Would you consider these boys or girls names

[J3110]

We are currently set on the name Arlo for our baby boy due next month however I also love the names Sonny and Marley. Would you consider these boys names or girls names. I have personally only met one boy Sonny and no Marley's 🧐

All boys.

My two year old is Arlo. He is the most adorable little boy and his name really suits him. We thought we had picked a nice name that was easy to pronounce and spell (I have a daft surname), worked in English and German as we have German family and was not too common (I have a name that is so common it is more a description of a generation than a name). Within 6 months we met three other Arlos and we are in a small market town in Northumberland…

I know Sonny's and Marley's who are boys.

They're all boy names. I like them!

I consider them boys names. I know that people use Marley for girls, but I don't consider it a girls name.

I just heard two Mum’s of 1 yr olds agreeing that they both fancied Marley for any future daughters.
all i could think of was “Marley was dead to begin with.” 😱

All boys names to me. If I met a girl called Marley I wouldn’t think it was odd but I prefer it for a boy. Arlo and Sonny are very masculine to me and I would think it was a bit odd if I met girls with those names.

I know a woman called Sonny; her given name is Sonia but she rarely uses it in everyday life. She says people assume "Sonny" (if they see it written) is a man, and people who meet her or know she's a woman before seeing the spelling of her name assume that the spelling is "Sunny".

Marley is a surname, so unisex, but it skews feminine for me - maybe partially because it was super popular as a girls' name in South Africa about two decades ago, although sometimes spelled as Marlie or Marli - drawing from more traditional feminine names like Marlies, Marlene, Marla.

Boys names.
Love Sonny

I'd consider them both boys names

I'd consider them all male dog names

All boys names. I know one female Sunny

Really?? Never met a dog named Arlo lol. I have however met plenty of dogs named Jess, Max, Ben, Bella and they are all pretty common baby names to me

I'm not sure what you mean dead to begin with?

A Christmas Carol

@J3110 the first line of A Christmas Carol by Dickens - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19337/pg19337-images.html

Arlo and Sonny - boys.
Marley unisex.
We had Arlo on our list but quite put off by how many there currently are, it’s become very popular. Not sure if that matters to you.

I've met three male humans named Sonny and one male cat named Marley.

I have heard of a fair few female Sonnys and Marleys in the US but not the UK.

I had Sonny on my shortlist for ds but was worried it was a little too informal.

In the end I gave him a name I thought was lovely and unusual, only to see it become one of the top ten in the following few years!@jm9138 I think we unknowingly absorb things in the ether of the zeitgeist, iyswim.

OP, Arlo is a good, strong name and you know you like it a lot - but it's fine to consider alternatives, right up until you meet baby and firmly decide what suits.

I know several boys sonnys and one girl sunny. I know one girl and one boy Marley

Boys names.

I also know a pup named Marley but I also know dogs called Luna, Jenny, Max, Ralph, Jesse, Freddie and Archie (and many more human names!) so I don’t think it matters a jot.

Boys. I think Arlo is the nicest

Dogs names, male dogs

So does Stanley, Charlie/Charley, Finley/Finlay, Kingsley, Oakley, Leslie etc

All boys names but also quite soft sounding names. Marley is dog or a Christmas carol, Sonny just sounds like a nickname and Arlo to me is the dinosaur from a good dinosaur, although it’s become very popular now.

All boys but I wouldn't be suprised by a female Marley, I have just only heard it on boys.

Have heard Sunny as a girls name though, and a Suni short for Sunita. But Sonny looks more like a nickname for a son, so I would assume a boy.