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If you heard the name Harper

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achristmasbaby · 23/12/2009 13:30

would you think boy or girl??

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LastOfTheMulledWine · 23/12/2009 13:32

Well there's Harper Lee isn't there which is my first thought? Nowadays though I'd expect an immaculately turned out American boy in slacks and a tank top.

MadreInglese · 23/12/2009 13:32

boy probably

TinselianAstra · 23/12/2009 13:35

To kill a mockingbird.

I'd porbably think it sounded like a boy's name, but could understand if it was a girl.

dinoroar · 23/12/2009 13:36

I'd think surname. Although if I had to choose between boy or girl, I'd think boy probably.

hannahsaunt · 23/12/2009 13:37

Harper is a girl. Obviously. Didn't someone famous call their dd2 Harper, recently? I was v ; dh won't let me call ours Harper.

HarrogateMum · 23/12/2009 13:40

my second cousin in Aus has a little girl called Harper, think its a lovely name.

Avendesora · 23/12/2009 13:44

girl

Paolosgirl · 23/12/2009 13:44

I wouldn't think boy or girl - I'd think surname

Pineapplechunks · 23/12/2009 13:46

Boy.

doubleexpresso · 23/12/2009 13:47

There's a woman who write for The Guardian, Zoe someone and her DD is called Harper. I honestly would have thought it was a boy's name, or like Paolo a surname.

claraquack · 23/12/2009 13:48

American.

pollywobblebauble · 23/12/2009 13:50

girl, american

bit too close to harpic for me

Hulababy · 23/12/2009 13:52

Probably girl.

There is a female character in one of the Disney channel programmes that DD watches - on Wizards of Waverly Place.

hellsbelles · 23/12/2009 13:53

Harper lee springs to mind here too....so girl obviously.

Hassled · 23/12/2009 13:54

I'd think girl. It's a girl's name.

nannyzo · 23/12/2009 13:59

boy

MrsMattie · 23/12/2009 14:00

Girl. Harper Lee.

Mistletoesnowman · 23/12/2009 14:04

Girl - as in Harper Lee. I love it too.

MamaLazarou · 23/12/2009 14:11

Girl. American girl.

auntycam · 23/12/2009 14:40

Definitely girl - after Harper Lee.

Bleatblurt · 23/12/2009 14:41

Boy.

StayFrostyTheSnowMam · 23/12/2009 14:42

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BunnyLebowski · 23/12/2009 14:42

I'd think 'the poor wee fecker'.

mrsvwoolf · 23/12/2009 14:48

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ABitBatty · 23/12/2009 14:56

I'd think Harpers Bazaar