Fallon - boy or girl?

[mrsleomcgary]

Currently 17 weeks with number 2 and so far not really getting anywhere with names for boys or girls. Came across Fallon listed in a book under girls names and we both love it. For a boy.

To me it sounds quite masculine but google definitely seems to have it in the girls camp.

For the record we don't have any plans to find out the sex so trying to chose names for a boy and a girl. Fallon is so far the only name we both love,but if we have a girl we wouldn't use it.

Angus doesnt go with my surname.

Not sure why we like Fallon,we just do. We thought it was unusual but not weird.

The further I go into google the more results i'm getting for boy. A couple of American sites list it under both (but one says it's typically used for girls)

Why don't you use it if you have a girl?

I would say a sci-fi/fantasy bounty hunter. Uses throwing stars at range and twin daggers up close. Possibly a hint of elf in him giving him excellent night vision.

I'd think of Dynasty too. How about Allen for a boy?

Dynasty equals female

Is that a good thing tiggy?

Girls name sorry

Remember that it isn't you who has to live with the name!!

I'm sure you will think of something else. Why not use it for a girl - I think it is quite a feminine sounding name and by masculine at all!!

Girls name in the Archers. That's your radio 4 listening middle classes decided for you. It's a girls name

The further you go into google it's a boys name?! Really?!

Every single answer here has said otherwise.

Pray do tell where on google land it says Fallon is a boys name?!?!

One of those surnames which probably got used for boys and then became unisex in the U.S.? Thinking Murphy, Harper, Tiernan...

Definitely girl I would say.

It's an Irish surname originally, translated from O'Faoilain (little wolf apparently) to Fallon or Phealan.

Falls into the 'My granny's maiden name was Fallon so we used it to carry the name on' category. So could really be used for either but as suggested above, the Dallas / Dynasty character, Home and Away character (iirc) and the Archers characters are all female.

About 3 pages in you get loads of threads like this one,but not quite as over-whelmingly girl!

Though the second hit on page 1 is the boys listing for it on nameberry (which says typically used for girls but unisex). Basically what the last 2 posters have said.

Bloody dynesty.

If you like it go for it either way OP. I know someone who had Fallon as one of their two shortlisted names for a dd, and the other was Ellis - both girl names to me but the latter even less agreed on!

For a DS what about Flynn? Lovely and not too far away from Fallon :)

Never heard of the name before but can see why you'd think it was masculine. My immediate thought was 'phallus'. Can't see why you'd lumber any child with that. Sorry if that's blunt. It's nearly 4am and I can't sleep

Girl, sorry.

I second Flynn though-great name.

Flynn, Fallon.....both Irish surnames. When did Irish surnames become such hot property?

It doesn't sound remotely feminine to me!

As the owner of one that no one would use, ever I wonder that too Mitsy!

It sounds masculine to me - not that I was watching tv in the 80s. But if the rest of the world knows it as a female name then I'd steer clear. As pp have said, why not identify what you like about the name and work from there to find similar.

My son knows someone with the name Fallon who is a boy.
But the same could be said for a lot of names that are unisex, Robin/Robyn, Jesse/Jessie etc.
Surely one's perception of unisex names will be based on who you have known with those names and high profile telly programmes like Dynasty
For example, I went to school with a Jocelyn (who was a boy). Even though almost every single person I have read about or come across with that name since has been female, I still 'hear' it as a male name.

I immediately though Dynasty too, but then as your DC grows up the number of people who will still make that association will reduce

I also hear phallus, so as a boy's name it isn't great. No matter what google says, it seems like in the USA it's been a girls' name for a long time, so while in the UK it might be unusual enough to seem unisex, any associations people over there have will be girly. As long as your DS never travels he'll be ok!

I knew a boy called Kylie at school - I'm sure when he was little it was fine, but as he turned into a teen and the Minogue-ster hit the scene I imagine his life was suddenly made quite awkward!

Logan isn't a million miles from Lachlan..?

Fallon is definitely a girls name. Lachlan is much better for a boy.