC with private school bit.

But then I know a Harriett who is a Harry and a very lovable down to earth woman.

And I know a Georgia (not related) who is not MC in the slightest, and is equally delightful.

Harriet is a lovely name. It wouldn't occur to me that they are feminised male names and to extrapolate from that - that you wanted boys. What an awful thing to think. Please don't let that put you off.